Team Work Skills.

Whether you are a teacher or a learner there is little doubt in my mind that in order to be successful in either field a certain degree of team ... learning would take place. Equally many other so called team skills have in my opinion an important place in the classroom. Before I retired I had the pleasure of developing team working skills [more...]

Date: 2009-03-02 10:06:00

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What a slap in the face.

Today started out pretty exciting. When I walked into the main office to see who I was subbing for today, ... my own classroom, as I explained not too long ago in this post. I was so excited to finally ... a part of something. During 8th period, I went to meet with the team of teachers that I’d be working [more...]

Date: 2008-10-20 20:26:11

Strategies for Making Professional Development Work

Image by superkimbo in BKK via FlickrThis is part 2 of a two-part post ... so that one teacher covers while his/her team teacher is engaged in PD activitiesincrease class size by a couple ... teams of teachers or a more systemic plan for time when all teachers were free from classroom [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 18:35:00

Tech Tools for Teams: Collaborate Using Twitter

By Bill Ferriter Bill Ferriter, Solution Tree Associate and sixth grade classroom teacher, ... as a member of a highly motivated professional learning team: Collaboration may be incredibly ... professional learning community (PLC)-whether it be a traditional team of teachers working [more...]

Date: 2009-02-17 14:22:54

Learning 2.008: Further Reflections

Edubloggercon at Learning 2.008 As I settle back into life in Qatar after being in Shanghai the full realisation of the power and potential that is ... the direction of Jeff Utecht and the team of organisers, including the hard-working Flat Classroom ... from classroom teachers, coordinators, librarians and others telling their stories of Web 2.0 [more...]

Date: 2008-09-27 12:36:00

Writer's Wednesday with Barbara Hannay

Harlequin Romance's Barabara Hannay is with us today...talking about work and how it can be anything but! ... the framework of a corporate team building workshop. So, of course, my first task was to find team building ... from our normal classroom work and with no students around and a playful atmosphere, the teachers [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 00:00:00

Education and Reform: Personal Reflections on the Duncan Pick

In my time as a high school teacher, I worked for two distinctly different principals ... to attend a four-day “team-building” retreat cooked up by Human Resources evil-doers. Well-dressed twenty-something corporate trainers barraged us with platitudes [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 14:19:00

The Energy to Focus on Change

Many of us are the lone voice of change in our institutions. Some may be lucky to have the support of their administration, or to have a group of teachers ready and willing to change their teaching practice, or even to have a small team to work [more...]

Date: 2008-11-01 05:39:44

At least the teachers get along

The Cincinnati Public Schools have been praised ( including by yours truly ) ... years or more. But districts have several options to comply with the law, and the total staff ... and didn’t work as a team, according to the notes. Seven other schools, while statistically similar [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 19:13:43

Columbia Collaboration in Cambodia

Columbia Collaboration in Cambodia By Tanying Dong, Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2007 and Yoo-Na Kim, ... inclusive education, teacher leadership training and professional development, capacity-building ... have been working toward improving the educational system in rural Cambodia. An eleven-member field team [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 01:59:10

It’s All About Building Trust

Article of Mark Hordes at Managementsite.com Sometimes “Hard Lessons” are The Best Teacher April 17th, 20004 will be a day I will long remember ... else you mentioned?” “We just seem to like them more, they bonded better with our team, had better ... of the day, I learned a very important lesson about working with clients, It’s all about building [more...]

Date: 2009-02-23 09:07:20

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