TEAMWORK and COMMUNICATION

This skill therefore implies patience, kindness and empathy. Having team working skills means both being able to mediate and meet others, and being able to ask for help. This ability implies being able to share successes and difficulties, learning from mistakes, knowing how to take responsibility without spilling it on others, and knowing how to "blend" into the context. It is crucial to work together with others to know how to communicate and be prepared for improvement and self-correction. Cooperative Learning is a specific teaching methodology through which students learn in small groups, helping each other and feeling co-responsible for each other. Communication is the main tool to understand and engage in a relationship with each other and with the community. The communication process goes beyond the simple act of transferring a message: it implies the ability to "achieve a goal". Communication is also composed of fundamental para-verbal elements, the tone of voice, face, gestures, vocabulary, grammar. 

 

STRATEGIES FOR TEACHERS (Support the pupils to)

1. Promoting contexts where pupils are stimulated to focus on listening and reading the verbal and non-verbal messages of their friends

2. Teaching listening techniques 

3. Support pupils in clearly defining the goal they want to achieve in communication

4. Train pupils to a positive and proactive attitude even under pressure

5. Train pupils to give their point of view

6. Favor contexts where the group "wins" and not the individual

7. Support pupils in the correct use of social media so that digital communication does not replace the empathic relationship (what should not be communicated through the media) but can instead strengthen the contact (when the media arrive where we do not arrive, for example providing knowledge).