INTEREDU™ - Developing Collaboration Skills for Highly Functional Teacher Teams

Curriculum

Developing Collaboration Skills for Highly Functional Teacher Teams

Program Details

Title	Developing Collaboration Skills for Highly Functional Teacher Teams
Duration:	10 hours
Prerequisites:	Having educational bachelor degree or completed fundamental education qualification programs, and Reflective Practitioner Teacher – training program.
Material:	Training Guide, Program Kit, and online resources on Marifah
Level - Track:	Advanced Educational Qualification
Target Audience :	Teachers (KG, Math, Science, English, and Computer Science) grade (1-3).

Short Description

Student learning in classroom is no longer the responsibility of teachers solely. It is a duty that requires determination from the whole school community. It also requires collective collaboration and awareness. In order for an employee to be successful at work, he/she must enjoy communication skills to deal with his/her work community, as indicated by most recent 21st century studies.

This program provides the teacher with the skills of collaboration, teamwork with peers, and student-centered learning professional society. It starts with defining the concept and elements of the learning professional society, as well as the concept and skills of collaboration. It provides conscious training on five aspects of high functional teams, confidence, appreciation of diversity, commitment, accountability and result orientation.

Big Ideas

•	Professional learning community empowers teachers in teaching and learning.
•	Professional learning community helps teachers gain new skills and knowledge.
•	Team collaboration empowers teachers.
•	Team collaboration encourages teachers to search for solutions to solve problems.
•	The five functions of a team are important to empower the team to be an effective one.
•	Collecting results needs trust, conflict, commitment and accountability.

Essential Questions

•	How does a professional learning community enhance teacher’s status?
•	How does the team collaboration empower teachers?
•	How do the five aspects of functions empower the team?

Outcomes

Unit	Outcomes
1	• Identify the characteristics of a professional learning community. • Understand the dilemmas of professional learning community. • Identify the institutionalization of professional learning community at schools • Explain how to build team collaboration. • Illustrate the power of collaboration. • Develop tips to apply norms of team collaboration. • Explain how collaboration empowers teachers. • Design an action plan for team collaboration. . • Predict solutions to solve expected problems that teachers may face in a team.
2	• Explain the effect of “trust each other” on the team group function. • Develop tips to build team members commitment. • Identify the five functions of effective team; trust each other, engage in conflict over ideas, build commitment, hold each other accountable, and collect a result. • Identify outcomes and priorities of teachers’ team. • Explain how to change learning path for teachers’ team. • Plan for collaboration meetings that include accountability. • Design procedures to strengthen accountability among teachers’ team. • Create a plan for the collective result of teachers’ team.

Unit

Outcomes

• Identify the characteristics of a professional learning community.
• Understand the dilemmas of professional learning community.
• Identify the institutionalization of professional learning community at schools
• Explain how to build team collaboration.
• Illustrate the power of collaboration.
• Develop tips to apply norms of team collaboration.
• Explain how collaboration empowers teachers.
• Design an action plan for team collaboration. .
• Predict solutions to solve expected problems that teachers may face in a team.

• Explain the effect of “trust each other” on the team group function.
• Develop tips to build team members commitment.
• Identify the five functions of effective team; trust each other, engage in conflict over ideas, build commitment, hold each other accountable, and collect a result.
• Identify outcomes and priorities of teachers’ team.
• Explain how to change learning path for teachers’ team.
• Plan for collaboration meetings that include accountability.
• Design procedures to strengthen accountability among teachers’ team.
• Create a plan for the collective result of teachers’ team.

Assessment

No	Assessment		Component	Weight
1	Attendance and Participation		Participation	5
			Attendance	5
2	Formative Assessment	Self-assessment	KWL-Q	5
			Vocabulary Tool	5
		Formative Assessment tasks	Task1: Design an action plan to build a professional learning community considering: Main Objectives, Procedures, Resources, Indicators of success, Duration.	10
			Task 2: Design an Action plan for team Collaboration that includes: one meeting to discuss issues in teaching and learning, peer observation and discussion, one workshop about collaborative action research to solve the problems they face in teaching.	20


3	Summative assessment		Task: Apply a meeting to evaluate the – five functions of team according to the evaluation checklist and self-reflection.	15


			Exit Task	5
			Portfolio	10

			Final exam	20
Program Total				100

Time Distribution

No	Item	Time (min)
1	KWL-Q	15
2	Vocabulary Tool	15
3	Terminology	10
4	Activity 1.1: Characteristics of a professional learning community	40
5	Activity 1.2: Promote professional learning community (PLC)	20
6	Activity 1.3: Team Collaboration definition	40
7	Activity 1.4: Team Collaboration checklist	20
8	Activity 1.5: Synergistic group The power of Collaboration	40
9	Activity 1.6: Norms of team synergetic and Collaboration	40
10	Activity 1.7: Team Collaboration for teacher’s empowerment	30
11	Activity 1.8: Team Collaboration solve problems	40
12	Assessment task	10
13	Activity 2.1: Trust Each Other	50
14	Activity 2.2:Engage in Conflict around ideas	45
15	Activity 2.3: Building commitment	45
16	Activity 2.4: Hold Each other Accountable	50
17	Activity 2.5:Collective result	50
20	Assessment task	10
21	Post -Vocabulary Tool	10
22	Exit Task	20
	Total	5 Hours