A 2-day leadership mini-workshop

Jane Jackson ( jane.jackson@asu.edu )
Tue, 26 Nov 1996 12:59:28 +0000

At our 5-week Leadership Modeling Workshop for high school physics teacher
- leaders nationwide 2 summers ago, we brought in a consultant for 2 days
to give leadership training. I just studied the evaluations. The teachers
got great value, they said, from learning about styles and skills of
leadership, types of power and bases of power, and influencing strategies,
and then PRACTICING these things in situations that they were likely to
face when they implemented the modeling method of physics in their schools.
The PRACTICE was what they overwhelmingly valued. The less lecturing by
the consultant, the better! The more they discussed and practiced among
themselves, the more they valued it.

Here's how they practiced.

First,elevator speeches: an individual was asked at random, at various
times during the two days, to stand up and give a speech of less than 3
minutes, pretending that he had met his principal, or a parent, or a school
board member, etc. in the elevator and had only a short time to interest
them in the modeling method of instruction. They enjoyed that practice and
spoke of it in their second workshop the following summer.

Second, the afternoon of the second day was spent in preparing 15-minute
presentations to the following audiences, to convince them of the benefits
of the modeling method: the school principal & technology coordinator, a
local business, a group of traditionally oriented physics teachers in the
school district, the local physics alliance, and the school board. Each
teacher chose one of these, and they prepared in groups for 90 minutes.
One person from each group then presented orally and the others critiqued
it. That activity was by far their most valued part.

Some thought that 1 1/2 days would be enough. Some wanted more time
allotted to sharing their own successes and failures.

Jane Jackson (Prof. of Physics, Scottsdale Comm. College--on leave)
Dept.of Physics, Box 871504, Arizona State Univ.,Tempe AZ 85287-1504.
jane.jackson@asu.edu (602)965-8438 FAX:965-7331
Modeling Workshop Project: http://modeling.la.asu.edu/modeling.html

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