Maximizing Effectiveness Using Positive Behavior Support Methods in the Classroom: Collaborative Teaming

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Maximizing Effectiveness Using Positive Behavior
Support Methods in the ClassroomCollaborative
Teaming
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Objective

• Understand the importance of collaborative
  teaming
• Understand the characteristics and benefits to
  effective teaming
• Identify critical team roles and responsibilities

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Have you ever been part of this team?

• No agenda is prepared
• Meeting starts late
• No time schedule has been set for the meeting
• No one is prepared
• No facilitator is identified
• No one agrees on anything
• No action plan is developed
• Everyone is off task
• Negative tone throughout the meeting

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Ingredients for Successful Teams

• Supportive environments
• Encouraging team members
• Adequate time for meetings
• Clarification of expected roles
• Common goal to achieve
• Mutual respect for others and all ideas
• Process for conflict resolution

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Anything I can do, WE can do better

• Individual contributions
• Team contributions
• Different perspectives
• Looking at things objectively
• Productivity
• Accuracy
• Consensus

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Possible Kinds of Teams

• Individual classrooms
• Grade level
• Academic / subject level
• Team rotation
• ESE

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Benefits to Teaming

• Share experiences
• Share expertise
• Share materials/lesson plans
• Assistance with difficult situations
• Observe classroom and individual students
• Different perspectives
• Consistency for students across teachers

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Possible Meeting Roles

• Team leader - facilitates, reviews the purpose,
  and keeps the team focused on the meeting
• Recorder - responsible for transcribing the
  teams responses on a master record
• Timekeeper- responsible for monitoring the amount
  of time available, and keeps the team aware of
  time limits

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How can we stretch our minds?

• Continuously seeking to improve what you do and
  make it BETTER
• Problem-solve
• Bring in new and additional people
• Identify those individuals that can provide you
  with additional resources
• Collaborate with other agencies
• Try new interventions and strategies
• 10 Stretch

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Activity A Clear Image

• How well do you really know your team members?
• Independently list 3 things about yourself that
  are true and one thing about yourself that is
  false
• Do not indicate which items are fact or faction
  that is up to your team to decide
• Share information with your team
• Example I just hit four numbers in the lotto, I
  use to have red hair, I practiced ballet for 13
  years, I use to work in a high school

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Activity Teaming/Collaboration

• What kind of team are you on?
• i.e., grade level team
• What is your team purpose?
• What is the role of your team?
• Does your team deal with behavior issues?
• Identify additional strategies that might enhance
  team collaboration and allow your team to address
  behavior issues at the classroom level.