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Team-Building Activity

Stack’Em UpFrom Roadmap page 34

Costume Sightings

• While you wait for the presentation to begin, please talk among those at your table to determine:

What is the most interesting costume one of you saw recently?

Write your table’s answer below

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Welcome to New Team Manager Training

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Tell us about your table’s interesting costume

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Introductions• How many of you have:

1. Been a TM/co-TM before? Parent?

2. Are you a TM or Co-TM now? Parent? Educator?

3. Met with your team?

4. Looked through the Rules of the Road?

5. Looked through Roadmap?

6. Looked through one or more TC’s?

7. Have an Elementary level team? Middle? Secondary?

8. Are terrified?

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What Is The Most Important Thing You Want To Learn

Today?

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Need Directions?

“Go to the Roadmap”2016-17_Roadmap.pdf

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Roadmap – It’s Easy To Use

• Starts with a Timeline and a Shopping List on page 16

• It has explanations of many of the program’s Processes and Skills including:• The Creative Process

• The Importance of the Team Manager

• Project-Based Learning

• Skills for Creative and Critical Thinking

• 21st Century Learning

• Project Management

• Team Development

• But most importantly - it has …

Plans and Ideas (agendas and activities)

for 16 team sessions

The Roles of a

Team Manager!

What Have I Gotten Myself Into? Or…

Your Most Important Role!

Life Changer!

“I am equipped to face the world.”Sarah M., DI Alum

“I have learned to love who I am and not fear who I can

become.”Grace A., DI Alum from Mexico

“Because of my DI team manager, I’m no longer

afraid to speak up.”Justin T., DI Alum from Colorado

Roles of the DI Team Manager

EducatorGuide students as they develop

teamwork, tool, construction, Instant

Challenge and project management

skills

Creativity StimulatorHelp team members develop

and express their individual and

group creativity

Challenge ExpertServe as the team’s expert on the

Challenge and the DI rules

Chief Safety OfficerSafeguard team members. Help

them understand safe tool

guidelines, constructive conflict

rules, and team behavior guidelines.

Interference DeflectorEnsure that the team’s solution to the

Challenge is team-directed and team-

developed

FacilitatorManage meeting space, team

calendar, meeting agendas, and

presentation/celebration plans

Creativity

Stimulator

Creative Process

Recognize

Imagine

Initiate & Collaborate

Assess

Evaluate & Celebrate

To learn more:

• Read Roadmap (pages 2&3)

Game Play

(Bounded)

Group Play

(Bonding)Rules

High

Free Play

(Flowing)

Low

ImaginationLow High

Types of Play

Experimentation

• Failure IS an option!

• Trial and error

• Have the team test theories and build

models

• Encourage the team try on different

roles during Instant Challenge

• Ask open-ended questions

• If it doesn’t say you can’t, you can!

Educator

• Instant Challenges

• Theater Games

• Team Building Activities are in the Roadmap

• 3D Human Sculptures – page 20

• By The Numbers – page 20

• Stack ‘Em Up – page 34

• Shape Up – page 41

• And many more…

• Social Interaction Game Ideas

• Red Light Green Light

• Duck Duck Goose

• Human Knot

• Hodgy Podgy

• Many more ideas on web sites ….

Team Building Is An Investment In Your Team’s Success

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• Stay on the sidelines

• Nurture the team’s progress towards their goals

• Guide the team’s growth as a team

• Celebrate successes as they happen

• Ultimate goal: teach the team to guide and coach

themselves

Teaching Teamwork

To learn more:

• Read Roadmap: Team Development (pages 14 & 15)

• Download Team Building for Students

• https://www.destinationimagination.org/files/downloads/D

estination-Imagination-Team-Building-for-Students-

Download.pdf

• Problem Solving Tools• Idea generation

• Idea focusing

• Hand tools

• Electric tools

Teaching Tool Use

To learn more:

• Read Roadmap (pages 38, 43, 61, 68, 69, 88, 94 – 95)

• Many local hardware/craft/sewing stores have tool workshops

Idea Creation

• Idea Creation – Go for Quantity• Generate as many ideas as possible; ask for more

• Encourage wild or silly ideas

• Originality – novel, clever, unusual and original possibilities

• Piggyback and combine ideas

• Defer judgment

• Document all ideas

• Ideas belong to the Team

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It’s Like Pokemon, you gotta catch ‘em all!

Idea Generation Activity

•Each table needs to list as many superpowers as possible in the time allowed.

• One idea per sticky note

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Idea Focusing

• Organize

• Analyze

• Rank and Prioritize

• Test Choices

• Narrow and Choose Options

• Elaborate

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I choose you, Pikachu!

Idea Focusing Activity

•Select from your list the one superpower that you want to give the character depicted by the costume you chose earlier.

•Be prepared to explain your reasoning

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Teaching Construction – Making Anything

Instant Challenges (IC)• Help with teamwork

• Allow team members to try on roles

• Test teams’ on-their-feet problem

solving

• Energize teams

Team Managers Can• Use IC to teach skills the team needs

to know

• Have the team try it again later if

they are struggling

• Demonstrate solutions

• Have the team practice, practice and

practice some more

Teaching Instant Challenge

To learn more:

• Roadmap – has many ICs

• IC Practice Kit – in DI Resource Area

• Free Instant Challenges

• www.creativitycatapult.org

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Instant Challenge - Team Manager’s Role

• Give your Team Instant Challenges to practice at every meeting

• Choose different types and difficulties

• Consider extending time limits at beginning

• Repeat Challenges

• You may make suggestions on how to solve ICs when you practice

Teaching Project Management

To learn more:

• Roadmap – (pages 12 – 13; 51 – 56; 75 – 77; 82; 92; 114)

• Project Management Institute Education Foundation: www.pmief.org

Project Management

Process Groups

Creative Process Description

Defining Recognize Beginning a project; identifying the problem or challenge and agreeing to

work together to solve it

Planning Imagine Generating ideas; defining goals and creating a project plan and timeline

Doing Initiate &

Collaborate

Experimenting with potential solutions; completing the work defined in the

project plan; working with others to complete the project

Assess Tracking progress on the project goals and timelines; ensuring that the

products meet the requirements of the Challenge; identifying any areas of

the project that need changing; practicing and preparing the solution for

presentation

Reviewing Evaluate &

Celebrate

Finalizing the project plan; presenting a solution to an audience; reflecting

on what was learned and what could have been done differently;

celebrating the completion of the project.

Basic Team Schedule

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Tournament !

March 4, 2017

Practice Instant Challenges

Develop TC solution: Build/Implement,

Write, Integrate, Test

> 4 weeks

Team Building,

Select TC

2 - 4 weeks

Idea Generation, Skills Building,

Research, Idea Focusing,

Prototyping

> 4 weeks

Rehearse,

Tweak, Prep

Tournament

Docs/Logistics

> 3 weeks (Feb. 11th)

October November December January February March

Break

Challenge

Expert

Team Manager’s Responsibility to Understand

• Challenge chosen by the team

• Rules of the Road

• Clarifications

• Public

• Private

Ensuring Understanding

To learn more:

• Read Rules of the Road

• Read Challenge(s)

Rule Hierarchy

1.Published Clarifications

2.Team Challenge

3.Rules of the Road

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How to Read a Challenge

To learn more:

• Read Roadmap (page 42)

• Read the Challenge(s) many times throughout the year

1. Give the team copies of the Challenge and some highlighters. Go through the

Challenge with them and highlight the following:

• Must – highlight all sentences that include the word MUST in yellow.

• Will – highlight all sentences that include the word WILL in pink (except for the

sentences that have the phrase, “will earn points”).

• May not, will not, can’t, won’t, no, not – circle all sentences that contain one of

these words.

• Points – highlight all sentences that include the words POINTS in blue.

• May – highlight all sentences that include the word MAY in green.

2. The items that are circled or highlighted in yellow and pink are the rules your team

must follow to solve this Challenge.

3. The items highlighted in blue and green are the areas where your team gets to

decide what and how to do the task or activity.

Team Choice Elements

• Every Challenge except Improv has two Team Choice Elements• These two elements show off a team’s interests, skills, strengths, and

talents

• Scored on

• Creativity and Originality

• Quality, Workmanship or Effort

• Integration into the Presentation

• They are presented as part of the Team Challenge solution

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Interference

Deflector

Only team members may contribute ideas and create the Team

Challenge solution and Team Choice Elements.

Ideas, solutions and hands-on assistance from non-team members,

including you as the Team Manager, is called Interference!

What is Interference?

To learn more:

• Read Rules of the Road (pages 13 – 16)

• Read Roadmap (pages 30 – 31)

SKILLSCHALLENGE

& RULES

SOLUTION

Teaching is NOT Interference

SKILLSCHALLENGE

& RULES

SOLUTION

• Remember, one of your roles is an

Educator!

• You can teach (or find somebody to

teach) your team the skills they want to

know to complete their Challenge

solution

Safety is NOT Interference

SKILLSCHALLENGE

& RULES

SOLUTION

• Remember, one of your roles is the

team’s Chief Safety Officer!

• If what the team wants to do is

dangerous, you can tell them “NO”

• You can tell them to find another way

• You can’t do it for them or suggest other

methods

Challenge Support is NOT Interference

SKILLSCHALLENGE

& RULES

SOLUTION

• Remember, one of your roles is the

team’s Challenge Expert!

• You can ensure that the team

understands the Challenge and the

Rules of the Road

• You cannot provide answers that will lead

the team to an idea or solution

So, What IS Interference?

• Adding your ideas (or any non-team member’s ideas) to the

solution

• Cutting wood, sewing a costume, painting the set, or putting your

skills and talents to work on any part of the Challenge (even if you

think the team members are too young to do it themselves)

• Fixing something that broke (even if you broke it)

• Asking questions that lead the team to a solution or idea

If the team’s solution looks like you imagined it

would, you probably interfered!

Not Interference

It’s Always OK for Team Manager and other Non-Team Members to:

• Transportation• Team Members

• Team Solution

• Set Limitations

• Be a Scribe – document team ideas in their words

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Interference

It’s Never OK for the Team Manager and other Non-Team Members to:

• Participate in creating or presenting any part of the Team Challenge solution, including:

• Fixing/Finishing elements of the team’s solution

• Giving critical feedback or stage directions

• Helping with hair/make-up/costumes (regardless of parents’ picture-taking ops)

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Instant Challenge Interference

• Interference rules do not apply when practicing Instant Challenges

• Skills learned through IC can be applied to Team Challenge solutions, but you cannot use IC to subvert the Interference rule

• The Rules of the Road specifies the role of the Team Manager in Instant Challenge at the tournament – page 29

• i.e. Be a statue

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Interference – The Basics

The Hardest Thing for a Team Manager to do is……

KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT!!!

Instant Challenge Activity

Chief Safety

Officer

Team Safety is Your Responsibility

Volunteer Code of Conduct (VCC)

• Must be signed by all Team

Managers, Appraisers, and

volunteers

• If not signed, the team will not be

able to compete

• VCC is required to be signed

electronically when accessing

program materials online

Suggestions for Keeping Children Safe

… and for protecting you

• Establish tool use protocols

• Have at least two team members at all meetings

• When driving, always have at least two team members with you (no

texting, phone calls)

• Have homeowners or renters insurance and automobile insurance

• Get permission slips signed by parents for transportation and tools use

• Know and follow your school/organization policy for adult and student

interactions

• Allow parents to observe meetings (just observe)

Facilitator

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First – Meet with Parents

• Delegate and get help:

• Co-Team Manager(s)

• Identify meeting time & location(s)

• Transportation

• Gathering supplies

• Snacks

• Identify Tournament Appraiser

• Identify Tournament Official

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Meeting with Parents

• Discuss/Establish:• Time commitment

• Expectations

• Interference Policy & Contract • Roadmap pp 30-31

• Rules of the Road p13

• Meeting schedule

• A budget and collect funds

• Get Contact and Emergency Information• Including Allergies or other Special Needs

At Most Meetings – Do and Review

• Include at least one Instant Challenge (IC) at every meeting

• Allocate time for solving Team Challenge

• Review goals and progress

• Have theater games and extra ICs ready

• Useful when the team gets tired or looses focus

• The process takes time

• Progress is not always visible

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Keep Them Moving

• Find or provide meeting space

• Purchase Team Number and acquire materials

• Set initial meeting schedule (work with team members and parents, but

the meetings have to fit your schedule)

• Take notes and pictures while team is planning and building its solution

• Set meeting agendas (work with team members)

• Communicate with parents

• Coordinate team-parent volunteers (Instant Challenge, snack, tournament

volunteers)

• Organize tournament/showcase attendance

• Celebrate successes

• Ultimate goal – teach the team to manage their team themselves

Points To Remember - Team Manager Survival

• A month before competition, you will feel that they will NEVER be finished. They will, but almost always at the last minute!

• If for some reason the team doesn't complete its solution by the date of the tournament, come anyway.

• We celebrate what they have completed and they also get to do an Instant Challenge

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Have Fun!

Your Most Important Role!

Life Changer!

“I know I would not be where I am today had it not been for

Destination Imagination. Destination Imagination gave me room to

learn about myself. To this day, I have found that anytime I create,

I discover another part of who I am.”

Rachel Hale, DI Alum & “American Idol” Star

“DI taught me how to think creatively. As a scientist, I think

differently than other people, and it is certainly an advantage.”

Lauren Zarzar, Ph.D., Harvard Graduate

DI is the best thing you will ever do for a child’s

education.Melissa Dick

Parent and Team Manager

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The future is already here;

It is just not very evenly distributed.

- William Gibson

Silicon Valley RegionImportant Dates

Events and important information is posted on the Silicon Valley Regional web site – sv.caldi.org

• Nov. 2016 – Challenge Orientation Webinars

• Dec. 3, 2016 - DI Skills Workshop for Team Managers

• Jan. 14, 2017 - Instant Challenge Workshop for Teams

• Feb. 4, 2017 – Appraiser Training Part 1

• Feb. 11, 2017 – Appraiser Training Part 2

• Feb.11, 2017 - Team Manager Walkthrough

• March 4, 2017 – Silicon Valley Regional Tournament

• April 1, 2017 – California State Tournament, Sacramento, CA

• May 24-27, 2017 – Global Finals, Knoxville, Tennessee

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2016-17 Challenge Orientation Webinars

• In It Together, November 3, 2016 @ 7:00 pm

• Vanished!, November 8, 2016 @ 7:00 pm

• Top Secret, November 10, 2106 @ 7:00 pm

• 3-Peat, November 12, 2016 @ 10:00 am

• Save the Day, November 14, 2016 @ 7:00 pm

• Ready Willing and Fable, November 15, 2016 @ 7:00 pm

• Instant Challenge, November 16, 2016 @ 7:00 pm

• Show & Tech, November 18, 2016@ 7:00 pm

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Appraiser

• Your team must provide one trained appraiser for the Regional Tournament. The appraiser should NOT be the Team Manager.

• Appraisers must attend two half-day Appraiser Training sessions:

Feb. 4 & 11, 2017

• Appraisers must be available and plan to appraise at the Regional Tournament ALL DAY on March 4, 2017

• Appraisers will NOT see their team perform

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Tournament Official

• Your team must provide one Tournament Official to assist at the Tournament or with Tournament preparation

• 3-hour assignment

• No training before assignment

• Tournament Officials will be able to see their team perform

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Thanks for coming!