Laser Lessons - Lesson

Seek to develop co-operative ways of working and check progress towards agreed objectives.

View the video to the right, which was produced by Teachers TV. This 15-minute video offers good practice examples of how TAs can work together to implement a range of learning support schemes. Watch the video and make notes. Is there anything that you can relate to your setting? What can you learn from watching the video?

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Tutorial Video
Reading Materials

'Responding to the challenges of in-school staff collaboration' from SSAT, the schools, students and teachers network
‘First Time Leadership’, published by Fenman

Presentation
Good Practice Example
Interactive Quiz
Evidence Opportunities
Extended Learning

Visit the '14 Best ice breakers for meetings [staff, parent, team], where you will find some icebreaker activities that teams can do together to enable them to move quickly from the forming/storming stage to the norming/performing stage
Watch a YouTube video on teambuilding through a drumming workshopWhat are the benefits of such non work-related activities to the way a team may perform in the workplace? What skills are the delegates learning that can be transferred to the workplace?
Obtain and read a copy of ‘Seven Habits of Highly Effective People’ By Stephen Covey, published by Simon And Schuster. Think about how the principles outlined in this book may help you to work more effectively as part of a team.

Think And Challenge