Be a Difference-Making Teacher
You are a teacher. What you say and what you do are both critical to the kind of classroom you have.
More important than curriculum and pedagogy, however, is the passion, creativity and excellence you live out in your classroom. Those are the profoundly important, catchable characteristics that make your teaching leadership really work. Classroom methods need to have a radical change if we are going to infuse our students with the passion, energy and excellence they need.
Our Invitation to You We invite you to join us as we share some of the things that we have observed in our careers that lead to being a successful leader in the classroom. If you are looking for textbook type discourse, this isn't the place for you. We simply share some practical, nuts-n-bolts types of things that, while not profound, might trigger some thoughts in your own mind that send the message, "I could do that." Click on the following highlighted links and visit the pages of the topics you find interesting. Hints, Kinks and Whoops! Classroom Management ideas that transcend the norm and really work. Don't Just Say It... Live It! Leadership doesn't just come from the boss. YOU are the leader of your students. Learn how to show them genuine ways of being the leader they might become. Keep Them Guessing Creative Ideas to keep your class interested don't always have to spring from serendipity. Discover the method of generating your own ideas by analyzing the examples we have used. Teaching as an Art Form Excellence in the classroom begins long before the kids walk in the door, but the rewarding fruition of your work comes as your students observe excellence in action. Higher Order Learning Innovative Methods don't have much carryover unless your classroom presence and activities are rooted in the fundamental principles that make learning content have life long meaning. Functional Action Steps Facilitative Leadership might not have much meaning to you now, but after exploring some Action Steps that we present, your "hidden leadership" could create profound change in your school. High Tech Mastery Learning Online Learning sounds so easy, yet somehow always ends up taking more time and effort than we intended. We're not teenage techies, but have developed some unique and functional high tech things that work quite well in the learning process. Don't Nullify, Modify Curriculum doesn't seem like it should be a tough issue, but as soon as you get students with learning difficulties, ADD, enabling parents or just plain lazy... things change, and you need to make some modifications that reach those students. Discover some methods you can use effectively.
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