Cisco GPS - Building a Great Team

Cisco GPS - Building a Great Team

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Lesson summary

Students explore the benefits and challenges of teamwork. They begin by reflecting on their experiences of positive and challenging teamwork experiences. They then explore how the Global Problems Solvers team is made up of people with different skills and personal qualities, and they reflect on how or why these differences are important or valuable to teams. Students then think about their own skills or personal qualities and how these might be important or valuable to teams. Finally, they work collaboratively to reflect on some of the challenges that are common to teamwork and develop a set of teamwork guidelines for overcoming these challenges that can be used throughout the rest of this unit for any group activities.

Learning intentions:

Students will...

  • recognise the range of personal qualities and skills that are important and valuable when working in teams
  • understand the benefits and challenges associated with working in teams
  • recognise some of the ways these challenges can be overcome

Success criteria:

Students can...

  • work individually and collaboratively
  • participate in class and group discussions
  • generate and communicate solutions
  • think critically about working collaboratively

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Australian curriculum content descriptions: 

Year 5 HASS:

  • Work in groups to generate responses to issues and challenges (ACHASSI102)
  • Reflect on learning to propose personal and/or collective action in response to an issue or challenge, and predict the probable effects (ACHASSI104)

Year 6 HASS:

  • Work in groups to generate responses to issues and challenges (ACHASSI130)
  • Reflect on learning to propose personal and/or collective action in response to an issue or challenge, and predict the probable effects (ACHASSI132)

Syllabus outcomes: GE3-4

General capabilities: Personal and Social Capability

Relevant parts of Year 5 HASS achievement standards: Students work with others to generate alternative responses to an issue or challenge and reflect on their learning to independently propose action

Relevant parts of Year 6 HASS achievement standards: Students collaboratively reflect on their learning to propose action in response to an issue or challenge

This lesson is part of the wider unit of work Cisco Global Problem Solvers – HASS – Years 3 & 4

Time required: 60 mins

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – lead students in guided discussion, assist students in creating teamwork guidelines

Resources required

  • Device capable of presenting a website to the class
  • Group Roles factsheet
  • Paper and pens/pencils
  • Student Worksheet – one copy per student

Skills

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

  • Communication
  • Critical Thinking
  • Collaboration
  • Social Skills

Additional info

These lessons have been developed in partnership with Cisco. Cisco believes that our future will be defined by global problem solvers – global citizens ready to thrive in a connected and digital future by thinking like entrepreneurs, innovating like technologists, and acting as agents of social change.

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