Entering Activity – Consen-o-gram

1. Entering Activity – Consen-o-gram • Acquire two red stickers and place each in the appropriate category based on your answer to the questions listed • This is called a “Consen-o-gram” • Consider ways in which you could implement this in your classroom

2. Harvesting The Teacher Leader Within Southwest Educational Alliance Katie Osteen & Brian Whitson Salisbury High School Rowan-Salisbury Schools

3. Round Robin • Directions: Form a group of two • Each person talks for one minute on an assigned topic or question without any interruption from the other group partner • Then the partners rotate roles

4. Round Robin • Question/Topic: Explain to your partner why you chose to place your red sticker where you did on each question. • Time: 1 minute per partner

5. Rally Robin Follow-up • In the Rally Robin, each partner makes one point (ie, rally) and then the other partner makes another point. • This continues until time is called • Question/Topic: How might you be able to use the Round Robin in a classroom?

6. Stand Up, Hand Up, & Pair Up • Use this technique to quickly group students into pairs • Directions: Stand Up, Raise Your Hand, and Walk Around Until You Find Someone Whose Hand Is Up And Pair Up • Now, we will perform a Round Robin

7. Round Robin, Take 2 • You will speak for one minute, however, each partner will speak on a different topic • Topic #1: What are the characteristics of a good leader • Topic #2: In what ways do teachers embrace leadership?

8. Round Table • Divide up into groups of four • In the Round Table, each member takes turns responding or offering feedback • Each group will be given some quotes to review. Each person should offer some type of response to the quote as it applies to leadership

9. HHP Activity • One partner from each group needs to raise a hand until a large group of 6-7 groups (12-14 people) are formed • During this activity, make sure to observe ways in which leadership occurs

10. Leadership Lessons From Over the Rainbow Modified from a presentation by Allison Hope & Brian Whitson Appalachian State University Graduate Students – Instructional Technology

11. We’re not in Kansas anymore. • The role of the teacher has expanded to include leadership as never before • After your initial ILT experience you are evaluated not only by your performance in the classroom but also by what you contribute to your school community

12. Quotes “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its successes, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.” Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince (1532) “People don’t resist change. They resist being changed.” Peter Senge “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead

13. Never let those ruby slippers off your feet. • Slippers are metaphors for 1. the motivation to continue to work toward change 2. to protect us from cynical teachers and other negative influences

14. Quotes “Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.” Dwight Eisenhower “In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” Albert Schweitzer

15. Follow the Yellow Brick Road • Make a plan to create change • Realize that it is subject to some bumps along the way but ultimately the plan allows us to reach our destination

16. On your journey: • You will meet some who encourage and support you in your efforts • You will meet some who are apathetic to your cause • You will meet some who are inspired by your journey • You will meet some who serve as obstacles to achieving your goals

17. Quotes A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must…..be undaunted when the going gets tough. Ronald Reagan A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop. Robert Hughes

18. Some people without brains do an awful lot of the talking • “Those who know, don’t talk. Those who talk don’t know.” • Tao Te Ching

19. Quote “To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the ‘music’, but to the essence of the person speaking. You listen not only for what someone knows, but for what he or she is. Ears operate at the speed of sound, which is far slower than the speed of light the eyes take in. Generative listening is the art of developing deeper silences in yourself, so you can slow our mind’s hearing to your ears’ natural speed, and hear beneath the words to their meaning.” Peter Senge

20. If I were King of the Forest….. • You don’t have to have an appointed title to create change • Fear is inevitable • Change can only be achieved through true courage

21. Quotes “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” Eleanor Roosevelt “Only be you strong, and very courageous, then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” Joshua 1:7-8 “Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.” Eddie Rickenbacker

22. Surrender Dorothy! • Sometimes it is necessary to sacrifice personal needs for the greater good • Encountering obstacles can make us stronger and more determined to create change

23. Quote “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.” Henry Ford

24. Bring me the broomstick of the Wicked Witch of the West • Negate the influences of the cynical teachers • Persuade those who follow to accompany you on your journey Nothing in the world Is as soft and yielding as water. Yet, for dissolving the hard and inflexible, Nothing can surpass it. Tao Te Ching

25. Quotes “Be not angry that you cannot make others what you want them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.” Thomas A. Kempis “When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.” Dale Carnegie

26. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. • “Uninspiring people abuse power. They pretend to help you when all they are really doing is manipulating you to help themselves.” • Joey Green, The Zen of Oz

27. There’s no place like home • “When you discover the true essence of your inner spark, when you embrace your spiritual nature, when you live in the here and now, when you are at home with yourself, the creative energy of the cosmic intelligence will flow abundantly and harmoniously, propelling you to fulfill your cosmic purpose easily and effortlessly. • Joey Green, The Zen of Oz

28. Quote “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him……But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, ‘We did it ourselves.’” Lao Tzu

44. “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” Helen Keller

45. Resources • Green, Joey. The Zen of Oz: Ten Spirtual Lessons from Over the Rainbow. • Kagan Publishing & Professional Development – http://www.kaganonline.com • Barth, Roland S. Learning By Heart. • Johnson, Spencer. Who Moved My Cheese. • Banyai, Istvan. Zoom and Re-Zoom.

46. Contact Information • Katie Osteen, Career & Technical Education Teacher • Brian A. Whitson, Science & Teacher Cadet Teacher • Salisbury High School, Rowan-Salisbury Schools