This OER / CC-licensed video clip on leadership, management, and team-building is one of more than 400 OER videos on leadership and management, shot in more than 12 countries.
An intensive one-week introduction to leadership, teams, and learning communities. Introduction of concepts and use of a variety of experiential exercises to develop individual and team skills and develop supportive relationships within the Fellows class.
Intergenerational collaborative story creation lesson. Excellent for vocabulary building, speaking, imagination usage, team building. Can be used for all ages.
Games to help you learn and practice beginning French numbers, verbs and the names of days and months! Try each game at least once.
This lesson introduces the key concepts of cooperation, peer relations, interpersonal skills, getting along with others, and team-building.
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Presents basic concepts in group dynamics and leadership. A structured set of outdoor experiences complements classroom activities.
In this lesson students investigate the rich cultural tradition of murals in the Latino community. They will read about the painters who began the Muralist movement in 1920s Mexico (David Siqueiros, Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco) and investigate Muralism's resurgence in the United States in the 1970s. Students will examine and compare the social and historical context of these two movements and write about a mural which they have researched and viewed.
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Solving Complex Problems (12.000) is designed to provide students the opportunity to work as part of a team to propose a viable solution to a complex problem that requires an interdisciplinary approach. In Fall 2003, 12.000 focuses on balancing society's need for energy resources against its need to protect endangered ecosystems. Solving Complex Problems provides an opportunity for entering freshmen to gain first-hand experience with working as part of a team to develop effective approaches to complex problems in Earth system science and engineering that do not have straightforward solutions. The subject includes training in a variety of skills, ranging from library research to Web Design. Each year's course explores a different problem in detail through the study of complimentary case histories and the development of creative solution strategies. Beginning in 2000 as an educational experiment sponsored by MIT's Committee on the Undergraduate Program, and receiving major financial support from the Alex and Britt d'Arbeloff Fund for Excellence in MIT Education, the subject is designed to enhance the first-semester freshman experience by helping students develop contexts for other subjects in the sciences and humanities, and by helping them to establish learning communities that include upperclassmen, faculty, MIT alumni, and professionals from many walks of life. In Fall 2003, students from the Class of 2007 were challenged with "Mission 2007": To design the most "environmentally correct" strategy for oil exploration and extraction in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR); and To perform a cost-benefit analysis in order to evaluate whether or not the hydrocarbon resources that might be extracted from beneath ANWR are worth the environmental damage that might result from the process.
The Team Project has the goals of (1) developing teamwork and leadership skills and (2) learning from the analysis of a change initiative in a real-world company using concepts from other core courses. This class has no regular class schedule or weekly readings. Almost everything is oriented around your team and your project, with only a few deadlines. Each team is responsible for analyzing a recent, ongoing, or anticipated initiative at a real company. Examples might be a strategic reorientation, organizational restructuring, introduction of a new technology, or worker participation program. From the course home page: This course is closely integrated with other MBA core classes: readings are assigned through Organizational Processes (15.311) and oral presentations are given in Communication for Managers (15.280).
Teampedia (www.teampedia.net) is a free, searchable, and easily updatable collaborative encyclopedia of team building resources, and icebreakers that anyone can edit. This site is designed for a wide audience including: teachers, students, team leaders, trainers, managers, camp directors, counselors, and youth groups.
