working together” (pp. 126-127). It is important for schools to develop a culture of collaboration as a core principle within their respective schools. How can these core principles sustain the collaboration model until it becomes a job-embedded culture within the school day? DuFour (2004) indicated there are three big ideas that can help schools develop and sustain the collaborative culture. The first big idea is ensuring that students learn. Collaborative teams can engage in the four essential questions:
• What do we want each student to learn?
• How will we know when each student has learned?
• How will we respond when a student experiences difficulty in learning?
• How will we respond when a student already knows it?
The second big
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475). Today’s school climates demand that teachers no longer work in isolation, but as collaborative teams. Tuckman’s research on forming of groups can provide valuable information for educational leaders and instructors to build high functioning, collaborative teams that have the end result of improved student achievement in mind. Collaborative teams must build capacity within team members if they are going to be truly effective. Fullan (2010) described capacity of the individual or organization to make the necessary changes required and involving the development of knowledge, skills, and commitments. He further described collective capacity as the increased ability of educators at all levels of the system to make the necessary instructional changes required to raise the bar and close the gap for all students. Collaboration and capacity building is essential and it is the responsibility of every person within the organization. Utilizing the Teacher Leadership Model Standards will help all members of collaborative teams grow, build capacity, and help all students achieve at high …show more content…
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Collective perspectives may be seen in classrooms, across campuses, within districts, or even within corporations. The culture, teachings, and beliefs of a unit of thinking become the platform for transformational learning for the leader.
According to Blase, Blase, and Phillips (2010) educational leaders in high preforming schools effectively balance administrative and instructional leadership and provide stability, predictability and support. The current paradigm of educational leadership is management of facility, budget, school safety, and student discipline. Administrators must place more emphasis on methods to balance the responsibility of instructional leadership. It will require effective leadership characterized by their ability to redesign their schools into an effective organization. This can be done by a leader’s willingness to take risk. Risk taking would involve the leaders’ commitment to work collaboratively with teachers to set school wide and classroom goals suited to meet the unique needs of the students. It would require educational leaders to refuse to adopt a manufactured educational program but to make a commitment to their students and teachers to create a learning environment that is unique and relevant. Educational leaders would evaluate teachers on the effectiveness of their instructional practices. Each teacher would be held accountable for data that supports the need for goals developed for their classroom and methods used to track progress, use of instructional strategies, how assessment will be incorporated to drive instruction and monitor learning, and the effective use of assessment
According to our text, Communicating at Work, an effective team has eight characteristics. These characteristics are: clear and inspiring shared goals; a results driven structure; competent team members; unified commitment; collaborative climate; standards of excellence; external support and recognition; and principled leadership. A group goes through four stages in becoming an effective team; forming, storming, norming, and performing (Adler and Elmhorst, 240, 251). Most of the characteristics of an effective team are brought to the team by one or more members, others are formed during the development process.
Keys to Successful Team Communication People tend to have different ideas about what constitutes good communication. It is important to define communication and ways to build effective communication within teams, in order to have a successful team output. Some people think of communication solely as speaking, but it should be stressed that up to 90% of communication can be listening to fellow team members, and only 10% talking (Lay, 2008). There are different aspects of effective communication that should be discussed by the group when it is initially formed.
Groups are defined as two or more people who work regularly with one another to achieve common goals (Schermerhorn, Hunt, & Osborn, 2005, Chapter 9). For a group to become a high-performance team, the team needs to be able to use their collective skills and behaviors to become an efficient model working towards a common goal. Having a common goal will make each team member accountable for the success and failure of the team. Since each team member is accountable to the team, each member's behavior will have an effect on the team. Cultural diversity and demographic characteristics affect an individual's behavior. Behavior caused by diversity and demographic characteristics will be a determining factor whether or not a group can be a high-performance team.
Harper Lee’s most popular novel is To Kill A Mockingbird. The novel is set in a town in southern Alabama called Maycomb County, during the Great Depression. The main character Scout Finch is a young white girl who learns valuable lessons throughout the story. Since the novel is set from a child’s perspective there are many things she does not understand, and we see her grow up and learn from her experiences. Throughout the story we see Scout starting to understand what her town and the people in it are really like.
Team Dynamics is how a group of two or more that works together for a common goal. One definition of a team is: two or more individuals associated in some joint action. (Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary (1976). In the business & education world, these joint actions should have some mission or objective that achieves results like a research paper. My Team C has come together with a common goal: Writing a successful paper for week 5 on “What safeguards exist currently to ensure academic honesty & are they working?” For this to be possible we must learn how to work as a team.
Interdisciplinary collaboration Interdisciplinary teamwork is an important model for delivering healthcare to patients in the primary care setting. Teamwork is the motivational force that’s needed in order to be successful in any organization (Harris et al., 2016). An interdisciplinary team is a team that is created by a several individuals from different backgrounds that comes together to help solve a problem or fix a particular situation (Harris et al., 2016). A well-constructed interdisciplinary team allows interprofessionals to collaborate and exchange ideas that could create the best possible outcome. The interdisciplinary team created for this EBP change project include the following: • One medical assistant check-in patients, obtaining patients weight, blood pressure, collect random blood sugars, and help administer pre and posttest; • One practice site manager help promote and recruit participants and help guide EBP change project; • Internal Medicine Physician/Practice owner/Clinical liaison serve as clinical expert and offer assistance to project leader; • One doctor of nurse practice prepared family primary care nurse practitioner as the EBP project preceptor.
As a professional working in the mental health field, one is often part of a team of professionals working with a client. Teamwork within the healthcare field is vital to the effective treatment of patients. When each member of the team has the same goals and fosters communication, a better work environment can be created; however, this is not always the case. The current study introduces the clinical team working with an 8-year-old client with multiple diagnoses and delays, who are not functioning effectively as a team. Although all seem to have Connor’s best interests at heart, they struggle with how to best achieve the goal.
In order for a work place to be successful and beneficial to everyone involve in the company, teams needs to be form, and each team must have a goal in mind. Employees must come together to accomplish a common goal. Teamwork will not only benefit those involve in the project but it will also have a huge impact in your business.
In building leadership capacity it is important to ensure that there is broad-based skillful participation. We want the students, parents, community, and staff to be participants. This is important because it allows for staff to take responsibility for the growth and development for not only themselves but for their peers in doing the work of leadership. It is helpful to have the community working together towards the common goal as opposed to ...
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Working in teams provides an opportunity for individuals to come together and establish a rapport towards others within a group. Teamwork is classified as people with different strengths and skills who work together to achieve a common goal. When a team works well, specific objectives are fulfilled and satisfied. Teamwork plays a crucial role in implementing and fulfilling a common goal in a team project. Each member plays a role and takes on different responsibilities combined together. In different stages of teamwork, conflicts and arguments may occur for as members have different standpoints which need to be harmonized within the team. The key to having an effective teamwork is to explore each member's unique abilities to motivate them.
Collaborative leaders have a positive impact in schools. Even though principals are responsible in leading the whole school, those that have the ability to inspire their teachers to follow and share his or her vision, will make a positive impact. Interaction between leader and teacher is necessary to make positive changes. Allowing teachers to participate openly and respectfully creates trust and confidence. Teachers that trust their principals and feel are taken into consideration will work harder to meet and exceed expectations. Honesty, communication, confidence and respect between leader and teacher will lead to great team work.