Staff Day - Team
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There is more variation within schools than between schools.
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Pecha Kucha on 'Team' from staff day October 2012
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There is more variation within schools than between schools.
Classroom isolation leads teachers to fall back on the ‘apprenticeship of observation’ that they undertook as school students
“Schools learn collectively in teams and teachers get better by working in teams on teaching issues.”
(Richard Elmore)
Undergraduate Professional Graduate Advice from Courses Reading Courses Colleague
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Dr Douglas Reeves, The Leadership and Learning Center
“Watching most teams operate in schools is like watching Astroturf grow. “
(Richard Elmore)
Reflection:
Think of a group that you are (or were) part of that learned really well . . . What made it function so well?
Risk-taking
The fallibility model
Distributed leadership
Common purpose
Primal Quest Adventure Race
• 400-600 miles,• Multi-disciplinary, expert teams • Unknown terrain, multiple routes• Challenges: mental and physical exhaustion,
navigational errors, injury• 75-95 teams each year• 55% of teams do not finish• $250,000 purse
Map of Race
Day 1-2
Day 4-5
2004 Race Overview
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70% Conditional Claims
Assertive Claims
TeamPerformance
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How do claims of knowing vary across teams?
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Team talk “let’s”“we”
“Successful schools are more likely to be environments in which teachers are engaged in frequent, continuous, and increasingly concrete and precise talk about teaching practice…”
(Vivian Troen & Kitty Boles)
Conflict is normal, inherent, and essential to community practice and organisational learning.
80% of professional knowledge is built informally
Networks rather than hierarchies
