Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Extreme Teamwork

Throughout the school year here at CATEC our focus is two-fold. First, we strive to give our students specific technical skills that they may apply in the workplace. Second we work hard to instill in them the "soft skills" also necessary for the workplace, here at CATEC we call them WORKPLACE SKILLS. Amongst those "soft skills" teamwork ranks very high, and it is something that the Horticulture/Landscaping students get lessons in almost everyday.
Today we watched a video clip from the History Channels Ax Men, (episode 1 Man v. Mountain), that I felt demonstrated teamwork in an extreme situation, but also showed teamwork skills that could be applied to everyday situations.
Students - If you need a refresher, please click on the link above to review the video from yesterday, then answer the following questions -
  1. Specifically, what are three things in the video that show examples of good teamwork?
  2. How could you apply those skills demonstrated in the video in the classroom?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Three examples of good teamwork in the video would be the guy trying to find something to hold the back of the truck up so the other guy could load the water truck, the guy came along and tried to lighten the load by letting out the water, and then telling them to go down the hill more to make it more level.

Anonymous said...

Three things in the video that show team wok is when the man was putting the stick under the truck so they could put the trunk on the back of the other one.Another is when the man came and told them to let the water out of the truck an put it on a slope. And the last is when the man told the other person to move out the way so he wont get hurt. We could use those skills by when somebody is struggling give them a little advice.

Anonymous said...

Three things in the video that showed good teamwork are when one guy called another guy about adive and that man came there and told them what he thought and they didnt get smart with him they had respect. another thing i saw was a guy telling another guy to move his head because he was in danger of the truck bed falling on him. and another thing i saw was that one guy was tryinig to get a piece of log out from the truck and he couldnt get it and another man came over and helped him.

I can show teamwork in class by helping people that looks like they need help without being mean about it.