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Building a New Teacher Learning Community: An Alternative to “Sit and Get”

Building a New Teacher Learning Community: An Alternative to “Sit and Get”. Carole Einhorn , NBCT CCSD15 carolee1920@gmail.com. Session Outcomes…. Participants will: Review key characteristics of millennials and implications for professional development

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Building a New Teacher Learning Community: An Alternative to “Sit and Get”

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  1. Building a New Teacher Learning Community: An Alternative to “Sit and Get” Carole Einhorn, NBCT CCSD15 carolee1920@gmail.com

  2. Session Outcomes… • Participants will: • Review key characteristics of millennials and implications for professional development • Enhance understanding of essential elements of a developmentally appropriate new teacher learning community • Explore structures and strategies to facilitate new teacher learning communities • Apply session information to their own programs

  3. “The easiest and fastest way to learn is from other people. Without other people, the old wheel must be reinvented again and again and again.” — Anonymous

  4. Millennials in the Work Place “This generation has had so many positive messages about their life and what they can do….When they come into the workplace, it might be the first time they have had the opportunity to hear that they need to improve…With some Millennials it can be a challenge to hear direct and honest feedback. How does this impact your program?

  5. What Millennials Want… • Collaboration/Teamwork • Flexibility • Informality • Appreciation for their efforts and accomplishments • Opportunities for professional development • Clear goals and purposes • Support and structure within limits • Honest, real-time, constructive feedback • Opportunities for networking • Mentoring/Coaching Adapted from Maximizing Millennials in the Workplace, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, 2012

  6. What Millennials Need… • Comfortable, safe learning environment which inspires them to • contribute and take risks without fear of being criticized • Opportunities to collaborate and network with peers • Training in how to work with team members assertively and • diplomatically • Training in how to process feedback and work with a mentor/coach • Discussion and reflection on key issues about which they may be • totally unaware. • Time to reflect on current practice and experiences • Clear learning targets • Structured tasks that allow for flexibility and freedom of expression Adapted from Maximizing Millennials in the Workplace, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, 2012

  7. Meet Them Where They Are At… Many first year teachers are “unconsciously unskilled”. They don’t know what they don’t know.

  8. So, How Do We Build it?

  9. Key Things to Consider…. • School/District/Region Context • Other already-existing professional development • opportunities • # of novice teachers • Desirable frequency and duration of meetings • Availability of release time • Available facilitators/teacher leaders • Possibility of partnerships • Other available resources

  10. What is a New Teacher Learning Community? • Groups of novice teachers working collaboratively to: • reflect on current practice • address needs/concerns • engage in structured inquiry processes to explore best practices • improve their effectiveness as educators • Key features: • ongoing • Embedded within context-specific needs of a particular setting • Grounded in a collaborative, inquiry-based approach to learning How is this different than a typical PLC? You need both!

  11. Purposeful Conversations… A purposeful conversation has an underlying goal related to teaching and learning. In the new teacher learning community, conversations become the lifeblood of professional learning , and the nature of those conversations can be very different than those typically found in “business as usual” programs.

  12. Essential Learning Community Behaviors… • Be fully present. (bracket other thoughts and turn off cell phones) • Be self-responsible and self-challenging. • Use “I” language. • Listen, listen, listen. • Take risks, be raggedy, make some mistakes--then let go. • Accept conflict and its resolution as a necessary catalyst for learning. • Be open-minded. • Treat the candidness of others as a gift: Honor Confidentiality.

  13. What Can be the Focus? • Reflection on the Mentor/Protégé relationship • Effective Communication (with staff, parents, students) • Professionalism • Reflection on specific aspects of classroom practice • Building background knowledge on key school/district/region • initiatives What Topics might work for your New Teacher Learning Community?

  14. Protocols Can Provide the Structure… • Consultancy Protocol • Success Analysis Protocol • Triad Protocol • The Four A’s Protocol

  15. What are your ideas? Time to Plan…

  16. Session Evaluation… So, How did we do??

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