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Purpose: To ultimately enhance the quality of our school environment and the effectiveness of our teaching. . Goals: Participants will?Get to know each other better to enhance our collegiality and productivity.Reflect on some beliefs that impact our personal and professional interactions.Reflect on how we can practice positive strategies in school or at home..
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1. Beliefs and Their Impact
Fall Meeting, Central Texas Council of Teachers of Mathematics
October 8, 2009
Cynthia L. Schneider, Ph.D.
cschneider@mail.utexas.edu
2. Purpose: To ultimately enhance the quality of our school environment and the effectiveness of our teaching.
4. But first the context…. Belief Systems
Mission/Vision/Values
6. Facilitator Notes: Recommendations include the 5 positive strategies on p. 86, the ratio on p. 56, the reality check on p.57, the making it personal on p. 79.
? (10 min) Take 1-2 minutes to reflect individually. Then have a table discussion. Identify a reporter that will be willing to share one of your answers to these questions.
? (15 min) Popcorn out to whole group example or answers to these questions.
Facilitator Notes: Recommendations include the 5 positive strategies on p. 86, the ratio on p. 56, the reality check on p.57, the making it personal on p. 79.
? (10 min) Take 1-2 minutes to reflect individually. Then have a table discussion. Identify a reporter that will be willing to share one of your answers to these questions.
? (15 min) Popcorn out to whole group example or answers to these questions.
8. Facilitator Notes:
? (15 min) Take 3-4 minutes to jot down your individual ideas; have a table discussion about these questions. Be ready to share 2 book references about the causes and impact of a negative culture and one example of the difference between negativity and constructive criticism, have a recorder capture these ideas on a post-it note.
? (10 min) Facilitators will collect references and examples generated by groups on sticky notes and place them on poster paper, facilitator will share consequences with the whole group. (So we’re only debriefing orally on the consequences.)
Facilitator Notes:
? (15 min) Take 3-4 minutes to jot down your individual ideas; have a table discussion about these questions. Be ready to share 2 book references about the causes and impact of a negative culture and one example of the difference between negativity and constructive criticism, have a recorder capture these ideas on a post-it note.
? (10 min) Facilitators will collect references and examples generated by groups on sticky notes and place them on poster paper, facilitator will share consequences with the whole group. (So we’re only debriefing orally on the consequences.)
10. Facilitator Notes: This is about delving in to the Five Strategies and giving folks an opportunity to brainstorm ways they can see these being used.
? (10 min) Take 1-2 minutes to self-reflect; have a table discussion.
? (10 min) Free choice to create a summary of each table’s discussion into a two-minute report. (Act it out, sing a song, make a poster, mime, draw a picture, etc.)
? (30 min) Have each group make their two-minute report to the whole group.
Facilitator Notes: This is about delving in to the Five Strategies and giving folks an opportunity to brainstorm ways they can see these being used.
? (10 min) Take 1-2 minutes to self-reflect; have a table discussion.
? (10 min) Free choice to create a summary of each table’s discussion into a two-minute report. (Act it out, sing a song, make a poster, mime, draw a picture, etc.)
? (30 min) Have each group make their two-minute report to the whole group.
23. Positive Strategies Catch yourself before uttering a negative comment
Shine a light on what is right
Make best friends
Give unexpectedly
Do unto others as they would have you do unto them (Reverse the Golden Rule)
From How Full is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life by Tom Rath and Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D. (2004)
Big Ideas by Chapter according to the Design Team discussion on June 5:
Chap. 1 Negativity Kills
We all have a bucket
How full our bucket is determines how well we are doing
Chap. 2 Positivity, Negativity, and Productivity
Examples
Praise should be meaningful to the person being praised
Distinguish between negativity and constructive criticism
Chap. 3 Every Moment Matters
Frequency of positive and negative comments
Culture of negativity, we in the U.S. have a weakness-based approach
Chap. 4 Tom’s Story: An Overflowing Bucket
Focus on the positive does not imply ignorance of the negative
Chap. 5 Making It Personal
Individualize, individualize, individualize
Chap. 6 Five Strategies for Increasing Positive Emotions
Five strategies
Big Ideas by Chapter according to the Design Team discussion on June 5:
Chap. 1 Negativity Kills
We all have a bucket
How full our bucket is determines how well we are doing
Chap. 2 Positivity, Negativity, and Productivity
Examples
Praise should be meaningful to the person being praised
Distinguish between negativity and constructive criticism
Chap. 3 Every Moment Matters
Frequency of positive and negative comments
Culture of negativity, we in the U.S. have a weakness-based approach
Chap. 4 Tom’s Story: An Overflowing Bucket
Focus on the positive does not imply ignorance of the negative
Chap. 5 Making It Personal
Individualize, individualize, individualize
Chap. 6 Five Strategies for Increasing Positive Emotions
Five strategies