TI Pinpoints
Educators' Hidden and Unmet Needs
for Essential Team Building and Teaming Skills
Working on teams is an increasingly
significant aspect of classroom and after-school life, yet children and
adolescents often lack the skills and awareness to function well on teams.
In addition, staff members on teams that are not functioning optimally
often report that they are unable to improve their own teams or are unwilling
to try and, thus, they represent suboptimal role models and guides for
the young people in their care. This inability of teams to function well
compromises both delivery of the curriculum and the functioning of the
school/agency in ways that (1) are not typically accounted for in formal
reviews and (2) are remediable, if one knows what to do.
TI
Has Wide Applicability to Diverse Populations
The Teaming Inventory (TI) was
developed in collaboration with the Yale Child Study Center's School
Development Program (SDP) and is based on the career-long experience
of many senior facilitators of teams within schools and educational agencies.
Teaming refers to performing the specific actions and following the specific
processes that ensure the efficient and effective functioning of a team.
Excellent teaming rarely occurs in the absence of ongoing team building
, which refers to developing and maintaining trust, clear communication,
and healthy working relationships on teams.
Through the TI, IASG
provides schools and youth-serving agencies with detailed feedback
on the status of staff team building and teaming. IASG also offers
professional development, mentoring, and/or facilitation based on the TI results.
Both the feedback and the support services are powerful ways to improve
the functioning of school/agency and classroom.
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TI Results
Are Confidential
As with all of IASG's surveys, questionnaires, and inventories,
the confidentiality of all respondents is assured, and scored results
are reported only in the aggregate. There is no place on the instrument
in which to write one's name, although in some instances the team's name
may be requested. Each completed survey is sealed in its own envelope
by the respondent and opened by IASG off-site. Pertinent open-ended responses
are retyped by IASG staff members before being submitted to program administrators.
How We
Score TI
The TI has
65 items with a 5-point Likert response format. This means
that respondents are asked to indicate the intensity of their
agreement or disagreement with statements that relate to
team building and teaming. All of the survey items are scored
in the positive direction: All survey items are scored so
that the higher numbers reflect higher functioning or more
positive perceptions. In order to achieve this, some items
must be reverse-scored because agreement reflects poorer
functioning or more negative perceptions (e.g., “On my team
at work, we often leave a meeting still confused about the
next steps we are going to take”).
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