Establishing Group Norms

NORMS  Goals  Values  Beliefs  Experiences  lack of clarity and specificity  Lack commitment or ownership  Invoke past negative experiences

 do his/her best to participate in the group time.  seek to own the group as a whole.  seek to be responsible for the growth and development of the group.  seek to contribute to the growth of the group. Each group member will

 Each group will create a story based on two characters.  Each person in each group will contribute to the story without any intervention or suggestions from the other group members.  Each person will take at least 3 turns in adding to the story.  Each turn should take at least two sentences.  Upon completion the group will edit the story based on positive cooperation. Group Story

 On the index card provided come up with an adjective for the first letter for the last name…..  For example…Joe Smith would be Joe “Super” Smith.  Do not discuss which person you have…Keep it to yourself.  Sit and wait for instructions Encouragement

 Shirt is a collaborative effort…  We will NOT vote on these…  We will work together and compromise our ideas.  NO PEER PRESSURE!  All Designs must be appropriate for school at all levels k-12 PALs T-Shirt

 Divide a sheet of paper into four columns, label them  Attention  Power  Revenge  Inadequacy  Think about each of the aforementioned concepts and write down any word that comes to mind for the appropriate category. 4 Causes of Misbehavior