Ms. Kestin’s:
Physical Education
Adventure
Canoga Park High School,
Canoga Park Ca.
Beach Boys - I Get Around.mp3
New sl ett er Jun e 25, 2005
Vol u me 1, Issue 1
Team Building Basics
Teaming Together:
What is A Team?
A team is a group of people who come
together temporarily to achieve a purpose.
There is no magic formula for "building a
team". Teams are organic - they grow and
change - but you can study how teams work
and this affords you greater capability in
helping a team learn how to work effectively.
standards.
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Animals and plants gather together in
groups and work together in order to help
each other (and ultimately themselves) to
reach goals that would have been out of
reach for a single individual.
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A team is a group of people who come
together temporarily to achieve a purpose
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Teams are organic and involve chemistry - they
grow and change - so you need to make use of
the opportunities that change offers when it
comes to facilitating team development.
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The closer the correspondence between team
goals and individual goals, the greater the sum
of individual motivations for succeeding
together.
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The closer the correspondence between team
goals and individual goals, the greater the sum
of individual motivations for succeeding
together.
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Team building is tied to personal development - team development requires members
individual team members to grow and develop - as an individual's personal growth unfolds, so
too does their capacity to participate in and
thrive in group situations.
Team Quote:
Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.
- Henry Ford
What does your team
look like?
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This Week’s Assignment:
Have You Ever…
This an active, fun way to explore
and celebrate the rich diversity of
experiences that different people bring
to any group.
 Have you ever lived overseas for
more than 1 year?
 Have you ever sung karaoke?
 Have you ever been without a
shower for more than 2 weeks?
 Do you have both a brother and
a sister?
Stages of group development
1. Forming: The group comes together and
gets to initially know one other and form as
a group.
2. Storming: A chaotic vying for leadership
and trialing of group processes
3. Norming: Eventually agreement is
reached on how the group operates
(norming)
4. Performing: The group practices its craft
and becomes effective in meeting its
objectives.
5. Adjourning: The process of "unforming"
the group, that is, letting go of the group
structure and moving on.
 Have you ever ridden a horse?
 Have you ever eaten frogs' legs?
 Can you speak 3 or more
languages?
 Have you swum in 3 or more
different oceans?
 Have you broken 3 or more
bones in your body?
 Have you done volunteer work
sometime in the last month?
Why Project Adventure in
Physical Education?
 Have you ever had a close
relative who lived to over 100?
With Adventure-based physical
education programming, all
students feel included in the
activities. There is freedom to
 Have you ever cooked a meal by
yourself for more than 20
people?
play without penalty. There are
activities that 'level the playing
field,' calling on students to use
 Have you ever been parachuting
or done a bungee jump?
the full range of their physical,
emotional and cognitive skills.
 Can you click your fingers on
your non-dominant hand?
The non-traditional athlete can
excel and the athletically gifted
can be challenged in new and
exciting ways.”
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Jump RopeJ for Fun & Fitness
Top Reasons For Rope Jumping.
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An excellent for the upper body as well as the lower body.
A great weight reduction/maintenance tool.
The single most beneficial exercise for improvement of fitness level and athletic ability.
Easy to learn and can be done almost anywhere.
SOCIAL BENEFITS
• Making new friends.
• Expanding on new friendships.
• Choosing to work individually,with a
friend,or in a small group.
• Teamwork.
• Cooperation.
• Helping others.
• Setting individual, partner and group
goals.
• Having fun with classmates.
• Self Confidence.
MUSIC APPRECIATION
• Based on your individual ability to choose music
that has appropriate language and context.
• Learn to develop an ear for the appropriate beat
and rhythms.
• Listening to some of your favorite music.
• Matching beat and rhythms of music to jump rope
skills of choice.
CREATIVITY
• Choosing music that is appealing to you.
• Developing your own jump rope routines based on the
jump rope skills that you can perform.
• Developing jump rope routines based on individual,
partner or group work activities.
• Use of single, short speed ropes while jumping in a single
long rope and/or Double Dutch.
• Combination of many jump rope skills that one can
successfully perform.
Thank you web sites!
Special thanks are due the following web sites:
http://www.wilderdom.com/teambuilding/basics.html
http://lincoln.midcoast.com/~wps/pewriting/introduction.htm
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