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*Hello everyone, my name is Jennifer Schutt and today we are going to talk about Shared Vision and Team Learning. *This presentation will begin by defining shared vision and team learning and explaining why developing a shared vision and team learning opportunities is important to organizational disciplines. Next, I will apply the concepts of shared vision and team learning to the apathy that is prevalent in secondary classrooms. Then, I will share my analysis of how shared vision and team learning interact with one another and systems thinking. Lastly, I will ask three questions to promote continuous improvement and organizational learning regarding apathy in secondary classrooms. *The targeted audience for this presentation is secondary educators. *Shared vision can be defined as what people really want. It is a force inside people’s hearts that creates a sense of commonality by connecting people together as people desire. This commonality provides focus and energy for accomplishing goals that are personally meaningful. This is important in a classroom because when there is a shared vision, students are not simply complying to education standards, but they become personally committed to education since it is something they care about. It is important when we talk about a shared vision, that we are not trying to force a vision on our students but enrolling ourselves in the vision. Teachers should not inflate the benefits of education but encourage students to figure out their personal “why”. Why do they come to school everyday? We should not focus on negative reasons such as their parents telling them they have to. Perhaps a better question to ask students might be what are you going to take away from your education today? It is a choice. Students who say nothing will take away nothing because that is their goal. Apathy is a problem we see in classrooms because students believe they get nothing from their education. May students believe they are wasting their time. If we can encourage positive goals like building life skills such as being on time, then perhaps students can buy in and commit themselves to their education to reduce apathy. Instead of focusing on how can we reduce apathy teachers should focus on answering the question ‘how can I get this child to value education?’ If every student and the teacher can find value in education, this shared vision can increase the success of the students and the classroom. Having a shared vision compels new ways of thinking and acting, enables risk taking and experimentation, and helps students reflect on their shortcomings so the classroom can be successful. *Team learning builds on shared vision. When cohorts have views that complement each other, those views can align so everyone can function as a whole unit. It is not enough to simply have a shared vision people must be able to work together to put their shared vision to action. *This is the act of team learning. Team learning involves innovative, coordinated action where everyone has their own role in empowering the whole team. Each team member should be conscious of the other team members and behave in a way that complements each other’s actions. This is important because when everyone comes together and works towards the same goal, success happens. The apathy prevalent in classrooms today can be combatted by developing team learning skills. In the classroom, the teacher has a role and every student has a role. If the teacher is playing their part successfully and students are working with the teacher to do their part, success will happen. For example, in my classroom I use a guided lecture method where I present learning concepts to the students. While I am doing my role of presenting, students’ roles include actively listening, writing down the notes, and asking clarifying questions. Typically, when both do their part well, the lesson will be proven successful based on the scores on the student’s practice assignment. If either person is not doing their part, for example

the student is apathetic, therefore not listening or writing notes, then the student will not do well on the practice and this poor grade will reflect poorly on the teacher and the teacher will have to spend more time with the student to reteach the concept. This effects the classroom as a whole. If we can encourage students to be conscious of their role and how their apathy affects the entire classroom, perhaps we can fix the apathy issue. Remember, we are all part of the same team where together everyone achieves more. *Systems thinking is connected to shared vision because a shared vision should be a long-term goal. System’s thinkers believe that long-term focus is the key to success and they believe in their ability to change the future. They know that we create our own realities and there are things we can do to work towards a shared vision. For team learning, systems thinking actually promotes defensiveness because the central message of systems thinking is that we create our own reality. Sometimes people do not want to admit that the very problem they are trying to solve is the consequence of their own actions and no one else’s. In a classroom, students are quick to defend their apathy by blaming the teacher for their lack of success and saying they are “bad teachers” when the reality is that they chose not to do their part. *Here are three questions to promote continuous improvement and organizational learning. How are my actions contributing to the problem? What are the roles of the teacher and the student in the classroom? And What is the value of education? By thinking about the answers to these three questions, teachers and students can work towards a shared vision and team learning with successful results. *I hope you remember these three things from this video if nothing else: 1. a shared vision trumps the right vision every time! 2. together everyone achieves more! 3. you create your own reality! *Thank you!

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