November 14, 2024 Registration

November 14, 2024 Focus: Shifting Teacher Mindset & Building Teacher Efficacy

Agenda

Zoom link for today's meeting: https://aiu3.zoom.us/my/heather.moschetta or go to https://zoom.us and join with Meeting ID 412 394 4919. The Zoom will open at approximately 8:45 AM.

9:00-9:15 Welcome, Updates, Events, Directory

9:15-9:30 Review October's content: Has anything changed in your ability to manage your workload as a result of the October tips?

9:30-10:15 Overcoming Teacher Deficit Thinking - Slides
Why do some teachers have a deficit mindset?
Scenario - free write and gain a thought partner
Macro-Level and Micro-Level Coaching to Change Deficit Thinking
Macro: Coaching  Models - facilitative, directive, dialogical, challenge-based, inquiry based/cognitive, student-centered
Micro: Coaching Strategies - collaborative inquiry, PD session, coaching cycle, data conversation, lesson model, learning walk, others?
Apply one model of coaching and one or more strategies that might help the teacher overcome the deficit thinking and build efficacy.
This article served as the source of much of the information in this section.

10:15-10:30 Break

10:30-11:30 Quotation Mingle: 5 Excerpts from Drive (Daniel Pink)

   Step 1 = Read and individually annotate your excerpt. What stands out? What might be useful?
Step 2 = Join with others with the same color quote and discuss
Step 3 = Mingle. Meet with every other color of quote. Read yours and discuss what stands out/what is useful. Listen and discuss when your partner shares their quote.
Rules: 1) Pairs only! 2) Your paper must stay in your hands!

After Quotation Mingle, return to your scenario. What from the quotations can you apply to your scenario?

Lunch 11:30-12:50

Ed Camp 1:00-1:30 

• Ed Camp Topics

  • Summary of Switch, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

• Norms: "other" category, "rule of two feet," vulnerability, constructive time with peers

• Optional Talking Points: 

  • What have you tried?  Has anything worked yet, even in small ways?

  • What, ideally, might this look like if successful?  Why is it important to you and your coaching?

  • What are the barriers?  Do you have any allies who you might be able to rely on in some way to assist you with this effort?

Additional EdCamp Topics (Optional Form)

1:30-2:15 4 Corners (4 coaching moves to employ as you embark on the journey to shift teacher mindset) 

• Choose the corner (or breakout room) that calls to you first

• Discuss with others how you might employ that coaching move

• When the conversation has run its course, move to the next corner

• Repeat until you have visited all four corners

2:15-2:30 Summary, Wrap up, Next Steps

Coaching Content Addressed Today:

• Deficit mindset - what it is and why some teachers have it

• Coaching  Models - facilitative, directive, dialogical, challenge-based, inquiry-based/cognitive, student-centered

• Coaching Strategies - collaborative inquiry, PD session, coaching cycle, data conversation, lesson model, learning walk

• Ed Camp topics

• Coaching moves 

Coaching Strategies Employed Today:

• Freewriting

• Thought partners

• Quotation mingle

• Ed Camp

• 4 Corners

What are your takeaways? What can you use in your coaching?

Next meeting: December 11, 2024