I think this was a really interesting game to play. It would be interesting to see how different teams of teachers would approach this if grouped by the number of years they have been teaching. Would one group do better than other? Would it matter if one group consisted of people you were typically involved in things compared to those like our slow three?
In our group I believe things ran pretty smoothly, but if we would have done a little more planning, it could have been even better. If we would have spent some extra time making a solid map, or plan or where we would like to go throughout the years, we might have avoiding some of the blocks we encountered by not having the ground work ready before we made the move.
This game made me appreciate a little bit more, the amount and effort it takes to try to make a change. Sometimes it is taken for granted how many moves need to be made to make an effective change. We are quick to spot out when there were not enough moves made for the ground work, but going through this, it solidified the fact you need to do the ground work first before you can implement a change. Hopefully this will stick with me for a while.
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What I would like to see is the administrators in my district play this game. I also think that it would be a great game to play at a staff development day. Break up teams by grade level and see what happens. I agree with you about the appreciation that I now have for changes made. However, I wish that some of the admin would approach change by setting the ground work before the change is made.
Lisa
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