Official JAG competency wording: Understand the elements of high-performing work teams
Category: Life Survival
Source themes: team dynamics, efficiency, synergy
Source: JAG Competencies Descriptions.docx.
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Reviewed OSEU and Wolakota interview connections
G45 — Understand the elements of high-performing work teams
Explore G45 · Traditions of Compassion, Help and Respect - Sidney Byrd - OSEU #7 · OSEU 7
Reviewed teaching connection (Supporting): The speaker describes helping one another and mutual dependence as sources of community strength. This supports considering cooperation and shared responsibility while OSEU 7.1 asks learners to analyze values that reinforce the philosophy and strength of tribal communities over time.
Updated for Proposed August 9, 2024: The teaching concerns values supporting communities through change, now addressed by 7.1; revised 7.3 focuses on continuing the way of life. Original JAG–interview approval retained.
See, in the traditional way, that was not a part of what I was doing. Three things. Have compassion for one another. Have compassion for one another. Help one another. Be the first to help your neighbor. Finally, he said, Kichonihampo. Have respect for one another. If you do these three things, our nation will rise, we'll live, survive. Do these three things. And I got to thinking, you know, that's true. These old wise men tell us these things. Three elements for living. If we do those things, we'll survive. So we can depend on each other to help one another. That's what makes us strong. So I'm a firm believer in that, the traditional way. So, one day, we're going to stand accountable for our actions. And what are we going to say? Are we going to say, we followed the tenets, the teachings of the one we call Wanikia. We have the most powerful gift this world has ever known. You know what it is? It's love. Any problem can be solved with love. Our problem is, we don't use it. So we create problems. There'll be no more wars. There will no longer be selfish people, greedy people. There will be sharing and giving. Our problem is we don't take it. So we create problems. I can't ever forget the wisdom of these old men, Kakosha, Lenakichuyo, remember these things. So we would treat everybody like we want to be treated by ourselves, love one another. So I'm now in the sunset of my life and I'll hang on as long as I can but following those teachings will make the difference in our lives.
Learn About: What three teachings does Sidney Byrd identify, and how does he connect them to a community’s strength?
Learn From: What is one contribution you could choose to make that helps a group become stronger?
05 Wolakota Project Video Transcripts and URLs.docx · WP-0153; video o29NO-UyUXk; passage containing: So we can depend on each other to help one another.. Teaching interpretation is separate from official wording and the interviewee’s account.
G45 — Understand the elements of high-performing work teams
Explore G45 · David Bald Eagle & the Selection of Chiefs of the United Indigenous Nations - OSEU 7 · OSEU 7
Reviewed teaching connection (Exploratory): David Bald Eagle describes reluctance to take a leadership role, missed meetings, and being asked to serve as a chief. This supports G45 by inviting students to identify conditions that allow a group to work effectively. This is a classroom transfer opportunity; the interview does not provide a complete procedure for demonstrating this competency.
Updated for Proposed August 9, 2024: New connection to the overall current understanding. No specific OSEU standard alignment is claimed. Original JAG–interview approval retained.
Four of us were picked as a team, and the four, they never came to the meetings, and I couldn't say anything because I was picked as one of the four. No leader, nothing, so I never did say anything. I didn't call a meeting together or anything like that, but they did call a meeting of the chiefs together on this reservation two or three times, and no one went, just the two of us. And the other guy wasn't picked as a team, just myself and this guy attended. The other three chiefs, they never did come, or this one passed away, this one passed away, so the other three didn't show up. So I decided, well, one of these days they might call a meeting, and I didn't pay attention until they invited me, where this call came from this morning, from Puerto Rico. They invited me down there, but they didn't tell me about picking any chiefs or anything.
Learn About: What details in this passage support the speaker’s account of taking leadership? What would you need to hear in the full interview before interpreting it?
Learn From: How could you identify conditions that allow a group to work effectively? Use a fictional or classroom example if you prefer, and explain which part of the speaker’s account informed your approach.
05 Wolakota Project Video Transcripts and URLs.docx · WP-0058; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLx2KTnyL1A; opening passage. Teaching interpretation is separate from official wording and the interviewee’s account.
Human Shaped Learning connection
Chapter 13: Fostering Collaboration and Community in the Classroom
Reviewed teaching connection: Reviewed connections: G45. Also supported by G45 competency. Use a shared task with meaningful roles, turn-taking, paraphrasing, and feedback.
Human Shaped Learning with Front Matter.docx · Ch. 13, actual manuscript pp. 99–105; Practical Strategies for Collaboration
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