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Steps for Teaching Success

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Unveil beliefs, vision, and mission

Beliefs guide our work, our words, our actions…what are your individual beliefs about teaching and learning?

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~ Capture your team’s shared beliefs ~ The beliefs you have in common

Your team’s shared beliefs are cornerstone of your collaboration as partners. These beliefs will guide your words and actions as a team and contribute to how you function as a cohesive unit.

WE BELIEVE…

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Unveil beliefs, vision, and mission

A vision statement is about significant improvement, the difference you want to make, and where you want to end up as a teaching team.

OUR VISION

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Unveil beliefs, vision, and mission

A mission puts your vision into practice. What will you do to bring forth your vision ?

OUR MISSION

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Unveil beliefs, vision, and mission

The vision and mission should link together since the mission explains how you will realize your vision.

Unveil beliefs, vision and mission

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OUR VISION and MISSION

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Name operating standards

• Listen to understand.

• Complete activities on time.

• Participate and contribute to the team.

• Respect each other.

• Offer help willingly.

• Be organized and prepared.

• Insert other standards that are important to your team

A high performing teaching team is guided by core set of standards that promote positive interactions and efficiency. Operating standards foster a basic discipline for high performance teamwork.

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BOUNDLESS LEARNING TEACHING: Operating Standards

Identify six high performance teaming principles

LOOKS LIKE..SOUNDS LIKE..FEELS LIKE

POSITIVE INTERDEPENDENCE“Sink or Swim Together”

• Demonstration of an understanding that all members of the partnership are vital to reaching the team’s goals

• Support of one another to maximize your individual and team potential

INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTABILITY“No Free Riders”

• Demonstration of an understanding that all team members share equal responsibility in all aspects of planning for classroom instruction.

PERFORMANCE MONITORING“Check it out”

• Assessment of the teaching team’s progress in reaching team goals and demonstration of teaming principles and operating standards

• Shared decision making about areas of improvement and change

ENGAGEMENT & MOMENTUM“Energize and Execute”

• Active involvement of all team members in every aspect: planning, implementation, assessment

• Frequent and purposeful interactions

• Collaborative data analysis, problem-solving, and exchange of information and resources

• Energy, involvement, interactions of the teaching team benefits students

COLLABORATIVE COMPETENCE“All for One and One for All”

• Competence and cooperation in planning, implementing, managing, and evaluating teaching

• Positive conflict resolution

TECHNOLOGY OPTIMIZATION“Power Up and Produce”

• Use of technology to fulfill teaching responsibilities

• Shared responsibility for integrating technology tools that improve student performance and learning

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Target goalsGoals direct planning and teaching activities and provide benchmarks for teachers to assess progress throughout the year.

Specific with clear outcomes of what you want to accomplish

Measurable indication of what you accomplished

Attainable through a series of action steps

Results-oriented toward targeted change

Time-bound with clear action steps across a manageable timeline

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TIMELINESPECIFIC, MEASURABLE

TARGETSRESULTS

November 4 Bi-Weekly planning meetings Support for planning lessons in grade levels

GOALS: (example)By November 4, our collegial consultation partnership will meet bi-weekly to help support each other as we plan lessons for our grade level as evidenced by our weekly calendars and lesson plans.

Establish team identity

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S Share 3 – 5 interests, activities, work style, etc.

I Identify commonalities & differences

G Generate team name that reflects your beliefs

N Notify stakeholders (administrators, students, colleagues, parents ) of your team identity

Determine logistics for working together

Logistics is about managing the flow of information, resources, and people’s needs in order to meet the goals of a group/team or organization. It is developing a support system that moves a program forward.

Come up with one creative way for meeting and supporting each other as we implement the LIFT initiative.

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Logistics*