Showcase Your Teachers at Faculty Meetings

Fellow Principals, EVERY Faculty Meeting should include:

1.  A teacher showcasing their innovative instructional efforts.

2.  Teachers learning about a resource they can potentially use in their own classroom.

Consistently, with the tremendous help of our Instructional Technology Facilitator (@jellenlord), we are able to showcase a technology-based best instructional practice through our "Tech Gnome."  She selects a teacher each month who has demonstrated an active use of technology within the classroom, resulting in increased student engagement and moving the students up higher levels of Revised Bloom's Taxonomy to create authentic work products.

The requirement for the Gnome winner is to present their innovative resources during the following Faculty Meeting.

.@melissascire sharing @Padlet, Zoom, @fishbowl as a result of her January 'Tech Gnome' Award. #LNCPride #edtechchat pic.twitter.com/hRlN122iaq

— Craig Smith (@CSmithGoBlue) February 24, 2016

Today's AWESOME Teacher-led #edtech Showcase: @Tweetdeck @KQED @skypeclassroom #Quizletlive @breakoutEDU #LNCPride pic.twitter.com/03IEa4ioxP

— Craig Smith (@CSmithGoBlue) April 20, 2016

This year alone, we have showcased teachers from the following areas: Science, World Language (one more next month), Math, Exceptional Children, English (x2), and our Technology teacher.  Each teacher has the autonomy to structure their sharing however they like, which includes providing examples of how their instructional strategy or resource can be used in other disciplines.

At the conclusion of this year, we will be retiring the Gnome.  Starting next year, we will require each department to select a month to share instructional best practices to the entire faculty, not necessarily with the expectation of the resources being technology-centered.

The immediate change will also broaden the faculty involved in sharing their resources, hopefully encouraging further content-collaboration as the respective teams prepare for their opportunity to share.

We will continue to showcase our teachers (lead) and hopefully our teachers leave every Faculty Meeting with another resource to implement (learn).

Thank you for viewing,

CS

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