At our school we work incredibly hard and I think successfully in promoting student success and recognitions of their learning. We have certificates, happy grams that are shared with home, award assemblies that honour academic, sporting and personal excellence, we celebrate our inspirational students with large banners and t-shirts and this year we started adding this to e-Portfolios and our school facebook page. There is always room for improvement and new ideas however I do think our students success is recognised and celebrated on an almost daily basis.
However the same cannot be said for the way we celebrate teacher success. Sure there are thankyous in newsletters, personal letters sent to their and of course just a quiet chat and thankyou but it isn't really acknowledging their success in an in-depth way.
So this is the celebration I am creating:
This is about recongising and celebrating teacher success
The participants for the first go at this will be the current teachers at our school. I do see the possibility of this extending to our board.
What will we celebrate: this year we have been using evernote to digitally record our teacher as learner models and anything that shows are contribution and understanding of the RTC's.
(Just learning to use evernote was a celebration in itself.)
Rather than appraisal meetings and feeling the need to defend and justify we will have a celebration afternoon. Of course it will involve food! The purpose of the afternoon will be for teachers to share with each other the many successes they have had during the year. These successes may be personal, academic or classroom based. Teachers can share their celebrations through the work they have already done on evernote. This may include notes, audio, video and photos.
The outcome:
If teachers are to view themselves as learners then it is important that their success are acknowledged. To often we look at the 'not done' or 'could be better' without focusing on the 'WOW'. This is a chance for teachers to be celebrated and recognised by their peers.
The best outcome for this celebration will be teachers feeling valued and keen to carry on. Often these situations feel like blowing ones trumpet and we are not good at that. I am hoping that our school can find a way to share in teacher success just as we do student success.
It would be my hope that teachers learn to take the compliments and accolades and use that to drive future learning and ideas.
In developing this sort of relationship we are developing a robust model of trust. This will lead to the challenging conversations and the search for better knowledge and new ideas.
These celebrations can be blogged and shared by teachers as they see fit.
The outcome:
If teachers are to view themselves as learners then it is important that their success are acknowledged. To often we look at the 'not done' or 'could be better' without focusing on the 'WOW'. This is a chance for teachers to be celebrated and recognised by their peers.
The best outcome for this celebration will be teachers feeling valued and keen to carry on. Often these situations feel like blowing ones trumpet and we are not good at that. I am hoping that our school can find a way to share in teacher success just as we do student success.
It would be my hope that teachers learn to take the compliments and accolades and use that to drive future learning and ideas.
In developing this sort of relationship we are developing a robust model of trust. This will lead to the challenging conversations and the search for better knowledge and new ideas.
These celebrations can be blogged and shared by teachers as they see fit.
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