This document discusses strategies for promoting a team approach to academic achievement and high-performance teaching. It recommends that teachers model behaviors for students and maintain consistent routines and procedures. Specifically, it suggests that teachers assume a coaching role by socializing with other staff and facilitating community-building activities. Maintaining consistent expectations about how students interact will help establish the classroom as a team.
This document discusses strategies for promoting a team approach to academic achievement and high-performance teaching. It recommends that teachers model behaviors for students and maintain consistent routines and procedures. Specifically, it suggests that teachers assume a coaching role by socializing with other staff and facilitating community-building activities. Maintaining consistent expectations about how students interact will help establish the classroom as a team.
This document discusses strategies for promoting a team approach to academic achievement and high-performance teaching. It recommends that teachers model behaviors for students and maintain consistent routines and procedures. Specifically, it suggests that teachers assume a coaching role by socializing with other staff and facilitating community-building activities. Maintaining consistent expectations about how students interact will help establish the classroom as a team.
This document discusses strategies for promoting a team approach to academic achievement and high-performance teaching. It recommends that teachers model behaviors for students and maintain consistent routines and procedures. Specifically, it suggests that teachers assume a coaching role by socializing with other staff and facilitating community-building activities. Maintaining consistent expectations about how students interact will help establish the classroom as a team.
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An Analogy: Every Classroom Is A Team
And Every Teacher Is A Coach
contributed by Molly Bruzewski, Ed.S.
(Summary) This is a 2-part series on strategies for promoting a team approach to academic achievement and high-performance teaching. Strategy 1 for running your classroom like a team: Modeling
Strategy 1: Model everything.
Assume the Head Coach role and model what you would like to see your staff do in their classrooms. As the coach, provide opportunities inside and outside of school time for staff to socialize and become a community. Get teachers on their feet while Team 1 facilitates the icebreaker and community-building activities. Community-building strategies need to be coupled with conversations around quality routines and procedures. Developing positive relationships plays a critical role in the socialization of the whole child. We have a unique opportunity to model what good relationships look like, and appropriate ways to treat one another as friends and colleagues.
Strategy 2: Be consistent
Routines and procedures, on the other hand, are essential for a smooth workflow. They provide expectations and guidelines for students to follow in order to do tasks on their own. Keep these techniques in mind as you begin to establish your team at the start of the school year.
Because every classroom is a team and every teacher is a coach, be consistent and set the expectation that students should get to know one another in a comparable way.
To be successful, teams must collaborate. Everything we do is founded on the first thing we
do, which is to model.
We'll look at how clarifying expectations affects the "team" approach to student accomplishment in the second section.
Reference: Modeling – Playbook Practice 1; Speaking in Complete Sentences – Playbook
Practice 2; Obama’s Use of Complete Sentences Stirs Controversy, November, 21, 2008, The BLOG, Huffington Post; The B.E.S.T. Literacy Connection, The Power of Speaking in Complete Sentences, Sarah Whitt, Feb. 13, 2012; Whole Group Instruction – Playbook Practice 3; Education Week BLOG, Finding Common Ground, 5 Reasons You Should Flip Your Leadership, Peter DeWitt, July 6, 2014; image attribution flickr user flickeringbrad; Student Achievement: Every Classroom Is A Team And Every Teacher Is A Coach
Our mentors or teachers are the ones who help us learn more by sharing their expertise and experiences with us, and the vast majority of them have been successful in educating students. We respect and admire our instructors, thus as a future teacher, it is my responsibility to be a role model for my students and guide them in the proper direction. It is difficult to be a teacher because you must understand everything about your students, including their names, ages, birthdays, interests, and dislikes. Because in order to develop a teaching and learning plan for your students, you must first understand their differences and who needs to be taught by peers. It's also difficult to be a teacher because your students idolize you and think you're their second parent, so you must be respectful and kind every time. You must also be constant and love and encourage them.
This article gives me the impression that being a good role model for your students can have a positive impact on how they learn.
Insights Teaching your students is a challenging task, and this article has given me some ideas for what I should keep in mind when modeling and coaching my students.
As a future teacher and a future coach of my students, I will be able to better assess my students and give them the proper treatment or teaching that is appropriate for their abilities by paying more attention to the small details about them, such as their first names (last names), appearance, age, birthday, weaknesses, and strengths.
