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Building Effective Teacher Teams

Link: http://www.teacherleaders.org/Resources/bkreviews4.html#02

Middle grades teacher Bill Ferriter loves the group of teachers he's worked with to develop a high-functioning professional learning team. "Over the past year, we have worked hard together in a school founded on the principles of a learning community...(b)ut we've stumbled over the past month. We've had disagreements over how our team should operate and what direction we should be heading." Bill began to "openly wonder" if effective teaming was even possible--or worth the effort. Then he discovered Daniel Kain's "Camel-Makers: Building Effective Teacher Teams Together," a fable about teacher teaming published by the National Middle School Association. "I walk away from it with a sense of assurance about my learning team and with a set of steps that we can take to strengthen ourselves. Kain and his fictional characters have given me the confidence that we will feel success again."

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• Educational Type: Best practice
• Educational Type: Community
• Educational Type: Literature
• Educational Type: Model Program
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