Assessment Of Team Basics Instructions: To Determine 146604

Assessment of Team Basics Instructions: To determine how effectively your group functions as a team, each team member should respond to the following questions individually. After all team members have completed the instrument, compare your responses. Your answers should help you diagnose your team’s strengths and problem areas. Based on your findings, you may want to make some modifications in the team’s characteristics (e.g., size, skills, purpose, goals, working approach, accountability). Refer back to Figure 2-2 in the chapter for more details.

Using the scale below, circle one response for each item. SD D N A SA

Strongly Disagree Disagree Neither Agree Strongly Agree

Part 1: Team Characteristics Assessment

Size

  • 1. We can convene easily and frequently SD D N A SA
  • 2. We can communicate easily and frequently SD D N A SA
  • 3. Our discussions are open and interactive SD D N A SA
  • 4. Everyone understands the others’ roles and skills SD D N A SA
  • 5. We need more people to achieve our goals SD D N A SA
  • 6. Subgroups are possible or necessary SD D N A SA

Levels of Complementary Skills

  • 7. All three categories of skills (technical/functional, problem solving, interpersonal) are either actually or potentially represented across team members SD D N A SA
  • 8. Each member has potential in all three categories to advance his/her skills to the level required SD D N A SA
  • 9. Some critical skill areas are missing on our team SD D N A SA
  • 10. Members are, individually and collectively, willing to spend the time to help themselves and others learn and develop skills SD D N A SA
  • 11. New skills can be introduced as needed SD D N A SA

Meaningful Purpose

  • 12. The team’s purpose constitutes a broader, deeper aspiration than just near-term goals SD D N A SA
  • 13. We have a “team” purpose, as opposed to just one individual’s purpose (e.g., the leader’s) SD D N A SA
  • 14. All members understand and articulate the purpose the same way SD D N A SA
  • 15. Members define the purpose vigorously in discussion with outsiders SD D N A SA
  • 16. Members frequently refer to the purpose and explore its implications SD D N A SA
  • 17. Our purpose contains themes that are meaningful SD D N A SA
  • 18. We feel our purpose is important SD D N A SA

Specific Goals

  • 19. We have “team,” rather than individuals’ goals SD D N A SA
  • 20. Our goals are clear, simple, and measurable SD D N A SA
  • 21. Our goals are realistic as well as ambitious SD D N A SA
  • 22. Our goals allow for small wins along the way SD D N A SA
  • 23. Our goals call for a concrete set of team products SD D N A SA
  • 24. The relative importance and priority of our goals are clear to all members SD D N A SA
  • 25. All members agree with the goals, their relative importance, and the way in which their achievement will be measured SD D N A SA
  • 26. All members articulate the goals in the same way SD D N A SA

Clear Working Approach

  • 27. Our approach is concrete, clear, and really understood and agreed to by everybody SD D N A SA
  • 28. Our approach will result in achievement of the objectives SD D N A SA
  • 29. Our approach will capitalize on and enhance the skills of all members SD D N A SA
  • 30. Our approach requires all members to contribute similar amounts of real work SD D N A SA
  • 31. Our approach provides for open interaction, fact-based problem solving, and results-based evaluation SD D N A SA
  • 32. Our approach allows modifications over time SD D N A SA
  • 33. Fresh input and perspectives are sought and added SD D N A SA

Sense of Mutual Accountability

  • 34. Members are individually and jointly accountable for the team’s goals, approach, and products SD D N A SA
  • 35. Progress can be measured against specific goals SD D N A SA
  • 36. Members feel responsible for all measures SD D N A SA
  • 37. Members are clear on what they are individually vs. jointly responsible for SD D N A SA

Part 2: Reflection and Analysis

Evaluate your original goal statement and Professional Growth Plan: Two months have passed since you wrote your goal statement and developed a Professional Growth Plan for the course. Looking back, was your plan realistic? Would you do anything differently if you were able to go back in time and rewrite it? What have you learned from the process of developing a Professional Growth Plan?

Analyze your progress: Discuss the progress you have made toward your goal. Are you closer to your goal today than you were at the time you wrote your Professional Growth Plan? On what evidence do you base your response? Have you grown or progressed in other ways not directly related to your stated goal? Explain. If you were to assess yourself today on the same Framework for Teaching components you assessed yourself on when you taught your lesson for the course project, how might your performance levels or level of expertise have changed? Include a 2+2 on your progress over the last eight weeks: two things that went well, and two things that could be improved.

Part 3: Reflection on the Course Project

Demonstrate that you have met the project objectives. Discuss what you have learned from:

  • Observing your colleagues.
  • Having your colleagues observe you.
  • Videotaping a classroom performance.
  • Using the Framework for Teaching.
  • Using the 2+2 Feedback.
  • Coaching and giving or receiving feedback.
  • Using evidence and artifacts to focus reflection and improve instruction.

Summarize the most valuable and the least valuable activity or strategy in terms of potential for improvement of instruction.

Part 4: Reflection on the Course

Discuss five concepts, ideas, or skills you have learned in the course readings and discussions that are significant for you. Why do you find them valuable? Which will you pursue further? Discuss two questions the course has raised for you. If new knowledge does not generate questions, the learning process has come to a halt!

Part 5: Growth Opportunities

Discuss new growth opportunities you have identified through work on your Professional Growth Plan and the knowledge and skills developed in the course. What new goals do you have? Will you continue your current Professional Growth Plan? Modify it? Develop a new one? On what evidence do you base your response? In what ways can you envision working more collaboratively with your peers? How would you sustain the initiatives you have made with your peers and school community in peer coaching and reflective conversations?

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