Transcript middle school high performing teams

You have been given:
• A quote
• Four levels of understanding sheet
Please read the quote to yourself and reflect through the four
levels of understanding. Record your thinking. (5 minutes)
Be prepared to share your insights with a colleague. (5 minutes)
What is a high performing team?
• Classrooms
• Grade Level
• Content Area
• Personal Life
Stages of creating high
performing groups/classrooms
• Security Stage: establish an atmosphere where students
can relate without hesitancy or discomfort and where trust
begins to develop
• Acceptance Stage: develop cohesiveness amongst students,
“connectedness”. We must care and feel cared for as a person
before we are willing to disclose and be supportive of others.
• Responsibility Stage: Students all have the need to be
respected - holding ourselves and others accountable, becoming
responsible for ones behaviors, feelings and thoughts.
Stages continued…
•
Work Stage: The atmosphere are relationships in the
student groups allow us to:
1) Examine our personal fears without fear of
judgment, reprisals or rejection
2) Explore alternatives for problem solving
3) Experiment with new behaviors in a safe
environment prior to risking them in the outside
world
Stages continue…
• Closing Stage: students actively pursue new behaviors
and attitudes outside the group, while still experiencing
the support, encouragement, and positive pressure of the
group
• Where are you in the stages of developing
highly effective teams and individuals?
Relational Capacity
We have to earn the right to
give feedback.
Relational Capacity is the capacity within a
relationship to withstand the struggles and issues
of life.
If our goal is to have highperforming, self-managing teams
then…
 Where
do these goals settle in your own
professional lives?
 Where are you in the process?