Building Teamwork Skills Into Instructional Teams

1
Building Teamwork Skills Into Instructional Teams
2
Focus of our session

• Learn about teaming
• Experience different structures and tools to
  support teams
• Explore tools and structures for collaborative
  teaching
• Time to plan, discuss, collaborate

3
Morning Agenda

• 1045 Welcome Check in
• 1100 What is Instructional Teaming?
• 1120 Defining YOUR Team
• Big Picture of Teaming
• Talking about the day-to-day
• 1130 Team Time
• 1150 Check Out

4
Afternoon Agenda

• 100 Check In
• 110 Structures for Co-Teaching and Co-Planning
• 150 Team Time
• 205 Wrap up Check Out

5
Why did you go into teaching?
6
As you watch the video.
What aligns with your current thinking about
Instructional Teams?
What questions does this raise for you?
7
Defining Your Team

• Big Picture
• Who are we as individuals?
• What are our personal goals?
• What past experiences do we bring to this team?

• Day-to-Day Details
• Who is going to call parents?
• Who is going to do the bulletin boards?
• How will we keep track of student work?

8
(No Transcript)
9
(No Transcript)
10
(No Transcript)
11
Defining Your Team

• Big Picture
• Who are we as individuals?
• What are our personal goals?
• What past experiences do we bring to this team?

• Day-to-Day Details
• Who is going to call parents?
• Who is going to do the bulletin boards?
• How will we keep track of student work?

12
(No Transcript)
13
(No Transcript)
14
(No Transcript)
15
(No Transcript)
16
(No Transcript)
17
Check Out
Please fill out the slip of paper and LEAVE it at
your space for us to look at.
Have a great lunch! See you at 100pm
18
Afternoon Agenda

• 100 Check In
• 110 Structures for Co-Teaching and Co-Planning
• 150 Team Time
• 205 Wrap up Check Out

19
If I were in my classroom/school I would be..
But Im HERE now!
20
Gallery Graffiti Walk
As you see the different teaching structures make
comments about

• Positives Negatives of the structure
• What would need to be planned for to use this
  structure?
• What curricular areas would make sense for us to
  use this structure?

21
Beat The Power Point

• As a team fill your note card by responding to
  the prompts on the next slide.
• You have 5 minutes.
• GO!

22
Beat The PPT

• What structures are needed to be an effective
  team?
• What topics are important for you to cover?
• What school and meeting routines are important?

23
Now ... Count the Points!

• If I share something that youve written on your
  note card, you get 1 point!
• If you have something on your note card I didnt
  share you get 2 points!!
• Now count up your points And the winning team
  is

24
Co-Planning Structures

• Agenda
• Ways to generate agenda items
• Post its through out the week
• Generate it the week before
• A Team Planning Notebook
• At the beginning of the meeting
• End of meeting beginning of the next
• Emails through out the week
• Timeline for getting agenda items to facilitator
• Your ideas?

25
More Structures Format Ideas

• Roles / Responsibilities
• Assignment of duties
• Time lines for completion
• Establishing standing items for discussion
• Creating a regular structure for note taking
• Creating a list of students who might need
  accommodations

26
Planning Formats / Styles

• By content area
• By unit
• For a period of time using assessment data

27
Things to Think About

• Can you make accommodations for an area that is
  repeated throughout the year on a regular basis?
  (spelling, writing process)
• Do you need to have a regular time to evaluate
  your teaming?
• Have you built in reflection time to see if your
  lessons or accommodations need to be fine tuned?

28
Implementing the Plan

• Who is going to do what?
• Who will lead the lesson?
• What role will others play?
• Assign specific roles for an adult to do during
  the lesson
• Assign roles for support staff not in the meeting
  SEA, BRS
• How will this information be communicated to them?

29
Communication

• Will we keep a record of our meetings?
• Where and how?
• How will we communicate with team members who are
  absent?

30
Contingency Plans

• When there is a sub
• What if one of us are gone on a team meeting day?

31
Now ... Count the Points!

• If I share something that youve written on your
  note card, you get 1 point!
• If you have something on your note card I didnt
  share you get 2 points!!
• Now count up your points And the winning team
  is

32
Focus of our session

• Learn about teaming
• Experience different structures and tools to
  support teams
• Explore tools and structures for collaborative
  teaching
• Time to plan, discuss, collaborate

33
Ways to Seek Support
Amy Krauthamer-Maloney Huegel Elementary akrautham
er_at_ madison.k12.wi.us
Julie Frentz Allis Elementary jfrentz_at_
madison.k12.wi.us
Who is in your building that can help you?
34
What is one thing that you are really excited
about for this year?