Formative Task
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Manage a Team
FORMATIVE TASK
MANAGE A TEAM
Time Frame: 1-3 hours
Common Core Standards Assessed: Varies by performance task and content
Teacher Notes
Description
How do you ensure your supporters, volunteers, and team
Students often struggle with
accomplish their workload and goals?
collaboration, as they may not
Plan your work with your supporters to ensure that the project is
have the tools they need to
successful and everyone works together as a united team.
communicate with one another
or resolve disagreements
productively.
I Can Statements
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I can:
and Quality
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Criteria
Identify and apply specific leadership strategies to
manage a team
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Develop a plan for managing a team that includes
specific information about how to deal with key aspects
of interpersonal relationships, such as motivation,
training, and recognition
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I will know my plan for managing the team is of high quality if
it:
Formative Task
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Manage a Team
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Identifies specific leadership strategies to manage the
team
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Attends to key aspects of interpersonal relationships
such as motivation, training, and recognition
Suggestions for Assessing Student Readiness to Move Forward:
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Confer with students, asking probing questions about their plan
for managing a team to gauge how well they meet the quality
criteria.
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Ask students to describe their leadership or management plan,
and to explain (orally or in writing) how the quality criteria are
met.
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Ask students to self-evaluate their work after completing one of
the activities below.
Possible
Activities
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Have students participate in an experiential exercise that
This formative task focuses on
requires teamwork and leadership skills (see resources below).
helping students learn about
Following the experience or activity, have students write and
the interpersonal skills that are
then share their responses to questions like these:
necessary for managing a team.
o
What leadership qualities were necessary from members
of the team and yourself to ensure success on the
Manage a Project, which
activity?
focuses primarily on
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Manage a Team
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What made teamwork difficult?
determining and assign
o
How will leadership be necessary in ensuring your event
responsibility for specific parts
is successful?
of a project, complements this
How will teamwork be necessary in ensuring your event
formative task.
o
is successful?
o
What did you learn today that you can apply to ensuring
your event is successful?
The responses can then be used as the basis for creating a
rubric or anchor chart for effective leadership.
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Give students a mini-lesson on the key aspects of managing a
team of peers or volunteers.
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Have students create a plan that addresses the key areas in
working with volunteers, including areas such as motivation,
schedules, task assignment, training, acknowledgement and
appreciation, and evaluation and support for the team.
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Manage a Team
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Resources
Resources for Teaching Students about Leadership
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The Student Leadership Challenge resources:
http://goo.gl/ClUDqg
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What makes a leader? http://goo.gl/9Fxh0E
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Defining and Promoting Teamwork in the Classroom:
http://goo.gl/k8wbGx
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VALUE Rubric for Teamwork (registration required):
https://goo.gl/T7YMty