Collaborative Clinical Conversations:

Options, Ideas and Solutions

SPDG Spring InstituteJim Rickabaugh

May 20, 2014

Presentation Goals

• Reinforce what you are doing• Remind of what you may have forgotten• Introduce some new ideas and strategies

Overview

• Key Skills and Building Blocks for Effective Collaboration• Processes to make the most of collaborative

conversations• Integration and application to support your work

Warm- Up Activity

I Choose “C”

Efficacy• Self“Self-efficacy is the belief in one’s capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.”

Bandura, 1986

“Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.”

Henry Ford

Efficacy

• Self• Collective

“A shared belief that by working together we can make a difference.”

Goddard, 2003

Efficacy

• Self•Collective•Academic Optimism

“Collective teacher efficacy is the perceptions of teachers that the faculty as a whole can execute courses of action required to positively affect student achievement.”

Hoy, 2006

“Collective efficacy has a greater effect on student achievement than does socioeconomic status.”

Smith, Hoy and Sweetland, 2001

Impacts on Efficacy Beliefs

•Mastery Experiences•Vicarious Experiences•Social Persuasion•Emotional Arousal/Affective State

Resilience

More than “It can take a licking and keep on ticking.”

Resilience

•Adaptation• Transformation•Persistence•Grit

Adaptive Thinking vsGenerative Thinking

Understanding and Responding to Conflict

Johnson and Johnson 1995

Goals/Interests

Relationships

Conflict Involves Two Elements

How We Respond Depends on What We Value in the Situation• High goal pursuit/low relationship value = force• Low goal pursuit/low relationship value =

withdraw• Low goal pursuit/high relationship value =

accommodate• High goal pursuit/high relationship value =

confront• Moderate goal pursuit/-moderate relationship

value = compromise

Conflict Preferences

Power of Clinical Teams

• Build on individual skills and collective assets• Engage in useful team behaviors• Employ effective processes

Five Dysfunctions of a TeamPatrick Lencioni

Attention to Results

Embracing Accountability

Willingness to Commit

Healthy Conflict

Abundance of Trust

The Five Characteristics of an Effective Team(Adapted from Lencioni)

Collaborative Clinical Conversation Approaches

• Consensus and divergent thinking• Routine and heuristic approaches• Veteran and novice perspectives• Relationships and goals balance• Information and expectation driven

communication

Application Activity

“Failure is not an option”

Analysis

• Consensus and divergent thinking• Routine and heuristic approaches• Veteran and novice perspectives• Relationships and goals balance• Information and expectation driven

communication

Team Activity: Building a ModelHow do you see the pieces fit together?

•Create a graphic•Draw a picture•Develop a narrative•Use your idea

Practice:How can you employ what was discussed today?Collaborative Clinical Conversation

Use your model to discuss how you can prepare to implement the Teacher Performance Assessment (TPA)

What have we learned?What can we apply/use?What do we still need to learn?What steps can we take?

Report Out and Wrap Up