MELS 605 Week 4 Lesson Plan
Purpose:
To prepare executives to lead schools as they face the challenge of the 21st century.
Desired Outcomes: By the end of this session, students will have an understanding of:
 Collaborative behaviors within supervision
 Building community among various stakeholders
 Leading effective teams
Texts: Custom text, Chapter 15 and 28; Balls, et. al Section II; Hersey et. al, Ch. 13
Video: PD360 videos on Classic: What’s worth fighting for Episodes 1-7 out of 15
Article: Team building without time wasting - http://www.marshallgoldsmithlibrary.com/docs/articles/Team_Bldg_wo_Time_Wa.pdf
Activity
1. Gather
2. Artifact work: Small
group cohort work on
Artifact 3, SIP
Time
Description/Rationale
Person
Materials
5 – 5:30 PM Instructor reviews goals from previous meeting.
Instructor
(30 min)
Individual and small group meetings with instructor
to complete assignments and artifacts.
Blackboard
5:30-6:30
PM
(60 min)
MELS Handbook
Cohort collaboration. Each student is responsible for Instructor
all students having a finished draft of the SIP
Whole group
submitted to Task Stream to request comments by
this date. “One for all, all for one…” to get it done.
1
3. Collaborative behaviors 6:30- 7 PM On a scrap piece of paper, students take 5 minutes to Instructor
(30 min)
write down a problem they are having as a teacher or Small groups
a problem you know a teacher in your school is
having. Instructor collect papers. Review Ch. 15 in
Custom text. Examine behaviors on collaborative
continuum – Figure 10.1. Instructor pass out student
situations. In groups of 3, have students select one of
the situations from among the papers their group has,
assign one student to be the teacher, one to be the
supervisor, and one to be an observer. “Teacher” and
“Supervisor” role play a conference practicing a
collaborative approach to solving the problem while
“Observer” takes notes. At end of role play,
“observer” share notes and all students reflect on
discussion.
Text: Custom text, Ch. 15
7:00 – 7:20 BREAK
4. Building community
7:20-8 PM
(40 min)
Instructor leads group on skim and scan of Ch. 28 in Instructor
the custom text focusing on various aspects of
Whole group
community. View PD360 videos on principals
Small groups
building collaborative culture within the school.
Referring to the 6 characteristics of PLCs on pp.
471-472 of custom text ask students to reflect on the
PLCs they led during their work in the MELS
program. Based on information in the text and the
videos, how could they have improved the
functioning of these PLCs?
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Text: Custom Text, Ch. 28
Videos: pd360.com
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Video program entitled Classic:
What’s worth fighting for
Episodes 1-7 out of 15
5. Leading effective teams 8-8:40 PM
(40 min)
Instructor leads whole group through skim and scan Instructor
of Hersey, Ch. 13. In particular, note figure 13-4 and Whole group
discussion on pp. 245-250. Where would students
place themselves on the continuum of team role
behaviors?
Text: Hersey, Ch. 13
Team building without time wasting http://www.marshallgoldsmithlibrary.c
om/docs/articles/Team_Bldg_wo_Time
_Wa.pdf
Share the article, Team building without time wasting
and complete steps 1-6 in class considering the class
as a whole as a team.
6. Reflection:
Journal
8:40-8:50
PM
(10 min)
Reflect on the team building exercise described in
Team building without time wasting. How might
teams at your site benefit from this process?
3
Students
Paper, pencil