Team Leader•Facilitates teaching team meetings•Handles or delegates administrative items•Makes sure that agenda items are discussed, resolved, and followed through•Acts as the liaison between administration & the team•Maintains open communication strategies, good listening, giving and receiving feedback•Participates in problem solving and decision making as a team member•Adheres to team ground rules

Team Members•Maintain open communication strategies•Participates fully in discussions, problem solving and decision making•Complete assignments in between meetings•Adhere to team ground rules•Keeping minutes for team meetings•Writing and organizing agendas•Handling various grade-level/building issues•Planning for field trips•Giving updates on extracurricular activities•Gathering materials for integrative unitsSetting Ground Rules

*Attendance*Promptness*Meeting place & time*Participation*Basic conversational courtesies*Assignments

Assessing Your Team* Individually, how are you communicating with your team members?* How are we doing at building consensus and decision making?* What are our strengths and areas where improvement is needed?

Defining Team Roles and Responsibilities

What do teams of teachers do together?•Share the same group of students• Discuss and solve discipline problems• Identify students’ needs and address them• Reward students together• Support each other in the classroom.•Work together with parents to help students• Plan together

Team Meetings - Advice and Guidelines1. Meetings should be scheduled regularly(at

least twice a week)2. Always establish and follow your agenda3. At each meeting you should have

conversations about students, attendance, instruction and

climate4. Each meeting should end with:• assignments established with dates for

completion• time and date of next meeting• agenda topics for next meeting5. Create and submit minutes from your

meetings

Sample Team Meeting AgendaAgenda – Team # 3 October 4, 2012 2:05 – 2:35 pm *Minutes from last meeting 10/1*Data from class slips*Incentive - Movie Day to reward progress *Students with concerns or problem (Team

problem solving) *October 11, 2012 Team #3 Presentations Choose one student from 913,914,915 Presentation: Problem or concern, plan to

help, results*Intramural Basketball -Begins Thursday 10-4-12 -Keene, Kerr or Casey has list of students who

want to play and their correct(?) phone numbers.

Sample agenda topics: •Each teacher can briefly preview what they will be teaching that week•Share best practices!•Discuss concerns about students who are having academic or behavior problems•Discuss assessment tools•Brainstorm ideas for interdisciplinary unit•Conflict within the team to be resolved•Upcoming Events – open house, field trips, student rewards, assemblies, fund raisers, staff development workshops, parent conferences