Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Taking Action Part III

Encouraging the Heart


  • Be creative when it comes to recognition.  Be spontaneous.  Have fun.
Educational technology integration may be daunting to some teachers. Trying something new whether it goes perfectly or fails, deserves recognition.  Setting up a digital recognition board for teachers would be a fun way to honor hard work.  Teachers could earn digital badges for each milestone met, and small celebrations could be held when every teacher met a goal or benchmark. http://www.badgelist.com is a great place to begin.


  • End each of your team meetings with a round of public praise.
I would accomplish this by having each teacher share one success that happened in their classroom recently.  This would allow for others to reflect and find out something about what others are doing.  They would possibly find resources for things they are struggling with.  Meetings would always end on a positive, reflective note that leaves everyone leaving with a smile.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for sharing the badgelist site. I'm going to look into this for sure as we have had some awesome leaps forward with innovation in the classroom this year and now it's time to build on that success. This is a perfect way to do that, and very innovative I might add :-)

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