Defining Team Roles and Responsibilities Team Leader Facilitates

Defining Team Roles and Responsibilities Team Leader • Facilitates teaching team meetings • Handles or delegates administrative items • Makes sure that agenda items are discussed, resolved, and followed through • Acts as the liaison between administration & the team • Maintains open communication strategies, good listening, giving and receiving feedback • Participates in problem solving and decision making as a team member • Adheres to team ground rules Setting Ground Rules *Attendance *Promptness *Meeting place & time *Participation *Basic conversational courtesies *Assignments Team Members • Maintain open communication strategies • Participates fully in discussions, problem solving and decision making • Complete assignments in between meetings • Adhere to team ground rules • Keeping minutes for team meetings • Writing and organizing agendas • Handling various grade-level/building issues • Planning for field trips • Giving updates on extracurricular activities • Gathering materials for integrative units Assessing Your Team * Individually, how are you communicating with your team members? * How are we doing at building consensus and decision making? * What are our strengths and areas where improvement is needed?

What do teams of teachers do together? • Share the same group of students • Discuss and solve discipline problems • Identify students’ needs and address them • Reward students together • Support each other in the classroom. • Work together with parents to help students • Plan together Sample agenda topics: • Each teacher can briefly preview what they will be teaching that week • Share best practices! • Discuss concerns about students who are having academic or behavior problems • Discuss assessment tools • Brainstorm ideas for interdisciplinary unit • Conflict within the team to be resolved • Upcoming Events – open house, field trips, student rewards, assemblies, fund raisers, staff development workshops, parent conferences Team Meetings - Advice and Guidelines 1. Meetings should be scheduled regularly(at least twice a week) 2. Always establish and follow your agenda 3. At each meeting you should have conversations about students, attendance, instruction and climate 4. Each meeting should end with: • assignments established with dates for completion • time and date of next meeting • agenda topics for next meeting 5. Create and submit minutes from your meetings Sample Team Meeting Agenda – Team # 3 October 4, 2012 2: 05 – 2: 35 pm *Minutes from last meeting 10/1 *Data from class slips *Incentive - Movie Day to reward progress *Students with concerns or problem (Team problem solving) *October 11, 2012 Team #3 Presentations Choose one student from 913, 914, 915 Presentation: Problem or concern, plan to help, results *Intramural Basketball -Begins Thursday 10 -4 -12 -Keene, Kerr or Casey has list of students who want to play and their correct(? ) phone numbers.