You Are Not Alone…
We sit gathered around
the table waiting to begin our journey of learning together. My thoughts are
that of eagerness to get started as we continue to move forward towards our
next steps. Wait I tell myself, let's do this right, after all we have been
moving slowly with our progression of our PLC's for a reason. So what's next?
How do we begin our journey of learning together? We go back and together as a
team we work through the foundation protocol.
There we sat, taking
some time to write down what was important to us regarding the Norms of
Collaboration. The process was valuable and very informative. One by one we
shared what we felt we needed in order to work collaboratively. As each person
shared, responded to questions and listened to others responses it became very
clear that we were not alone as every member in our group had the same response
to what Norm of Collaboration they felt was important to them. As each of us
spoke we repetitively heard Pausing and Paying Attention to Self & Others.
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Pausing - Pausing
before responding or asking a question allows time for thinking and enhances
dialogue, discussion, and decision-making.
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Paying Attention to Self and Others - Meaningful dialogue
and discussion are facilitated when each group member is conscious of self and
of others, and is aware of what (s)he is saying and how it is said as well as
how others are responding. This includes paying attention to learning styles
when planning, facilitating, and participating in group meetings and
conversations.
As time came to an end
for our meeting today we were working together to form our needs into a
foundational protocol that we will hold one another to as we collaboratively
work towards providing successful learning opportunities for all of our
students. In our next meeting we will finalize our foundational protocol and
move on to our next step of establishing our team focus.
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