Professional Development
Let us EnTeam your team! Confidence, collaboration, teamwork, and trust are just some of the results of EnTeam’s professional development workshops. EnTeam facilitators provide two types of professional development for educators: In-Class Workshops and Staff In-Service Workshops. In these workshops, educators play the games with their colleagues or students in collaboration with an EnTeam facilitator.
In-Class Professional Development
EnTeam staff co-facilitates with educators on site playing and leading games with students. By being in the classroom for these workshops, educators witness how EnTeam Games engage students in helping each other succeed.
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Benefits of In-Class Professional Development Workshops
- Educators experience how EnTeam Games encourage students to study together and keep each other on task.
- Educators gain skills in encouraging communication, cooperation, and teamwork in their students.
- Educators broaden their approach to lesson plans and assignments
- Educators are empowered to design a curriculum that requires higher order thinking skills.
- Educators learn the theory and practical aspects of cooperative learning, including how to measure cooperative performance.
- Students learn to solve problems collaboratively.
- Students bring out the best in others creating a kind and productive classroom environment .
“I like that the goal of the games is for everyone to succeed. It is great to teach children how to manage their own feelings, while giving them awareness to care about others well-being which helps them truly handle conflict.”
“By turning traditional competitive games into EnTeam games, boys and girls recognize the value of others and the contribution they can make.”
“Youth gained respect, open-mindedness, and comfort in talking and interacting with students from other faith-based schools, as indicated by the youth, parents, and school personnel.”
Staff In-Service Professional Development
EnTeam facilitators introduce educators to EnTeam Games, the win-win mentality, and the benefits of teaching through cooperative activities. This training brings staff members together in playing collaborative games and in planning how to incorporate them with their students.
Benefits of a Staff In-Service Professional Development workshops.
- Educators are introduced to a richer form of cooperative learning
- Staff members strengthen collaboration and cooperation and build professional respect and teamwork among one another
- Educators learn to measure cooperative performance which encourages students to help each other master the curriculum and stay on task.
- Classrooms are more effective and successful through the use of EnTeam Games.
