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Integrating Career Readiness into Your Courses: Part I ->Teamwork/Collaboration  

Post what you've learned about this topic and how you intend to apply it. Feel free to post questions and comments too.

Teamwork increases productivity.

Teamwork is key for career success and involves communication and respect. I plan to use group activities that promote listening and cooperation.  I liked the suggested square box blindfolded team building exercises idea.  I will definitely use that.  

Effective team collaboration on a project not only leads to individual goal needs but helps with communication skills, team building skills for the workforce, and also how students can learn from eachother in the project/lesson at hand 

Teamwork is of significant value in both personal gain and workplace success. 

To me, team spirit means “working together to grow together.” When every team member understands that growth will be shared equally, they’re more willing to carry their fair share of the load. This mindset not only fosters collaboration but also drives the team toward success.

The work environment is the most popular place where we assume only team work exist. What Students fail to learn\realize in higher education is team work also exist in the class room.  There are many ages, demographics and stages of life persons who also need to get along in a group\educational setting.  As an Instructor, I got a "aha" moment of how important it is to lay the foundation of what "team work" really is even in the educational stage.  the students have the same goal to graduate and level-up in life. 

This course has taught me how to prioritize my time in my classroom and find ways to communicate with my students. There is so little time to accomplish our lesson plan and get to meetings . But for this year, I will use what I learned so that my students are able to communicate with each other effectively

Teamwork/ Collaboration      Verona!

As a teacher who has the opportunity to work alongside my colleagues every day, I have found this course very refreshing and ground-breaking.  (Teamwork)  As one of my team members, my job is to ensure that I am capable of communicating clearly, understanding that I am here for my team whenever they call on me. Not only to be there, but also to respect each other.

This course has taught me to be more efficient with my time. Critical thinking is not just a skill; it is also a habit that we formed to help our team solve problems.

Teamwork is crucial in today's workplace. It occurs in most every job on some level.  Students must learn how to communicate and work together in a team for a common goal/purpose.  Most students hate group/team work, but we must continue to implement these types of projects in our classes as it is a real life skill that they must develop and be able to use.

The importance of encouraging teamwork with defined goals for each person in the group.

Team building:

What i have learned-I particularly liked the concepts from the Tuckman model of Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing.

Teaching students effective team building and functioning within a team will be vital for their professional life.  In medicine effective team work can improve patient outcomes, it can make communication more effective, and it will foster supportive environments for HC professionals.  Effective teamwork leads to better decision making, reduction of errors, and increased job satisfaction.    

How I will implement this-we utilize this method routinely in both our didactic and lab teaching.  We want to see each students ability to work within a team and how effective, with guidance that team can be.

I’ve learned that fostering teamwork and collaboration helps students develop essential interpersonal and communication skills for real-world success. I plan to implement more group-based activities and peer-led projects to encourage active participation and shared responsibility.

Teambuilding is an important concept in the Career Education environment as it is a necessary concept to performance within a corporation or company.

During our team based cooking competitions I encourage students to communicate and work together to create a dish which improves their teamwork skills however I now believe that I interject too quickly without trusting that the group will overcome challenges within the group.  

Group projects are great when parameters are in place so all team members have a role or the opportunity to define roles.

TEAMWORK is vital in any workforce! 

The course reinforces the team work and good verbal and written communication.

Teamwork will always be a vital aspect in the work environment because it goes back to the foundation of community. Everything cannot be done by one person and no one person has all the answers to challenges. Teamwork enforces collaborations and fostering new ideas

Effective teamwork in the classroom fosters collaboration, enhances problem-solving skills, and promotes a sense of shared responsibility among students.

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