Classopolis

Description of the activity:

1. Forming Groups and Assigning Roles

• The students are divided into groups, each representing a work team or a small company.

• Each group member receives a card describing a specific profession or role within the company, such as human resources manager, project manager, marketing expert, or technical specialist.

             

2. Assignment of Projects

• Each group is assigned one or more projects to carry out, which may be either internal to the team or external, requiring collaboration with other groups.

• Projects may include developing a new product, creating an advertising campaign, solving a technical problem, or organizing an event. Each project requires specific skills that may not all be available within the individual group.

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3. Collaboration between groups

• To complete assigned projects, groups must identify missing resources and contract with other groups for help. This may include temporarily hiring a member of another group with specific skills, or reaching a collaboration agreement with an entire group.

• During the bargaining process, the groups must negotiate terms and conditions, such as the duration of the loan of a resource, possible exchange of services, or the division of profits of the final project.

4. Developing Collaborative Strategies

• Each team must develop collaborative strategies to achieve its goals, considering factors such as internal and external communication, time management, and fair distribution of resources.

• Groups must also establish ways to resolve conflicts that may arise during collaboration with other teams.

5. Final Presentation

• At the end of the activity, each group must present its work to the class, describing the assigned project, the collaborative strategies implemented, the difficulties encountered and how they were overcome, and the results obtained.

• The presentation should include a reflection on how collaboration with other groups influenced the success of the project and what was learnt from the process.

This activity is designed to develop key competences such as collaboration, negotiation, effective communication, and teamwork management, preparing students to work in real and dynamic contexts.

Summary:

• Each group is a work team/company

• Each individual member receives a card with a profession

• Each group receives projects to be carried out either internally within the team or externally for which collaboration with a member of another group or an entire group is required (e.g. hiring/borrowing a professional figure or reaching an agreement with the other group)

• Inviting teams to contract/collaborate to achieve the objectives assigned in the projects

• Exposing all the activity carried out to the class