How to Instil the Values of Teamwork in Children?

 

From coming together in a sports team to putting on a class play, teamwork is an integral part of a student's journey. Children need to learn from a very young age the art of giving and taking turns and playing to their strengths to fill the gap. Teamwork is an essential social skill. Mastering the art of teamwork will help your child succeed not just at school but throughout their lives.

The top school in Greater Noida will give you instances where your child will be practicing team-building exercises.

Team-building at school

The initial years of children are an excellent time for children to cultivate the teamwork ethos. Schools organize many activities to help your child draw these values from inside and outside the classroom. Some of the activities include:

• Problem-solving tasks, where students are engaged in science or art projects such as building a volcano or creating a band-aid box.
• Partner or group work, with their classmates' help as difficult tasks, requires more people to join.
• Group reading, where children take turns to read different paragraphs from a set book.
• Music, playing simple instruments like keyboards, drums, recorders, and percussion to put together a piece of music and create soulful music.
• Taking part in outdoor activities such as going out hiking, building shelters, and lighting fires.
• Team sports such as cricket, hockey, football, Kabaddi, volleyball, and relay races.
• Debates, where you have to work as a team to argue for or against a particular issue.
• Participating in a school play or a class assembly.
• School forums, where students' prefects, a head girl, or head boy meet with the teachers to discuss school issues.
• Also, students collaborate with their classmates outside the organized activities playing team games like football or Tag at breaktime.

The best CBSE school in Greater Noida conducts the above activities regularly in the school to instill the value of teamwork in students.

Team-building at home

Here are some of the ways where you can support and provide opportunities to your child to practice their teamwork skills at home.

• You can play board games with your children like scrabble, charades, ludo, snakes, and ladders for developing critical social skills like taking turns, collaboration, compromise, sharing happiness, and losing together.
• Ask your child to cook with you or challenge the siblings to make a tasty meal where they follow a recipe and cook together.
• On the occasion of some festivals, you can even put together some concerts with siblings, friends or other family members.
• Play with your child where they can make a large collage or mosaic, solving puzzles, or making a LEGO city.
• You can even ask your elder child to help their younger siblings with their homework. This will help them in developing their vital skills such as communication and patience with themselves.
• Why not take your kids for fun outdoor activities where you can play basketball, football, building dens, or complete obstacle courses?

 

As parents, we have to help our children find their strengths and develop them. You can observe those skills in them and let them enjoy the activity where they could excel. If your child is finding it challenging to be a part of the team, help them build their confidence.

Preschool admissions are open now at Cambridge School Greater Noida. We help your child socialize and enjoy team-building exercises by organizing extracurricular clubs, where they get to socialize with a group of peers, expanding their social network.