Teamwork & collaboration

Teamwork & Collaboration

Teamwork & Collaboration involves building collaborative relationships, products, and services with others who represent diverse cultures, races, ages, genders, religions, abilities, lifestyles, and viewpoints. Developing this competency includes working within a team structure as well as negotiating and managing conflict.

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Each core competency is divided into three levels:

  • Involved students know the indicator or the criteria for demonstrating it. They can talk about it, write about it, describe it or explain it.
  • Engaged students can perform or demonstrate the indicator or criteria; that is, they can do it.
  • Leading students are innovating, extending, transforming, showing initiative, integrating, or collaborating.

Below are indicators and examples of competency at each level.

Involved-level Competency

Involved-level Teamwork & Collaboration Badge

Competency Indicators

How might someone demonstrate this competency?

  • Describes reasons for displaying a positive attitude towards group work and the shared responsibility of contributing towards a common goal
  • Explains reasons for using team norms and roles when working towards a shared objective
  • Expresses the value of diversity and inclusiveness in group work
  • Recognizes instances of conflict
  • Contributes ideas and listens to the contributions of others

Examples

What are some specific ways this competency might be demonstrated?

  • Comments in an online community about the value of following the rules
  • Tells a new trades student why they need to follow safety protocols
  • Messages a friend to relay something interesting that they learned from an international student
  • Observes tension between two teammates
  • Adds original ideas to a discussion at a fundraising club meeting

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Engaged-level Competency

Engaged-level Teamwork & Collaboration Badge

Competency Indicators

How might someone demonstrate this competency?

  • Displays a positive attitude towards group work and the shared responsibility of contributing towards a common goal
  • Puts the use of team norms and roles into practice when working towards a shared objective
  • Participates in diverse and inclusive groups
  • Identifies conflict and contributes towards mediation or resolution
  • Offers suggestions that build on the ideas of others

Examples

What are some specific ways this competency might be demonstrated?

  • Praises team members for their efforts and equally shares the workload in a group project
  • Ensures the tools they use are put away properly so tools will be available for the next student
  • Volunteers to help organize a festival that celebrates international culture
  • Observes tension between two teammates and asks them if they would like to talk about it
  • Likes another club member’s fundraising idea and mentions resources that might help

Leading-level Competency

Leading-level Teamwork & Collaboration Badge

Competency Indicators

How might someone demonstrate this competency?

  • Adjusts to fill a variety of roles (contributor, lead, support) in group work
  • Initiates and promotes team norms and roles when working towards a shared objective
  • Advocates for diverse and inclusive participation in collaborative work
  • Identifies and addresses conflict while maintaining active engagement until mediation is successful and a resolution reached
  • Synthesizes and refines suggestions of others to offer helpful ideas and solutions that contribute towards the common goal

Examples

What are some specific ways this competency might be demonstrated?

  • Takes a turn being the recorder and leader at club meetings
  • Creates a firearms safety video for the upcoming field trip
  • Encourages an older classmate to join the group project
  • Observes tension between two teammates and talks to the teammates, first separately and then together, until the conflict is resolved
  • Likes another club member’s idea and offers to work on the committee to develop the plan