According to our textbook, there are five stages that develop throughout group development. The five stage group development model characterizes group as forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. The forming stage is characterized by a great deal of uncertainty about the group’s purpose, structure, and leadership. The storming stage is one of intergroup conflict. The norming stage is complete when the group structure solidifies and the group has assimilated a common set of expectations of what defines correct member behavior. The performing stage is the structure at this point is fully functional and accepted. The last stage which is the adjourning is for wrapping up activities and preparing to disband.
As I reflect on the
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Their main focus is on developing an after school program that will combine the nonprofit social service agency’s skills in raising private money and coordinating community leaders with the educational expertise of the school staff. If everyone that’s involved is in agreement with the groups forming process, the process should have a smooth flow. The assembled groups should include people who are committed to working together and ready to assist to bringing quality back into the foundation. The members who were chosen to participate in this program were chosen for a reason.
In forming a group, there will always be conflict to some degree. In the Building a Coalition Case Study, there are three different groups from which members of the group will be pulled from. The foundation, school system and parental groups, the National Coalition for Parental involvement in Education will
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Looking at the strengths and weaknesses in all that’s involved will help to place individuals in the group or areas were they would be most beneficial. Ari Kaufman’s belief is that the kids are the most important, and is well liked among the kids. He could have a greater influence over the kids than any other faculty member. Mason Dupree is the community organizer and he also grew up in the neighborhood, so he would have a more positive influence on the parents as well as the kids. When an individual has had similar issues as Mason as a child, he can relate to the parents and kids in the school district. His understanding of how to deal with these issues will be good in making sure that everything is followed through. Meredith Watson agrees that the Woodson Foundation School has become less focused on the families. Meredith believes that there is too much waste in the system and unnecessary duplications of jobs. She believes that change processes are needlessly convoluted. She would be an asset in the areas of reducing waste and increase parental responsibility. In supporting the schools entrepreneur Theodore Woodson hallmark’s way of doing business, on emphasizing efficiency and experimentation in everything he did. His focus was minimizing cost while providing excellent services. This is where the focus should still be and in return will generate the checks and
I had the pleasure of being able to shadow Superintendent Shirley Hall of the Maplewood School District. Ms. Hall took the reins of the district over in 2012 from a very popular superintendent who was credited with making great strides within the district. Although Ms. Hall had very large shoes to fill, she seems to be doing it with grace and enthusiasm. She credits the previous superintendent with making systemic changes and establishing the overall forward momentum of the district, but recognizes that she cannot rest on past success. Her goal is to take the district to the next level of educational excellence by focusing her and her administrative team's efforts on the P.E.L.P. coherence model from Harvard University. This model focuses the leadership's attention on the interdependence of the various aspects of their school district and how they reinforce one another to support the implementation of an improvement strategy. One of Ms. Hall's mantras was change, but not just for change sake, deep change for sustained improvement. Therefore, although Ms. Hall's predecessor was able to put the district on the right path, Ms. Hall has taken the baton and run with it; establishing her own style and path to excellence.
As a leader candidate, I can understand the challenges and multiplicity of complications that administrators must face each day. However, I will not accept any remote possibility that the students must be affected by some flaws of the school organization. We all as leaders, must be strategic with people, time, and money to guide our students towards an academic success.
An effective team typically develops through several stages. Tuckman and Jensen developed a model for how teams should develop that includes five stages: forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning (as cited in Martin ,2006 and Fulk, Bell,& Bodie ,2011). In forming, the first stage in team development, team members are introduced to the team’s purpose and goals(Martin, 2006 ; Fulk et al. ,2011). Fulk et al. (2011) explain that members are usually motivated and excited about working together to accomplish the specific goal, but they point out that interactions among team members can be affected by uncertainty about purpose, anxiety, mistrust ,and reluctance to share ideas and opinions. Nevertheless, despite such uncertainties, team members usually avoid conflict and move on to the next stage, storming(Fulk et al.,2011). Unlike the forming stage, the storming stage is marked by conflict (Martin...
Therefore due to previous interaction, I decided to study the leadership of the Brantwood Children’s Home here in Montgomery, Alabama. Brantwood is a well-known children’s home that provides a place of stability, safety, and structure for abused, neglected, and at-risk children (About Us: Brantwood Children's Home, 2013). There are several types of residential programs that are available through Brantwood such as the basic residential treatment program; the transitional living program; and the independent living program. For each individual program there are age group restriction along with other restrictions. Brantwood also have an on-site educational program for grades 5th through 8th grade. According to the text book from my understanding, Brantwood is an example of the fourth type of organization that was presented.
Tuckman reviewed, in 1965, 50 articles that were dealing by the time with stages in development of groups. Tuckman´s purpose was to review this literature and through evaluation and extrapolation of the general concepts, be able to suggest and formulate a general model applicable to most of group development cases (Tuckman, 1965).
The PTO of the school realizes that the school is in need of parent support and involvement. There is not enough parent support to develop a wholesome committee. The school is still in need of a Vice President and Secretary to operate the committee successfully. Although administration and teachers are involved in this organization, parents should be also, as the PTO primary goals are to promote child welfare in the home, school, and community. Looking at the community involvement from the PTO viewpoint more support is needed from the community also. Nevertheless, they extend their invitation to local business and non-parent supporters surrounding the school to have their voice and opinion heard concerning school and community issues, but there are...
Norming- The norming stage is where everything begins to get clear because the leader takes responsibility and everyone else accept their roles and position in the team. Agreement forms among the team members. Team may engage in more discussions and other activities. Leader ship is also shared by other team members at times. Respect is shown to the leader.
Bruce Tuckman maintains that there are four stages of group development, forming, storming, norming, and performing. These stages are all essential and unavoidable in order for a group to mature, overcome challenges, find solutions, plan work, and produce effective results. (University of Washington, 2013)
Likewise, members informed the audience to do SAC so teachers, students, and parents can have a greater communication among the community. Not to mention, what was also found amusing was people talking about how they feel and got to bring up their concerns about the students education, whether the students parent, teacher or principal at the meeting. Also Aniagon donated $10,000 to the school for higher quality education for the students. Near the end of meeting, registered speakers talked for three minutes to identify organization that they wanted to represented to the members of the chairs at the school board meeting. The first speaker was a student who went to a charter school; she explained her success and why she wants, Stetson, her school to stay open. The next speaker was a parent who explains why he wants Stetson Charter School to stay open. In addition, numerous community members spoke about in need for help in quality schools and want to know what schools are being closed. Also they voiced their dislikes of the way school board functions applies to schools and cited things that needed to be done. Plus a community member inquired for a fulltime position with problemed children at the school where she works. Another community member announced displeasure for schools to be privatizing and how she is against
For my psychology interview assignment, I had the privilege of interviewing Elaine, who is the Director of Preschool X, which is an educational institution. She reports that she has been in this position for 13 years since its inception. Elaine is a close friend of my aunt, which was how I was able to meet her. She explained that her responsibilities include; the hiring of all personnel related to the school, submission of criminal background checks, the medical reports for all staff and children must be current, and also developed a curriculum for the teachers to execute. She has parent meetings and she deals with parents on a daily basis. For any arising issues, Elaine conferences with parents at least once or twice a week. Have weekly staff meetings regarding the curriculum. She also plays the role as the educational event coordinator, where she would “invite people from the dinosaur museum or alley pond park to come over to her preschool, to enrich the children”.
When first being introduced to a group, it can be quite stressful trying to figure out how you and your team members are going to function together. As with any group, there are a few milestones that need to be reached in order to ensure a functional and successful relationship. Specifically, groups need to go through Tuckman’s Group Development Stages. These stages consist of forming, storming, norming, performing, and in some scenarios, a final stage of adjourning may be reached. After participating in this assignment, we as a group were easily able to identify, and analyze, each stage of our development.
They saw a list of challenges the traditional schools went through such as: achievement scores were consistently low or falling, students were unhappy and/or unmotivated, parents were ignored, community members were disengaged, and school staff did not believe they could affect student learning. They assisted them in undertaking a school reform. They had no intention on introducing them to a professional learning community but the actions guided them to a professional learning community philosophy. The areas they were failing in improved drastically. They were organizational structures, focus of improvement work, personal and social dynamics, contextual influences, and leadership and saw significant improvements in these
The stages of team development are forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. Norming is the first stage that involves team members getting to know each other and trying to figure out where they fit in. As a leader, it is important to provide clear directions and set proper goals and expectations during this stage. Storming is the next stage and as the name suggest it is characterized with struggles, challenges, conflicts, and competition among team members. During this stage, I will provide a mediating role and facilitate conversations that steers the team towards the right
Levin and Schrum (2017) describe norming where people feel like members of a team and realize as members of the team they can achieve work if they can accept other team members viewpoints. In this stage, members begin to accept others as they are and make an effort to be themselves and move on. Members must be focused on preventing conflict they are reluctant to share any controversial ideas. Tuckman’s fourth stage of group development is performing. Levin and Schrum (2017) describe this stage as where team members work in an open and trusting atmosphere where flexibility is the key and hierarchy is of little importance.
The first stage in developing a team as it relates to group dynamics is forming, this is the stage where team members come together and they question what they are therefore, who else is a part of the team, who they are comfortable with, and this enables them to get involved as well as allowing the team the opportunity to introduce themselves to each other. The second stage is storming, and in this stage the team members begin to voice their opinions and differences as well as align themselves with others who share their same beliefs. This is an important stage for the team because team members will begin to become more involved with one another, and when they voice their concerns, they can feel like they are being represented and understood. The third stage is norming in the stage team members begin to establish a shared common commitment to the purpose of why the team is there, where they can establish their overall goals and how the goals are going to be achieved. In the fourth stage, known as performing, the team works effectively and efficiently to gather towards achieving the goal.