团队建立的重要
(附Adrian 老师英文原稿)
「团队建立」在中国仍然是一个非常外国的概念，并且没有很多人了解我们为什么做它和它的重要性。做团队建立和户外活动的主要目的是帮助每个人的生活变得更有效率。您怎么开始有效率地生活？ 您通过做它学会新的技能，克服您的恐惧，认知领导，更好沟通，交朋友，相信你自己等等。 这些是我们的学生在吴江太湖国际实验学校将学会并且体验的新事物。
每星期五我将给学生做许多不同的比赛和活动。所有的活动，他们将必须与他们的朋友一起运作克服障碍，解决问题和完成任务或是将活动成功的做完。 这些活动都不会集中于个人的专长。 它将集中于小队，并且要达到成功只能靠整个团队。 这样将迫使学生学会他们的朋友是多么重要，并且他们的生活需要透过这些技能; 您不可能独自地做一切或踩着别人到达成功。 学生学会如何与他们的小队的人沟通，如何彼此信任并且如何彼此支持; 如何将他人的需要放在自己之前。
某些活动将是困难的，并且学生也许有一点害怕，但是细心的协助他们可以克服这些障碍和开始相信他们自己。 他们将建立自信，自已信仰，并且克服许多他们的恐惧; 这些恐惧不会发生在他们以后的生活中。 我已经看见学生变得越来越自信和与别人的互动越来越多。 这信心将自动地转移到教室。 我的学生需要很多信心学会讲英语，因此我可以帮助他们在教室之外得到的更多信心，在教室里面他们将有越多信心。 研究表示，参加规则室外和团队建立活动的学生比他们的同辈成功，因为他们有一种更加平衡的生活方式，并且他们比其他没有这背景的人生活更有效率。
我们热切的关心我们的学生，并且热切的期待看见他们成为均匀的人。
Importance of Teambuilding
Teacher Adrian
Teambuilding is still a very foreign concept here in China and not a lot of people understand why we do it and the importance thereof. The main purpose of doing teambuilding and outdoor activities is to help an individual to become more ‘effective in life’.
How do you become more effective in life? You do it by learning new skills, overcoming your fears, learning about leadership, communicating better, making friends, believing in yourself, etc. These are all some of the things that our students here at Taihu International School will learn and experience.
Every Friday I will introduce them to many different games and activities. During all of these, they will have to work together with their friends to overcome obstacles, solve problems, and finish tasks or to be successful in activities. None of these activities will focus on individuals that excel. It will just focus on the team and success can only be reached if the whole team works together. Doing it this way will force students to learn how important their friends are and that they need them through life; you cannot be fully successful if you try to do everything on your own, or step on other people to reach the top. They also learn how to communicate with the people in their teams, how to trust them and also how to support them; how to put other’s needs before their own.
Some of the activities will be hard and the students might be a little scared, but with careful assistance they can overcome these obstacles and start believing in themselves. They will build self-confidence, self-belief and will overcome many of their fears; these fears will not hold them back later in life. Already I have seen students becoming more and more confident in the activities and in their interaction with one another. This confidence will automatically flow over to the classroom. My students need a lot of confidence to learn and speak English, so the more confidence I can help them to get outside the classroom, the more confidence they will have inside the classroom. Research have shown that students participating in regular outdoor and teambuilding activities are much more successful than their peers, because they have a more balanced lifestyle and they are far more effective in life than other’s who don’t have this background.
We are passionate about our students and we are passionate about seeing them becoming well-balanced human beings.