This week has been a very interesting one! At the beginning of the week I spent a lot of time thinking about how I can get my residents and their collaborative teachers to learn about me on a personal, yet professional level. I really wanted to focus on building a professional relationship with my peers and students, but was struggling with how. Then, after a meeting with our leadership team on Wednesday, I figured out my purpose - my new purpose - and a way to show who I am and what I bring to the table in this role. Work on shifting my students from being good teachers to become great teachers! Now, of course, this sounds like the expectation of most jobs - to move from good to great - but this is not just any old job in any old profession. This is an opportunity to have a direct affect on a teacher's ability to be great in front of children, parents, administrators, and peers. This is an opportunity for all of the resources available for my students to collaborate on how to move them from good to great teachers.
Sitting in our conference room, we discussed a variety of approaches to shift the paradigm. What if we utilize planning, videoing, discussion, and reflection more effectively? What if we simply create a plan-of-attack which focuses in on how our students utilize all of their resources for a lesson and make it their own? What if we have our future teachers work directly with their content coach, their partnership resource teacher, and their collaborative teacher to review, discuss, and provide constructive feedback on the lesson they executed, in turn allowing them to reflect on the lesson, write the next lesson, execute the lesson, then reflect again? Wouldn't this be the course of action to shift our students from being good to great?
I've always been a huge proponent of professional development and our program can do this on a daily basis! Moving a student, any student, from good to great is a tremendous task - yet has unlimited rewards! I believe that this shift in my approach and my thinking will not only help my students, but will ultimately allow for me to accomplish my initial goal for this past week - get my students and collaborative teacher to know who I am and what I can do...on a personal AND professional level!
Sitting in our conference room, we discussed a variety of approaches to shift the paradigm. What if we utilize planning, videoing, discussion, and reflection more effectively? What if we simply create a plan-of-attack which focuses in on how our students utilize all of their resources for a lesson and make it their own? What if we have our future teachers work directly with their content coach, their partnership resource teacher, and their collaborative teacher to review, discuss, and provide constructive feedback on the lesson they executed, in turn allowing them to reflect on the lesson, write the next lesson, execute the lesson, then reflect again? Wouldn't this be the course of action to shift our students from being good to great?
I've always been a huge proponent of professional development and our program can do this on a daily basis! Moving a student, any student, from good to great is a tremendous task - yet has unlimited rewards! I believe that this shift in my approach and my thinking will not only help my students, but will ultimately allow for me to accomplish my initial goal for this past week - get my students and collaborative teacher to know who I am and what I can do...on a personal AND professional level!