I work in a low-income school with a high transiency population and many many challenges. As a result, our staff has adopted the professional learning community strategy where we collaborate and help each other with our student achievement goals. We’ve done okay for ourselves and our school has become a renowned place in the district and county.
As a result of our high scores, teachers come in from other schools to observe a few of us who are trainers. We’ve had people even fly in from Northern California. Today, in fact, I have some teachers who want to learn edi coming to my classroom to observe a lesson. With all this attention, it’s easy to lose the focus. My feeling is, if I am nervous then I am worried about impressions and it shouldn’t be about that. i should be concerned with being simply a link in a chain relating knowledge down the line. If you are bragging, then you don’t have anything to offer. When you are peer sharing, you are worth your weight in gold.
Do you know what I mean about teachers who brag?