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Here is a look at the book and its
contents.
Chapter 1 The
Team Assessment
Before any training begins, the team needs to assess its strengths and
areas that need improvement. This comprehensive self-assessment will
help teams assess their performance in all areas of teaming.
Chapter 2
Interdisciplinary Team Management
Great athletes get the very most out of every minute of their workouts.
Like great athletes, high performing teams get the most out of each team
meeting. This chapter will help teams develop the management skills to
make every minute of team meeting time count!
Chapter 3
Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development
Developing interdisciplinary curriculums is like writing and performing
a symphony. Like the various instruments in a symphony, the various
content areas in the school need to know when to work independently and
when to work together. This chapter will demonstrate an easy method to
develop an integrated approach to developing and delivering symphonic
curriculums and without the arbitrary “themes” teachers used to be
forced to participate in.
Chapter 4 COMPASS (COMmunity Partnerships
Assuring Student Success)
Developing Meaningful Community-Team Partnerships
All
sports teams depend on their community for support. The focus of this
chapter is to demonstrate how to develop, maintain, and expand the
community involvement with interdisciplinary teams and the school.
Teams will learn how to develop meaningful community-team partnerships
that are curriculum-based and developed around specific content topics.
Chapter 5 Team
Identity
Colleges spend a great deal of effort and resources to develop their
identity and school spirit. The more students and members of the
community identify with the school, the more support the school receives
and the more successful the school will be. The same is true for
interdisciplinary teams. This chapter will show teams how to develop a
strong team identity that will develop the ownership and support of the
students and community.
Chapter 6
Positive Reinforcements
Teams have long understood the importance of motivation. Unfortunately,
teams spend a large amount of their meeting time focused on dealing with
students with academic and behavior challenges, deciding on the
consequences, and doing all of the necessary follow-up. Teams need to
find ways to spend as much time on positive reinforcement systems as
they do on dealing with negative behavior. This chapter will help teams
with specific strategies for motivating students.
Chapter 7 Positive Reinforcements and Pro-Active Student
Management
Most
discipline systems for teachers and teams are set up to be reactive to
student behaviors. Personal trainers help athletes avoid injuries
before they happen. This chapter of the personal trainer will help
teachers and teams work with their administrators and counselors to
become pro-active with student management. When teams, administrators
and counselors have systems to identify and intervene with discipline
issues very early, they can dramatically reduce the referral rates.
Chapter 8
Student Management
Casey Stengel said “Getting good players is easy. Getting them to play
good together is the hard part.” This chapter demonstrates how teams,
administrators and counselors can best work together to deal with the
discipline issues that actually result in referrals.
Chapter 9
Great Parent-Team Conferences
Parent-Team conferences can potentially have tremendous impact on
student performance, if the group can put together a game plan for the
student. This chapter demonstrates how teams can quickly plan for, and
implement, congenial and productive parent conferences.
Chapter 10 Flexing the Team Schedule for Instructional and
Assessment Options
Differentiated instruction and/or authentic assessment are greatly
dependent on the time-frame the teacher has to work with. This chapter
will make the teachers on the team instructional and assessment
contortionists.
Chapter 11 Inclusion on the Team
Great sports teams are constantly making adaptations and modifications
to enhance their performance. Most teams have students on the team that
require adaptations and modifications. I would argue that all students
fall into this category.
The good news is that there are teachers to help the teams with the
adaptations and modifications. Since all students benefit from this
planning, teams get much stronger when Special Needs teachers are
working with them. This is especially true when inclusion with
co-teaching is included.
Chapter 12 The Four Stages of Team Development
All
teams go through four developmental stages, and their training regiment
changes depending on their stage of development. This chapter will help
teams recognize the levels of team development and assess where they are
on the continuum.
Chapter 13 Advisory Programs
The
heart is the hardest working muscle in the body. The heart determines how the
muscles will develop and will greatly determine how much endurance the
body will have. A team-based and skill-focused Advisory Program can be
the heart of the school that helps every area of the school develop to
the fullest potential.
Chapter 14 Team Goals
Getting in shape requires setting goals along the way. This chapter
will help teams determine what they want to achieve and then write the
corresponding affective and cognitive goals that will get them there.
Once goals have been established, benchmarks can be determined and teams
can monitor their progress.
Chapter 15 Using Teams to Increase Student
Test Scores
This chapter will help
teams outscore the opponents every time. By the way, the opponents
would be the state tests.
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