1. To do
 Wi fi
 Jump to cmptr
 Sound to bose
 Blank sheets
 Water

2. Teaming
Jim Forde
fordemm@aol.com
@stemnetwork
http://mrforde.blogspot.com

3. DO NOW:Teaming Concept
map
TEAMING

4. Who am I?
 Science/Tech teacher (20+ yrs exp.)
 Worked with Brian Olkowski in Stamford
(We spent a week in New Delhi together.)
 Father of 22 and 17 year olds- Married 24 years.
My wife is from Columbia, CT and went to Windham
HS. (She’s a Whippet.)
 Tech Geek
Have +2K followers on Twitter (@stemnetwork)

5. Goals
 I will have a better understanding of teaming.
 I know I will “get it” when I can identify…
 My teaming needs
 Where our team is in Tuckman’s model
 What great teams do
 What the characteristics of a great team meeting are

6. Agenda
 Intro – Pre-assessment (10 min.)
 Teaming Activity + processing (25 min.)
 Your teaming needs and where are you? (20 min.)
 What great teams do (15 min.)
 Team development process (15 min.)
 High Impact Team meetings (25 min.)
 Poll Everywhere/Post- Asessment (10 min.)

7. Activity

9. Google as a timer.

10. What can we learn about teaming
from this experience?
 What were you needs?
 What teams succeeded and why?
 What improves performance?
 What could have helped, prior to taking on
this task together?

12. Activity Link:
http://www.ted.com/talks/tom_
wujec_build_a_tower#t-9818

13. What are your best
working conditions?
• List three needs you have
• Discuss with neighbor
• Create a list as a table to share (poster paper)
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• Share these at your first team meeting in order to create
“team norms” for the year
•Consider displaying them and revisiting them
quarterly…”Is this still who we are?”)

14. Team Yardstick
 Take it now
 Discuss with a new
neighbor.
 Take as a pre-test and
post-test later in the
year to assess team
effectiveness

16. Team
meeting
form

18. Team Development Process

20. Forming

21. Storming

22. Norming

23. Transforming

24. High Impact Team Meetings

25. Looking at Student Work

26. Looking at Teacher Work

27. Looking at Student Data

28. Meeting Foci
A- Day -- Academic
B-Day – Guidance/Focus kids/
Advisory
C-Day – Data/Team goals
D- Day- ADMIN

29. Some extras….
•Meeting Assessment
•Observer Form
•Action Plan Sheet
•(for fun) Whining Rubric

30. DO NOW:Teaming Concept
map
TEAMING

31. Homework
 Generate team norms utilizing your “best working
conditions” list
 Take a team yard stick pre-assessment a couple of
weeks into the school year …… and then at some
agreed upon benchmark times.
 Utilize a tuning protocol during a meeting in September
to look at teacher or student work together.

32. Feedback

33. Secret formula for
many teams?

35. 5
dysfunctions
of a team