Benefits of Cooperative Games,
Trust Games, and Initiative Activities
All students benefit (nobody is left out).
Less teacher directed (student centered).
Students are primary decision makers.
Teacher provides a challenge--students determine response.
No right or wrong response.
Opportunity for students to work together, struggle,
deal with failure and master the problems presented to them.
Students build better relationships with team members.
Students interact verbally and physically in order to master challenges presented.
Develops cognitive ability in students.
Students learn to think on their feet, make quick decisions,
and understand rules and strategies.
Builds self-confidence for individuals and groups.
Helps students learn techniques to better handle the stresses of competition.
Cooperative games, trust games and initiative games challenge students
to work individually and cooperate while building self-esteem.
Team building helps students learn how individual efforts combine
to help the team accomplish goals.
Team building teaches students how to fail and succeed, teaches them
to become good teammates and help foster their self-esteem.
Team building strives to teach that failure is only temporary and that when one fails,
reorganization and renewed efforts are needed.
Team building requires that certain rules be kept and that if the rules are broken, consequences must be suffered or sacrifices made.
Team building puts a premium on the relationships between teammates;
what counts is not if the team solves the challenge,
but how the team works together to eventually solve the challenge.
Cooperative games eliminate the fear of failing and makes sure everyone becomes a winner.
These benefits were compiled from information read in More Team Building Challenges and Curriculum and Instruction: The Secondary School Physical Education Experience.
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