Teachers as Facilitators Workshop Options
Our Goal is to increase teacher collaboration and productivity serving both student growth and teacher effectiveness.
These workshops and webinars go beyond refining teacher-facilitator competencies, to internalizing the use of five Mindsets for collaborative effectiveness within teacher groups from which general professional effectiveness is an important byproduct. Workshop and webinar participants will experience and test the efficacy of these Mindsets to support internalization and use.
While the workshops and webinars do increase teacher skills, knowledge and facilitating prowess, the larger aim is of greater consequence: developing an internal landscape -- mental dispositions, perspectives, and mindsets -- believing these to be the true foundation for effective facilitation.
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In person Teachers as facilitators Workshop
All workshops follow a framework tailored to fit your contextual needs. You can register for existing workshops, or you can schedule a workshop within your organization. This is a two day, highly interactive learning experience.
Virtual teachers as facilitators workshop
All virtual webinars follow a framework tailored to fit your contextual needs. You can register for existing workshops, or you can schedule a webinar within your organization. This virtual workshop occurs over the course of four days with 2.5 hours of highly interactive learning experiences each day.
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(1) Teacher leaders are challenged in ways administrators are not. These challenges and tensions have been reported to us through over 400 interviews and surveys internationally. The Teachers as Facilitators design addresses these.
(2) Through this work, teacher leaders gain facilitation skills, approaches to commonly anticipated issues and the ability to serve peer communities while contributing to increasingly effective collaborative practices in schools.
(3) A third design assumption is that living these mindsets is necessary to achieve individualized, judicious employment of these Mindsets. -
• Enhanced appreciation of the necessity and importance of meeting facilitation
• Increased confidence and effectiveness as facilitators working with colleagues
• Awareness and integration of Five Facilitator Mindsets that increase teacher facilitator resourcefulness
• Enhanced consciousness and competence when generating the benefits of diversity and conflict
• Enhance personal and collective consciousness, flexibility and productivity as reflective team members and leaders
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Managing polarities workshop
Managing Polarities is an additional workshop offering. This workshop offers a framework and principles along with a a practical set of resources for dealing with all polarities in life. Polarities are interdependent, ongoing chronic issues which are both unavoidable and unsolvable. For example, collaboration and autonomy are both necessary for group success. Attempting to address them through customary problem-solving only makes things worse. These situations are not problems to solve; they are polarities which require effective management. Leaders, teams, and organizations become more effective as they learn to distinguish between the two and deal productively with both. Through this work, they can consciously use diversity and divergent thinking as resources for developing high performing cultures that promote community and productivity.