When students who are learning English interview students learning Spanish, they both benefit. For example, consider ways the game Language-Partner strengthens both students: Increased Motivation: Since both of you are helping your partner learn your native language, you are the authority and they are listening to you. Both of you are striving to [...]
What helps people who have differences become less prejudiced and more productive and respectful of each other? Under what conditions do sports and games reduce prejudice? Approaches for answering these questions can be compared by using groundbreaking research published in 1954 by Gordon Allport that laid the foundation for intergroup contact theory (ICT). Over 500 [...]
Facilitator Certification in EnTeam Games EnTeam facilitators use EnTeam Games to strengthen players socially and academically. You are welcome to use EnTeam Games. They are freely available here. When you open a game on the EnTeam website, you will see game rules and suggestions for setting up the game. If you would like help using EnTeam Games, you can download [...]
If you want students to practice enough to become proficient, make practice into a game. For example, memorizing the multiplication tables or becoming quick at following an algorithm can be turned into a game by using Too Many Problems to Solve. Start with a stack of problems that follow a consistent pattern (such as two-digit [...]
What are effective ways to increase respect and reduce prejudice between groups? How can prejudices due to differences in race, culture, and socioeconomic status be overcome? To answer these questions, four organizations are collaborating to engage parents and their children to explore the use of games that keep score of cooperation as a tool for [...]
How do you know children are growing up with the capacity and willingness to prevent future violence between people from different cultures and faiths? A group of teachers worked together with EnTeam facilitators to answer this question in October 2001. They participated in workshops using games that challenge players to solve problems collaboratively: EnTeam [...]
Why play EnTeam Games? Because players learn to bring out the best in others. For example, Maurice Burns directed Project Respond, a program for at-risk children in north St. Louis City. Maurice tested EnTeam games by using them as activities for the middle school students in the after-school program. One afternoon, Maurice chose four students [...]
During the past two years, the conflict resolution activities provided by EnTeam Organization have addressed interpersonal conflicts between students who are together in one site for the after-school program. These students know each other and may even have grown up together. The conflicts that arise among them are different from the intergroup conflicts that exist [...]
Research shows that rich people have increased their income and wealth faster than other people in recent decades. The rise in economic inequality raises important questions: Why are rich people gaining an increasing share of income and wealth? What is needed to reduce economic inequality? How could the growth in income and wealth be more [...]
Since 1954, schools have been required by law to educate students of different races in integrated schools. In the decades since the Brown decision that outlawed segregated schools, the level of effort toward integration has varied widely. While some signs of progress are apparent, the level of segregation has remained stubbornly stable for six decades [...]