Best Lessons In Teacher Teamwork
I work at a very unique high school. We use open inquiry to facilitate learning, throwing curriculum on its head. It can be wild at times. We believe in emergence, allowing learning to follow lines of questioning that comes from the learner. Naturally, groups from around similar interests. Over the last 3 years, I have worked on turning those groups into high functioning teams. It has been quite the challenge. We have done all kinds of crazy things: shoot films, produce software, make hardware, create video games, and much more. Through this work, we have learned so many valuable lessons in developing startup teams. We use Scrum to organize ourselves. I highly recommend using this methodology for all teams. At the heart of it, we have learned that what truly blocks teams is most often not a technical issue or a matter of competence, rather, it is usually interpersonal problems that stop a team cold. The Key: Reviewing in Retrospect ...