Tonight as I mourn the knowledge that tomorrow I will return to school, I go through the long list of reasons why school may not prepare us as well for the future as it seems. However, tonight one idea keeps resurfacing; does school prepare us well enough to work in teams? Throughout history teamwork has likely led to more success than any other tactic. Whether it be the amassing of armies to conquer inferior civilizations, the groups of pioneers who worked together to settle in the west, or the teams today which man the space shuttles which have taken us to the new frontier, teamwork almost always seems to lead to success.
So I must ask the question, before heading off to college, are students even close to being prepared to work in teams, I do not think we are. Sure we all have the basic ideas of how to work as a team, but I feel that most students are nowhere near being prepared to work as a team effectively, most likely we would tear it apart as we struggled to take the leadership role. I feel like any other one of the many subjects we study in school, team work must be learned as well, an although learning is generally best done through experience, I feel more often than not that we are not getting that real experience of working as a team in high school. Sure we have a few projects here and there where we work as teams, but we always just team up with our friends and goof around a strong majority of the time, and how is that preparing us for the teams we will have to work in in our careers. I feel teamwork needs to be threaded into school curriculums, whether it be through multiple coordinated projects which teach us teamwork, or inventive classes which effectively teach us how to work efficiently in a team. in order to properly prepare us for our futures we need to learn how to work as a team, but does school really do that for us right now?
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