FSpS:e040 Summer School – Team Psycholog

e040 Summer School – Team Psychology in Practice

Faculty of Sports Studies
Spring 2018

Extent and Intensity

0/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Dagmar Heiland Trávníková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Jiří Střípek (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Michal Vičar, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

Mgr. Dagmar Heiland Trávníková, Ph.D.

Prerequisites

-active knowledge of English
-positive attitude towards sports activities
-practical experience from the area of work with groups is an advantage

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

Course objectives

The participants of the summer school will acquire theoretical knowledge, as well as practical skills and competences in the area of group work. Students will also acquire basic competences in creation of teambuilding programmes and they will be introduced into the methodology of experiential learning.

The 3 courses within the summer school deal with managing groups from different points of view:
Whereas SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY provides deep theoretical background, TEAM SKILLS offer practical methods, in order to apply these pieces of knowledge into practice. INTRODUCTION TO EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING provides the background for personal development and understanding its functioning within the context of a group and group processes. Combination of these three courses forms a stable basis for development of competences of the participants in the area of work with a group or a team.

Both theoretical and programme resources of the summer school are the group development stages by B.Tuckman (1965): forming - storming - norming - performing – closing.
This structure provides a basis for the summer school contents, including theoretical and practical parts.

Learning outcomes

Participation in the summer school will enable the students to:

- improve social and communication skills
- understand the basics of group processes
- understand the basics of social psychology
- improve skills related to teamwork and group work
- acquire techniques in order to lead a team
- identify team roles
- understand the basics of experiential learning and its use within group work
- acquire skills related to feedback and evaluation

Syllabus

COURSE 1: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
-social psychology
-group dynamics and group effect and its impact
-group x individual performance
-norming and group norms
-emotions and emotional intelligence
-communication in a group
-conflicts and their solutions
-leader and leadership
-motivation and group
COURSE 2: TEAM SKILLS
- the team and its structure, needs and competences of team members
- team skills
- team communication and cooperation
- dramaturgy of a teambuilding programme before the event and on site
- methods of evaluation of teambuilding programmes
COURSE 3: INTRODUCTION TO EXPERIANTIAL LEARNING
- theory of experiential education
- theory of experience-reflective learning
- methodological steps of reflection
- rules of psychological safety in experiential education
- background of preparation a course using the experiential education method
- self experience with experiential education

Literature

LAFF, Michael. Effective Team Building: More than Just Fun at Work. T + D. Alexandria, 2006, 2 pp. ISSN 1055-9760. info
BEARD, Colin and John P. WILSON. Experiential learning : a best practice handbook for educators and trainers. 2. ed. London: Kogan Page, 2006, v, 314. ISBN 9780749444891. info
MOON, Jennifer A. A handbook of reflective and experiential learning : theory and practice. 1st pub. London: Routledge Falmer, 2004, viii, 252. ISBN 9780415335164. info
HEPBURN, Alexa. An introduction to critical social psychology. 1st pub. London: SAGE Publications, 2003, ix, 278. ISBN 0761962107. info
PAYNE, Vivette. The team-building workshop : trainer´s guide. New York: AMACOM, 2001, xv, 447. ISBN 0814470793. info
JONES, Alanna. Team-building activities for every group. Richland, WA: Rec Room Pub., 1999, 191 s. ISBN 0966234162. info
BERKOWITZ, Leonard. A survey of social psychology. 3. ed. New York: CBS Publishing Japan LTD., 1988, xiv, 536 s. ISBN 0-03-910703-4. info
DYER, William G. Team building : issues and alternatives. 2nd ed. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1987, xiii, 171. ISBN 0201180375. info
KOLB, David A. Experiential learning : experience as the source of learning and development. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1984, xiii, 256. ISBN 0132952610. info
KEETON, Morris T. Experiential learning. Edited by Virginia B. Smith. 1st ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1976, xxviii, 26. ISBN 0875892779. info
ALLPORT, Gordon Willard. Handbook of social psychology. Edited by Gardner Lindzey. 2nd print. Cambridge: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1954, 588 s. info
MCDOUGALL, William. An introduction to social psychology. 29th. ed. London: Methuen & Co., 1948, xxix, 524. info

Teaching methods

-theoretical lectures
-thematic group activities
-case studies
-discussions upon selected topics
-video
-reflection and feedback
- introduction techniques (ice-breakers, problem solving activities, trust development activities)
- team building activities from the field of psychomotricity games, juggling and other non-traditional motor activities
- self-learning, student´s own experience
- experiential activities for individuals and groups
- reflection of experience
- concept of the whole summer school in the spirit of an experiential education

Assessment methods

COURSE 1: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
After the end of the course participants will give feedback and discuss their gainedcompetencies. Active participation is necessary.

COURSE 2: TEAM SKILLS
At the end of the summer school the participants will prepare a short teambuilding activity for their colleagues, according to specific criteria.

COURSE 3: INTRODUCTION TO EXPERIANTIAL LEARNING
Active participation. Reflection on the given topic.

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