Learning~Working+Together

= Learning and Working Together =

We are all different - thank goodness! GREAT work is about activating the best in our team mates - ensuring that our learning and working is strength-based while inviting each of us to also rehearse our abilities to excel with other styles beyond our own natural propensities in ways that build personal versatility. The idea is that if we know ourselves along with knowing others, we appreciate their differences and are able to work with them without much conflict, creating positive benefits for tasks, projects and the community at large.

**Assumptions:**

 * 1) Knowing your style increases success and ease in learning and working
 * 2) Communicating your styles to others increases collaboration success
 * 3) Styles are preferences in the use of abilities, not abilities themselves.
 * 4) Matching styles and abilities creates synergy that is more than the sum of its parts.
 * 5) Life choices need to fit styles as well as abilities.
 * 6) People have profiles (or patterns) of styles, not just a single style.
 * 7) Styles are variable across tasks and situations.
 * 8) People differ in the strength of their preferences.
 * 9) People differ in there stylistic flexibility.
 * 10) Styles are socialized.
 * 11) Styles can vary across the life span.
 * 12) Styles are measurable.
 * 13) Styles are teachable.
 * 14) Styles valued at one time may not be valued at another.
 * 15) Styles valued in one place may not be valued in another.
 * 16) Styles, on average, are not good or bad -- it's a question of fit.

Comparing Collaboration vs Cooperation Groups
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In the Classroom: Learning Styles + Strength-based Project Tasks*

 * View another Translation chart of learning styles with Interpretations of Allegories in Literature

Learning Styles Tests
> What’s My Teaching and Learning Style – Keirsey Temperament and Personality Survey? > >
 * Identifying Styles a la YouTube
 * Learning Style Inventory [Visual, Aural, Verbal, Physical, Social, Logical, or Solitary]
 * [|Multiple Intelligences] [Verbal, Logical, Musical, Spacial, Inter-personal, Intra-personal, Kinesthetic, Naturalist]
 * What color crayon am I? [Metaphor for Self-Knowing]
 * **Myers-Briggs Test Indicator**(MBTI) was invented to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions based on a psychometric questionnaire. View More Info on this Style.
 * How they focus their attention or get their energy ([|extraversion or introversion])
 * How they perceive or take in information ([|sensing] or [|intuition])
 * How they prefer to make decisions ([|thinking] or [|feeling])
 * How they orient themselves to the external world ([|judgment] or [|perception])

Working Styles Tests

 * =====Social / Working Styles - PDF Test and Traits [Analytical, Driver, Amiable, Expressive] =====

[[file:Social Skills and Working Styles.pdf]]

 * Social/Working Styles Strengths and Weakness

Ideas / Strategies for Learning/Working in Groups

 * =====Matching Student Working Styles with Team Tasks=====
 * =====Creative Digital-based Team Building Ideas=====
 * =====Grouping and Strategies a la Cooperative Learning=====
 * =====Peer Instruction a la Collaborative Learning=====
 * Group Skills to Accelerate PBL Tasks
 * Learning Circle Basics
 * Pecha Kuchas for Learning/Publishing/Celebrating/Inspiring
 * Example of Pecha Kucha for PD Team Learning

Resources

 * =====Powerful Learning w/ Collaborative Methods a la Edutopia=====
 * Rubric for Assessing Learning Partners / Teaming Skills