WORKSHOPS - TEACHER DEVELOPMENT

Teacher Development Series

5 workshops for educators and academic staff

Our entire Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®-based (MBTI®-based) teacher development portfolio is available as the Teacher Development Series. This five-workshop series consists of 20 hours of fun and interactive learning for educators and academic staff. Although workshops can be conducted independent of one another, the series is designed to:

• Develop self-awareness of today’s educators
• Provide a team building opportunity and team building skill development for educators and academic staff
• Increase the individual leadership effectiveness of educators and academic staff members

The Self-Aware Educator

For educators and academic staff

This workshop is designed to challenge you as an educator to reflect and gain greater awareness of your current teaching capability. Self-aware educators recognize their strengths and weaknesses and understand their tendencies toward stress and conflict. When educators better understand themselves, they have a greater ability to change their teaching attributes to adapt to their learning audiences. Self-awareness is a critical prerequisite to effective teaching and individual leadership within any learning institution.

• Explain differences between each dichotomy of MBTI®
• Determine one’s own temperament based on the MBTI® self-assessment
• Connect their MBTI temperament to their teaching behaviors and practices

Managing Conflict within a Team

For educators and academic staff

This workshop addresses one of the most frustrating and complicated aspects of working with other educators and academic staff team mates - managing conflict. Despite the fact that conflict is a natural disagreement resulting from individuals or groups that differ in attitudes, beliefs, values or needs, it is often the foundation for many of today’s learning community woes.

• Identify the common ingredients of conflict

• Connect their MBTI® temperaments to how they handle conflict and confrontation
• Describe five conflict resolution modes
• Demonstrate the four-step assertion process
• Deal more effectively with difficult or challenging people

Trustful Leadership for Educators

For educators and academic staff

This workshop is designed to address the essence of being a trustful educator. It is estimated that over half of all workers today believe that a lack of trust in leadership is a real and pressing problem in their organizations. All educators and academic staff members need to assess their own behavioral leadership integrity in order to ensure they are building and exemplifying trust.

• Explore the value and importance of trust in an educational environment

• Connect their MBTI® temperament to developing trust as a educator 
• Implement trust building actions into their teaching and leadership practices
• Understand the differences between "gossip vs. grapevine”

Building EffectiveTeams (for Effective PLCs)

For educators and academic staff

A shared sense of purpose and commitment to that purpose are necessary cornerstones for learning community teams. This workshop provides educators and academic staff with insight into the stages of team development and tools to generate genuine commitment and accountability within their learning communities.

• Recognize the stages of team development

• Evaluate their team’s current stage of team development
• Connect their MBTI® temperament to their approach to building relationships within the team
• Utilize tools to generate robust dialogue and constructive conflict to achieve commitment
• Understand the importance of accountability within a professional learning community

Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

For educators and academic staff

Educators and academic staff members must be able to effectively recognize and assess complex situations. They must be able to make the optimal decisions based on their own capability to assess situations. Critical thinking is a necessary competency for all individual teacher-leaders and for all successful learning institutions.

• Connect their MBTI® temperaments to their own decision making process

• Explain the stages of the critical thinking model
• Apply the "zig zag” problem solving model
• Demonstrate how to use the models in making sound teaching and leadership decisions