Teacher blog - Team Tasks

One of the activities with GLAD strategies is team tasks. They involve students recreating some of the pictorial inputs and charts from a unit in small teams as well as creating their own chants or poems and some inquiry for topics they still want to learn more about. It is intended to reinforce information as well as provide opportunities for students to collaborate, delegate, and compromise when necessary because students have to make sure everyone gets a chance to help on each of the "posters" or "charts." Today was our first day this year and it was a great sign of things to come. Students had to choose colors that they would use on each poster and there were only 7 available choices for each 6 students and students couldn't use the same color. Students also were able to select a folder to keep their on-going team tasks with only a limited amount of choices. It was great to see students discussing options, conceding their own wishes when appropriate, and even seeing some rock, paper, scissors to problem solve.