Collaborative Teacher Teams

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Collaborative Teacher Teams Successful Mapping
Requires Working Together Map and Talk and
Map and Talk
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• How Do Collaborative Teams Function?
• Work interdependently to achieve common goals
  always
• linked to student learning
• Learn by doing map talkmap talkmap
  talk
• Remembering that the maps hold the data for
  conversation and
• change.
• Analyze assessment data together
• Develop common language
• Analyze gaps, repetitions, meaningless
  redundancies in
• the curriculum
• Discussing mapping data
• Modifying mapping data based on conversations
• Learning about each other and ourselves
• Helps us focus our work
• It is easier to move ahead if we can agree on
  where we are going
• (Source Susan Udelhofen 2008 Curriculum Mapping
  Summer Institute)

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Who Are We?

• Depending upon when we were born we bring unique
• characteristics to the workplace and learning
• environment.
• Who are you?
• Who are you teaching?
• Who are your colleagues?
• Sources
• Generations at Work Managing the Clash of
  Veterans, Boomers, Xersand Nexters in Your
  Workplace by R. Zemke, C. Raines and R.
  Filipczak,
• published by WACOM Publishing in 2000.
• Law Practice Today, August 2004, by Diane
  Thielfoldt and Devon Scheef
• Boomers, Gen-xers Millenials (July/Aug. 2003),
  Diana Oblinger. EDUCAUSE
• Susan Udelhofen 2008 Curriculum Mapping Summer
  Institute

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Source Susan Udelhofen 2008 Curriculum Mapping
Summer Institute
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• Most Recent Information About the Millennials
• Less inclined to rely on traditional media for
• current events
• Highest interest in volunteerism than past 25
  years
• More educated with fewer gender and ethnicity
• barriers
• For those with less education the outlook is
  worse
• than 50 years ago
• More tolerant and open-minded than past
• generations
• Decline in face-to-face social skills in a
  tech-dominated
• world (Cell Phones, Instant Messaging,
• MySpace, Facebook,Twitter)
• Source USA Today, June 29, 2006, Susan
  Udelhofen Curriculum Mapping Summer Institute

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How Can We Talk Productively? What is
needed? If youre going to talk together
we need rules for engagement http//www.simpletr
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Building the Foundation Norms of
Collaboration Pausing wait time, allowing
others to speak Paraphrasing using reflective
stems, to summarize what the speaker has said
Probing for specificity asking questions for
clarification Putting ideas on the table
explaining reasons, revealing information, state
intention of communication Paying attention to
yourself others being aware of mood and
relevance of my own and others actions
Presuming positive intentions presume others
mean well, restrain from emotional outbursts
Pursuing a balance of advocacy inquiry seeking
a balance of advocating my own ideas and
inquiring of others,disagree respectfully
(Source Susan Udelhofen 2008 Curriculum Mapping
Institute)
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• Effective Advocacy
• Guidelines for Discussing Issues
• State Your assumptions
• Here is what I think
• Describe your reasoning
• This is why I believe this
• Give concrete examples
• Let me share this example
• Reveal your perspective
• Understand that this is from the perspective of
  a new teacher
• Anticipate other perspectives
• Some teachers are likely to question
• Acknowledge area of uncertainty
• Could you help me understand
• Invite others to questions your assumptions and
  conclusions
• What do you think about my idea?
• Sources - Learning by Doing by DuFour DuFour,
  Susan Udelhofen 2008 Curriculum Mapping Summer
  Institute