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Listening for clues to build Win-Win Supportive Relationships. As you think about your work as a leaders of change and supporting teachers, what are your greatest challenges? How do you feel about your working relationships with the teachers you support?
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Listening for clues to build Win-Win Supportive Relationships
As you think about your work as a leaders of change and supporting teachers, what are your greatest challenges? • How do you feel about your working relationships with the teachers you support? • What are your concerns about your role as a teacher leader?
Listen First… • Listening actively and attentively to feelings, concerns and problems shared by our colleagues is the most effective way to promote positive change. • When I think about these experiences, I feel______________because _________... • Describe specific situations.
Real scenarios: your examples • Teacher A: is frustrated with a colleague who is not following through with team time and not preparing for PLC work. He is worried that interventions for students will not be effective and student learning will be affected. • Teacher B: frustrated that the ELA standards have changed because he has many great lessons he has developed over the years. He also does not think he should have to upload them for vetting for use at his district level. These are his lessons. • Teacher C: excited that there is now a venue in Home Base for sharing and finding resources with other NC Science teachers. Has ideas for building another format for science lessons.
Levels of Listening • Paraphrase Feelings • Paraphrase Content • Door Openers • Acknowledgement • Non-Verbals • Road Blocks • Happy Hooker • Ships passing in the Night • Non-Verbal Turn-offs
Practice Listening • Work in pairs. • One listens, one speaks • Speaker will report out: • How you felt while being heard • What did the listener do in the way of listening? • Listener Reports: • How you felt as a listener…
Conceptual Level Stages of Concern The Person Equilibration Elementsthat influence our behaviors Listening Listening Listening Listening
Phases of Concern Dr. Frances Fuller • University of Texas' Research and Development Center for Teacher Education. • Concerns Based Adoption Model, CBAM predicts that individuals in any organization which is adopting any new innovation or change go through predictable stages of concern. • Stages of Concern defined in CBAM: • Concern for Self • Concern for Task • Concern for Impact.
Where are your concerns? • 0. Awareness • 1. Informational • 2. Personal • 3. Management • 4. Consequence • 5. Collaboration • 6. Refocusing
Next … • Review Listening Skills and practice • Reflective Judgment Stages • Helping ourselves and others grow and accommodate change