Team Building Workshop

ByJody Durick

Anne McAdamJeremy SlackKatie Wears

Warm Up

What was your greatest accomplishment of 2009 (does not need to be educational)?

Purpose: Why Team Building?

• ELCC Standard 1: Candidates who complete the program are educational leaders who have the knowledge and ability to promote the success of all students by facilitating the development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a school or district vision of learning supported by the school community.

• ELCC Standard 2: Candidates who complete the program are educational leaders who have the knowledge and ability to promote the success of all students by promoting a positive school culture, providing an effective instructional program, applying best practice to student learning, and designing comprehensive professional growth plans for staff.

Purpose: Why Team Building?

• Administrators can use team building to increase the effectiveness of building level teams such as Building Management Teams, Professional Learning Communities, Instructional Support Teams, or grade level teams.

• Administrators can use team building to increase cohesiveness with and between faculty.

• Teachers can use team building to increase cooperative learning with students.

The Importance of Relationships to School

Administrators• Relationships are one of 21 Responsibilities of

Leadership as defined by Marzano, Waters and McNulty, 2005

• Staff including leaders and teachers need to be bonded in order to get through times of change. Fullan, 2001

• “Relationships, relationships, relationships! It’s all about the relationships.” Anibal Soler, Principal of East High School

• Principals need to work to create consensus and encourage collaboration in schools. Rick DuFour and Timothy Berkey 1995

The Importance of Relationships to School

AdministratorsAccording to Education World the qualities

of an effective team include:• Open, two-way communication• Respect for others’ viewpoints• Shared goals• Trust• Sense of shared responsibility• Encourage each otherwww.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin408_a.shtml

Working Rest

Working Rest

Who would you choose to be shipwrecked on a desert island with?

What Should Principals Know About Building and

Maintaining Teams? • Short & Greer (1997), state, “Needs of a diverse student

population and the rapid pace of change require decisionmakers to function in a complex, dynamic environment”

• Bennis (1999) states that these, “diverse circumstances and the vast amounts of information available prohibit one person from making all the decisions”

• Therefore, according to Turk, Wolff, Waterbury and Zurnalt (2002), “principals can no longer serve as a sole decisionmaker and holder of power”

• Rather, as Somerville & Mroz (1997, p.70) states, “the leader’s focus should shift from making decisions and taking action to “coaching, mentoring, and being a role model for responsibility and accountability.”

Successful Teaming • According to Turk, Wolff, Waterbury and Zurnalt (2002),

– Teaming that extends from leadership into the classroom will provide students with important skills for the future

– Students will need to be able to demonstrate teamwork, interpersonal, and oral communication skills when they enter the workforce (Barth, 2001)

• Administrators and teachers need to be the role models for students

• Turk et. al. (2002), states, “principals, teachers and other staff members help students develop these valuable traits when they collaborate effectively in teams”

• Ultimately, successful teaming in schools requires principal support, team member commitment to purpose and to a collaborative performance, and a system that supports teaming (Turk et. al, 2002, p.15).

Team Building is Most Effective when the Foundation of a Shared

Commitment is Developed

According to an article located at www.teamtechnology.co.uk/, one needs to put this foundation of shared commitment in place by:

• Clarifying the team goals, and building ownership/commitment to those goals across the team

• Identifying any issues which inhibit the team from reaching their goals, and removing the inhibitors

• Putting in place enablers to help the goals be achieved to higher standards

• Using team processes in the correct sequence to help the team climb one rung at a time up the ladder of performance

Team Building• Is an essential prerequisite for developing

successful teams• Occurs during training activities and teaming

activities• Skills are transferable from one team setting to

another team setting• Training activities and teaming activities become

effective team-building functions when individuals reflect on the process

• Reflection and discussion of processes is a form of team building

(Turk, Wolff, Waterbury and Zurnalt, 2002, p. 20-21)

Facilitating Effectiveness In Teams

TIER is a framework that any organization can apply to stimulate effective teamwork. Once a team has been formed, each layer keeps building upon the other in order to facilitate a consistently high performance:

Layer 1: You invest in developing the team

on a continuous basis

Layer 2: You pay attention to individual progress

Layer 3: You steer the team in the right direction by setting the framework for the team process

Layer 4: You monitor progress and develop methods to recognize and reward both the team and the individual in order to motivate, inspire and enthuse them to greater performance heights

(http://www.teambuildingportal.com)

The TIER Framework in Action

• T: Develop the Team. Design team building programs and experiential workshops that provide guidance on issues such as team behavior, cohesion and teamwork

• I: Develop the Individual. Facilitate ongoing job training, upgrade skills regularly, and offer scope for personal growth

• E: Enable the Team Process. Steer a team in the right direction by clarifying roles, specifying business objectives and encouraging discussion and good productive conflict to optimize the team output

• R: Recognize and Reward. Recognize and reward both the individual effort and team effort. Good teamwork deserves a pat on the back and so does outstanding individual contribution

*TEAM BUILDING IS DEVELOPING THE TEAM*

(http://www.teambuildingportal.com)

Working Rest

Working Rest

If you could be the teacher of one famous person, who would you want it to be and why?

Cooperative Learning in the Classroom

Why do we need Cooperative Learning?

The Four Crisis

• The Achievement Crisis

• The Achievement Gap Crisis

• The Race Relations Crisis

• The Social Skills Crisis

Cooperative Learning in the Classroom

Basic Principles:

Why does it work?

• Positive Interdependence

• Individual Accountability

• Equal Participation

• Simultaneous Interaction

Team Building Breakout Sessions

Group 1: Nestle Crunches and Baby Ruths go to the back hallway.

Group 2: Butterfingers and 3 Musketeers go to room 316.

De-Briefing Process

Step 1: Experience• This is participating in the activity

De-Briefing Process

Step 2: Recall• Promote recall through questioning• “What did we each do?”• “Who said/did what?”• “What behaviors did we observe?”

De-Briefing Process

Step 3: Analyze• Ask thought provoking questions.• “How did it happen?”• “Did everyone solve the problem the same way?”• “What was the group supposed to do?”

De-Briefing Process

Step 4: Generalize• Promote making judgments and opinions.• “What did the game show us about how we solve

problems??• “Do you feel differently about yourself or your

teammates.”• “Through this game I learned…”

Questions and Evaluation

• Please complete two copies of the evaluation forms.

• Thank you for participating!