Generating buyin and ownership by a new community

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Generating buy-in and ownership by a new community

• Or
• Achieving Faculty
• Buy-in to a
• Paradigm shift

Facilitators Marvin Pitts - WSU Dan Cordon
U of I
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Content

• First meeting of a multi-session project
• Identifying sources of Resistance
• Identifying roadblocks
• Removing roadblocks
• Obtaining a positive outcome for each participant

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Identifying Sources of Resistance

• Outcomes
• Ability to identify sources of resistance within
  a group
• Ability to design a scheme for ranking the
  severity of various Sources of Resistance to a
  Paradigm Shift

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Generating Ideas via Fishbowl

• Center Table The Fish
• Will get to roll play as characters in a changing
  paradigm (no-doubt youve been frustrated by them
  in your own meetings)
• Ignore others outside the table for allotted time
• Other Tables The Observers
• Collecting/Recording root issues hindering change
  displayed by the Fish
• Free to move, but do not interact/disrupt whats
  happening in the Fishbowl

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Scenario

• A large lower division course is taught in six
  sessions by a range of instructors. Many of the
  instructors have taught the course before, some
  are teaching it for the first time. For many the
  years the course has been taught using a common
  set of course objectives, but each instructor
  determined how their section was taught.
• Last semester the Associate Dean attended a
  PCrest workshop on self assessment, and decided
  that the instructors for this course will self
  assess their performance, and share these
  assessments weekly with the other instructors as
  a means of improving performance.
• Developing before us is the meeting where the
  instructors learn they will be self assessing
  this semester.

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Characters

• Course Coordinator
• Graduate Student
• Untenured Faculty member
• Tenured Faculty Member
• Emeritus Professor
• Adjunct Professor

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Sources

• Fear (4)
• Lack of training (3)
• Ultimate use (2)
• Time constraints (6)
• No perceived value (4)

• Alignment of expectations (6)
• Incomplete guidance (2)
• Lack of strong vision (3)
• Egos
• Networks of relationships rather than team(1)

• No team work (1)
• No common goals
• Power issues

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Second Activity

• 15 minutes to discuss and create a 1.5 minute
  oral report
• Form small groups of 6 to 8
• As a group, develop a scheme for ranking the
  severity of the identified sources for use in
  future sessions

• Top-Ranking Sources
• Time constraints
• Alignment of expectations
• Fear
• Perceived value
• Lack of training
• Lack of vision

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Schemes

• Poll (3x5 cards)
• Numerical model percentage, etc
• Stakeholders
• Resources
• Reading literature for other schemes
• Gap analysis