Title: MSTA Grant PLC Leaders Training Session 1
1MSTA Grant PLC Leaders TrainingSession 1
- Julie Frame-Hansen
- Linda Harvieux
2Fortune Cookie Warm-Up
- How does your fortune relate to your experience
working in a team? - Professional learning community
- Grade-level or content-area team
- Leadership team
3Agenda
- Introductions and structure
- MSTA
- Evolution of the Professional Learning
Community - Technical vs Cultural Change
- First and Second Order Change
- The Role of the PLC Leader and The Four PLC
Questions - Structure of the PLC
- Agendas
- Learning Logs
- Weekly plan
4Scheduling
- How will your team schedule your 4 1 hour
meetings? - Ideas, suggestions, support from leadership
5Professional Learning Communities
- PLCs operate under the assumption that the key
to improved learning for students is continuous,
job-embedded learning for educators. - DuFour, et. al, 2006
6Whats Different About a PLC?
- Read, Evolution of the Professional Learning
Community. - In small groups list differences between a PLC
and a traditional team meeting. - List on chart tablets
7Six Characteristics
- Shared Mission, Vision, Values, and Goals
- Collective Inquiry
- Collaborative Culture
- Action Orientation and Experimentation
- Continuous Improvement
- Focus on Results
8The Four Questions
- What is it we expect the students to learn?
- How will we know when they have learned it?
- How will we respond when they dont learn?
- How will we respond when they already know it?
9Technical Change (First Order)
- Developing Team
- Full participation
- Rotating jobs
- Collecting and sharing data
10Cultural Change (Second Order)
- The Believers
- The Tweeners
- The Survivors
- The Fundamentalists
11Group Process Facilitator
- One who contributes structure and process to
interactions so groups are able to function
effectively. A helper and enabler whose goal is
to support others as they achieve exceptional
performance. - Group Process Facilitation
-
- A way of providing leadership without taking the
reins. A facilitators job is to get others to
assume responsibility, to take the lead, and
engage in meaningful collaboration. -
- -Facilitation At A Glance
12Group Process Facilitators
- Do not have all the answers, are not content
experts - Stay neutral, if you must move out of facilitator
role and into role as participating member of
group identify that move. - Are responsible for room set up that supports
effective teams - Listen demonstrate that you are by using verbal
and non verbal cues. - Paraphrase or clarify for the benefit of all
members of the group. - Watch the time (or appoint a timekeeper)
- Play ping pong redirect questions by sending
to others rather than answering yourself - Use humor appropriate humor!
- Call and identify sidetracks
- Encourage all group members to acknowledge
dysfunctional behaviors as they occur! - Park it sheets record all sidetrack items
- Use the imaginary spell check button spell
creatively - Facilitators At A Glance
13Moving teams toward success
- The teaming goes round and round!
- Forming
- Performing Storming
- Norming
14A team is people doing something together.
- The something that a team does isnt what makes
it a team. . . - the together part is.
15Processes for Groups
- Everyone participate Round Robin, Go Round
- Set the stage
- Focus Attention How do you feel about being
here today? - Check in Something positive that happened in
your professional life since the last meeting? - Check the group to see where its at Round
Robin, Go Round - Check for agreement Thumbs Up, Fist to Five
- Get unstuck
- Look for commonalities, agreement
- Identify polar points What would it take for
this to work for you? - Take a break get up and stretch
- Move on and come back to issue
- Check to see if it can hold until the next
meeting. Perhaps the group needs more
information.
16Mediation/Conflict Resolution
- Issue/Problem
- Alternatives
- Decide
- Act
17- What the first meeting might look like
- Clarify purpose of meeting
- Clarify your role
- Clarify roles of others
- Are there specific tasks that need to be covered,
i.e. recorder? - Check-in, warm up
- Walk through meeting process
- As a group identify norms and procedures or
ground rules - Discussion of the four critical questions or best
practice, what works! - Round up items not discussed including parking
lot ideas - Expected activities prior to next meeting (future
agendas) - Allow members to express how they felt about the
session - (on a scale of 1 5, how do you feel the meeting
went and why - or at the beginning of meeting ask group members
to pick a norm to work on today. At end of
meeting ask them to identify the norm and rate
how they did.
18Developing Norms
- What are norms and why are they important?
- Who should set the norms?
- How should we enforce our norms?
19Norms
- Non-Negotiables
- Define essential learnings and use common
assessments - Everyone participates and works toward the common
goal achievement for all students - Teams make individual norms and honor their team
norms - -adapted from DuFour, et. al.
20Agenda Week 1, PLC development
- Date
Time - Team norms
- Materials needed
- Copies of Professional Learning Communities
Sessions weekly plan, copies of baseline
assessment and rubric. Calendar, equal sign
article, msta notebook - Tasks and topics to be covered
- Check in, Share goal of MSTA, Norms, Structure of
the meeting, times for meetings, assign roles,
future tasks - For next meeting give baseline assessments,
tally data and bring to the meeting, read the
equal sign article
21What is it we expect the students to learn?
Math Success
Its In Our Hands
22Agenda Week 1, part 2
- Date
Time - Team norms
- Materials needed baseline data, article,
- Tasks and topics to be covered
- Share results of the baseline assessment, compare
student strategies, discuss strategies for
teaching the equal sign including informal
assessment strategies for gathering student to
student data - Report baseline data (plc leader)
- For next meeting
- Teach equal sign and gather samples of student
work (informal assessment)
23What is it we expect the students to learn?
How will we know when they have learned it?
Math Success
Its In Our Hands
24Agenda Week 2
- Date
Time - Team norms
- Materials needed sample student work,
observations, msta notebook/binder, copy of
interview - Tasks and topics to be covered
- Reflect on strategies how they worked, share
results of informal assessments, give examples of
students thinking, - Discuss the interview, steps, the rubric,
questioning strategies - For next meeting conduct interview and collect
data, continue to teach strategies
25Agenda Week 3
- Date
Time - Team norms
- Materials needed
- Student interview data, interview results, msta
binder - Tasks and topics to be covered
- Discuss interview results, effectiveness of
questioning strategies, continue to teach
strategies - For next meeting
- Give summative assessment and collate results
26What is it we expect the students to learn?
How will we know when they have learned it?
Math Success
Its In Our Hands
How will we respond when they don't learn?
27Agenda Week 4
- Date
Time - Team norms
- Materials needed
- Summative assessment data and rubric, msta
binder, - Tasks and topics to be covered
- Share results, intervention strategies, discuss
misconceptions and successes, who was successful
and why, how will results influence future
teaching - For next meeting
- Bring all assessments to next math training
- PLC report all summative assessment data
- Complete next baseline assessment for pattern
generalization and bring collated data to next
PLC
28What is it we expect the students to learn?
How will we know when they have learned it?
Math Success
Its In Our Hands
How will we respond when they don't learn?
How will we respond when they already know it?
29- Example is not the main thing in influencing
others, its the only thing. - Albert Schweitzer
30Contact Information
- Julie Frame-Hansen
- julie.frame-hansen_at_metroecsu.org
- 612-638-1508
- Linda Harvieux
- linda.harvieux_at_metroecsu.org
- 612-638-1548