I must say people are only receptive to change when they are ready to make a change. After giving two 40 minute training sessions on "mystery word of the day," and "ABC Graffiti," some of our staff wrote poor exit tickets.
We asked the staff to write on a post it note, "how will you implement this in your classroom." Just a few sour lemons wrote, "I will never it does not show them how to work in the real world." Some just wrote "Golden Lines."
Here we are showing staff a few more tricks to put up their selves, some more strategies to teach with and just a small few did not take it seriously. It makes me wonder why they even teach.
Sorry for venting, I guess a few our our staff are not ready to change. The majority of the staff seemed ready though. I am not sure why I let those small few get to me but it does.
Our session was pretty similar... I felt like the majority were engaged, paticipating, and seemed interested. Then when I read the exit tickets this morning I was shocked at some of the comments. Most of the comments were positive, but there were at least three that were flat-out rude. The exit ticket was "how will you use explicit teaching in your class?" and there were seven or eight people who didn't get the question... (i.e., they just wrote Golden Lines). Even my ninth graders can do a lot better than that.
ReplyDeleteWell like we have heard before. Change has to be wanted from the people making the change. Sometimes it takes a while for things to sticks!
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