ED X378 - THE ADAPTIVE SCHOOL: DEVELOPING SELF-DIRECTED EDUCATORS AND TEAMS

Course Description

This course is being offered in partnership with Las Virgenes Unified School District. To be eligible for enrollment in this course you must be a teacher in this school district.

The Adaptive Schools Foundation Seminars take participants beyond the idea of professional learning communities to the actual implementation, describing specific ways to weave the collaborative fabric of a faculty, develop group member skills, and acquire the principles and understandings to engage in a continuous cycle of team and individual improvement. Adaptive Schools are the “how” of professional learning communities: how to behave in groups, how to lead them, and how to facilitate them for improved leading, teaching, and learning.

Course Outline

In the multi-day Adaptive Schools Foundation Seminar, participants will develop:

• An increased capacity to initiate, develop and sustain high functioning groups
• New lenses for diagnosing the stages and phases of group development
• An expanded repertoire of practical facilitation tools
• Understandings of when and how to engage groups in dialogue and discussion, the limitations, forms, and values of each
• Skills to move groups beyond consensus to the common focus
• Ways to value and use dissension, argument, and conflict
• Strategies for keeping group members on track, on topic, and energized.

Learner Outcomes

Notes

REQUIRED TEXT: Garmston, R., Wellman, B., Dolcemascolo, M., & McKanders, C. (2014). Adaptive schools foundation seminar learning guide (3rd ed.). Place of publication not identified: Hawker Brownlow Education.

HANDOUTS: Various FINAL: A final oral presentation and written reflection will be the summative assessments for the course.

This course is being offered in partnership with Las Virgenes Unified School District. To be eligible for enrollment in this course you must be a teacher in this school district.