AHS.21 Establishing Team Mission
This LifeKnowledge lesson (AHS.21, “Establishing Team Mission”) teaches advanced high school students how team mission statements relate to building high performing teams and the step-by-step process for developing one. Through a T-chart interest approach, definitions, group brainstorming, and a creative “karaoke” activity, students learn to identify stakeholders, common purpose, and guiding principles and to draft and revise a team mission statement.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Identify the relationship between team mission statements and high performing teams.
- Identify steps in a process for developing a team mission statement.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 50 minutes.
- Grade level
- Advanced High School
- Materials
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- Writing Surface
- Overhead Projector
- AHS.21.TM.A
- AHS.21.TM.B
- AHS.21.AS.A—one per student
- AHS.21.AS.B—one per student
- AHS.21.Assess—one per student
- Scratch Paper—two per student
- Unit
- Stage Two of Development—WE
- Problem Area
- How Do I Build High Performing Teams?
- Precepts
- B5: Participate effectively as a team member; F1: Implement a leadership and personal growth plan
- Key Terms
- Mission statement; Team mission statement; Stakeholder; Common purpose; Guiding principles
- Resources
- Kouzes, James and Barry Posner, "The Leadership Challenge," San Francisco, California, Jossey-Bass, 1995.
- Connection to other lessons
- This lesson will be best understood if students have completed lessons AHS.14 and AHS.20.
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Lesson plan
Presentation
Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NL-ENG.K-12.11Participating in Society — Students participate as knowledgeable, reflective, creative and critical members of a variety of literacy communities.