At the end of last term I was mortified when we did a rotation activity in Year 5 and both teachers feedback about my class and how they worked together was very negative.
So although I feel that within the classroom and during specific group work tasks the children have made good progress about how to work together it is still far from perfect.
This term I will devote half an hour each week to specific collaborative teamwork tasks. Some ideas that I am going to use/adapt come from the following sites.
http://www.teachhub.com/6-awesome-cooperative-classroom-games
http://www.momjunction.com/articles/team-building-activities-will-keep-kids-busy-summer_0074763/
UPDATE
or 10 minutes a day might be more effective and realistic!
Talked to SD and RK yesterday about how this was going. They both gave some great advice and SD shared a couple of activities that he had done with his class with me this morning - getting children to think about positives about children in their class that they admire or who they work well with - not close friends.
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