Research has shown that cooperative education helps students learn more thoroughly and retain longer. Any academic lesson can be used with the components of the EnTeam process to produce a more creative learning environment. For example, weekly vocabulary words, arithmetic problems or geography concepts can be plugged into the EnTeam framework that will allow more learning to take place as the students work in teams. Thus, students will bring out the best in each other, have more fun and retain more knowledge. This is a win-win situation for the students, as well as, for the teachers and education.

Currently, EnTeam is facilitating at the Saturday Enrichment Academy in a 21st Century Project in the Ferguson-Florrisant School District in St. Louis, MO. Each Saturday the students participate in an EnTeam game and an academic activity that are tied into the MAP (Missouri Academic Proficiency) standards. The students are learning how to win together by strategizing ways to increase their knowledge (score) and by debriefing the experience to see what worked and what didn’t. Hopefully, the students then will be able to apply the skills of cooperating together and bringing out the best in each other to the many experiences in their daily lives. (See the “Academic Games” page for other classroom games.)

EnTeam Games
EnTeam games are cooperative learning activities that develop critical thinking skills.These games help students learn faster, retain longer, and have more fun as they study.  EnTeam games have many benefits in the classroom:
• The teacher can quickly turn a lecture into a cooperative learning game that is fun and academically rigorous.
• Students have a natural desire to socialize, and EnTeam games channel this social instinct into productive uses in the classroom.
• Students are less disruptive when their curiosity is stimulated and they are having fun learning through EnTeam games.

EnTeam Services
EnTeam offers workshops and in-class assistance for teachers who want to develop more cooperative learning activities. Teachers see ways they can turn their lesson plans into exercises that increase academic performance. The EnTeam games connect curriculum with the Show-Me Standards. EnTeam facilitators work with teachers after the workshop to plan and conduct cooperative learning activities in the classroom.