S2EP06 How can I keep my team's positivity and innovation from alienating coworkers? (Ask Angela Anything)
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2015
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
A TfT listener wonders how to cope when her cohesive team is mocked by other teachers in the school. How can collaborative groups of teachers prevent their positive, innovative attitudes from wedging a divide between them and other colleagues? In this epsiode, I share 6 tips for extending a bridge to distrustful co-workers and reaching out to isolated teachers who may be interested in joining the collaborative spirit.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 2 episode 6 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm your host Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth |
| 0:12.0 | into the minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead. |
| 0:17.0 | Today I'm going to share some thoughts on maintaining a positive, innovative attitude toward teaching among your grade level team without alienating |
| 0:26.3 | your other coworkers. |
| 0:28.6 | Visit truth for teachers.com to get the transcript and links to recommended resources or to share your thoughts on the show. |
| 0:36.0 | So every couple of episodes I like to answer a question that a listener has submitted. |
| 0:40.3 | I call this the Ask Angela Anything segment. |
| 0:43.0 | So you can submit a question of your own by going to truth for teachers.com. |
| 0:48.0 | Just scroll down and you'll see a speakpipe box says, start recording. |
| 0:53.4 | When you hit that button, it will record your question for me, |
| 0:56.1 | and you can do it anonymously if you'd like. |
| 0:58.4 | And then I'll include it on a future episode of the show |
| 1:01.0 | and record an answer for you. If you don't want your voice on the |
| 1:04.0 | podcast I also have a Google form available and you can just type your question |
| 1:07.7 | in. So the question that I'm answering today was submitted by a truth for |
| 1:12.0 | teachers listener named Deb and she wrote |
| 1:14.6 | this I'm fortunate to work with five other wonderful third grade teachers the issue we |
| 1:20.8 | have as a grade level is that we're viewed as and mocked as the dream team because we're all extremely positive and we work well together. |
| 1:29.0 | Our successful collaboration and positive attitude seems to be wedging a divide between us and |
| 1:35.1 | other grade levels in the school. |
| 1:37.4 | We see it as unfortunate and a sign of jealousy. |
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