Teaming Approach in Middle School

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Teaming Approach in Middle School

• Through the Eyes of a Middle School Teacher

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Lessons from Nature on Teaming

• http//www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey
  63c34332d1988244fb08

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A little about me and my teaming experiences

• 17 years in middle school
• 2, 3, 4, and 6 member teams

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Advantages and DisadvantagesLets Talk About
Zachary
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Words of Wisdom

• Give and take
• Communication
• Focus on the prize---the students
• Remain positive
• Laugh a lot
• Be supportive

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The Project S.H.I.N.E. Family Album

• 2002-2004
• Julie Marshall and Becky Strickland

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• The Foundation of S.H.I.N.E.
• S Service-based learning
• H Highly integrated curriculum
• I Improved academic achievement
• N No room for failure
• E Every student experiencing success

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The Roots of S.H.I.N.E.

• The Idea
• The Response to a Need
• The Collaboration
• The Family Tree

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Goal of S.H.I.N.E.

• Every student would understand the significance
  of his/her role in his/her OWN educational
  success and within the community in which he/she
  lives.

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The S.H.I.N.E. Approach

• Two-member looping team
• High expectations
• Strong sense of family- United community of
  learners
• Standards-based
• Highly integrated content
• Real-world application
• Service learning

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Thematic Unit Highlights
Who am I, Myself? Mama, where you from? Marie
Bradby Ropes Course Who am I in my
Family? Cup of Christmas Tea Hoag Genetics/Probab
ility Angel Tree Christmas Adoption Who am I
in the World? So far from the Bamboo Grove Yoko
Kawashima Watkins Spaghetti Bridges Interviewed
Adult Daycare Adoptees on WWII and Origami
Picture Frames Penpals with Operation Freedom
Troops
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More Thematic Unit Highlights

• Who am I my Future
• Research Project
• Intelligence Survey, Career Survey
• Interview of Community Professionals
• Animal Shelter
• Who am I What is Truth?
• Nothing but the Truth Avi
• Constitution and Bill of Rights
• Planetary Science and Geology
• Letters to the President/ Vietnam Wreath
• Who am I in my School Family?
• Coat of Many Colors Dolly Parton
• Family Quilt Squares Using Geometry
• Custodial Cookie Appreciation

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S.H.I.N.E. Successes

• Sense of oneness
• Service projects instilled compassion for others
  and sense of responsibility for the community
• Greater internalization of content and skills
• Increase in academic performance
• Decrease in administrative behavioral
  intervention

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S.H.I.N.E. Statistics
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• For two are better than one you see if one
  should fall, the other is there to pick him up
• paraphrased from
  The Holy Bible

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• Let love be your greatest aim.
• I Corinthians 131

S.H.I.N.E.
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Checkerboard Puzzle

• The task is to create a checkerboard from the
  puzzle pieces given.
• Pass out the puzzle pieces until there are no
  pieces remaining. Each person should have at
  least one puzzle piece.
• Taking turns, each person should place a single
  puzzle piece on the table if they feel it will
  get the puzzle completed WITHOUT TALKING. If a
  person does not feel a puzzle piece will fit into
  the puzzle at his/her turn, that person should
  be skipped.
• First team to correctly complete the checkerboard
  wins!

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Topics for discussion

• Effective teams
• Teamwork
• Interdisciplinary planning

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Group Sketch

• Your group will draw a structure.
• You may use no more than 25 lines.
• Each person may only draw one line and then pass
  the pen.
• The person who draws the very first line will be
  called the group leader.
• Each group will have one extra Special Rule to
  follow. You be given this rule now.

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Group Sketch Questions

• Was your group successful?
• How did you feel about your Special Rule?
• How did you feel when you heard other groups
  doing different things?

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What does it mean to be a team?

• http//www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey
  ddb7a7cfa82574b6722d

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Zoom Questions

• What was difficult about this task?
• How does this relate to teamwork?
• What type of communication did you use to
  complete the task? What other strategies could
  have been used?
• What kind of leadership skills were used to
  complete the task?

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Elevate an Apple
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