101 Tips, Traps, and To-Dos for Creating Teams [microform] : A Guidebook for School Leaders. Guiding Groups To Become Teams, Facilitating Them To Become High-Performance Teams, and Empowering Them To Become Technology-Based Teams / Gerald D. Bailey, Tweed Ross and Gwen L. Bailey.
Using teams is an effective way to meet the challenges of breaking down teacher isolation, halting curriculum fragmentation, and creating a learning organization. This guide is designed to help school leaders train groups to become teams, guide them to become high-performance teams, and empower them...
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | Using teams is an effective way to meet the challenges of breaking down teacher isolation, halting curriculum fragmentation, and creating a learning organization. This guide is designed to help school leaders train groups to become teams, guide them to become high-performance teams, and empower them to become technology-based teams. It contains practical exercises and techniques that have been field-tested by hundreds of practitioners, whose suggestions have been incorporated to make the exercises meaningful for future users. Section 1 presents information and advice on getting teams started, including background information, why one should become a team member, setting agendas, acquiring basic team skills, building unity among team members, making team decisions, dealing with strife in a team environment, and coaching teams. Section 2 focuses on high-performance teams, describing their characteristics, building unity among members, dealing with strife, evaluating team effectiveness, and coaching teams. Section 3 presents technology-based teams, managing different levels of technological expertise, presenting background information, experimenting with technology-based teaming skills, decision-making, dealing with strife, and coaching teams. Each section concludes with a list of suggested readings. (Contains 63 references.) (RT) |
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| Item Description: | Availability: National Educational Service, 1252 Loesch Road, Bloomington, IN 47404 (Item Number BKF00069, Educational level discussed: Elementary Secondary Education. ERIC Document Number: ED470024. |
| Physical Description: | 378 pages. |
| Audience: | Administrators. Practitioners. Teachers. |
| ISBN: | 9781879639614 : 1879639610 : |
| Reproduction Note: | Microfiche. |
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