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On Being Judged in Our Classrooms – 2
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6 thoughts on “On Being Judged in Our Classrooms – 2”
Quoting Ben, “Except for people who train us like Teri Wiechart. Teri is an example, Laurie Clarcq is another and Sabrina Janzcak a third, of people who are honest and brave and have our well being at heart when coaching us.”
You make me want to try even harder to be a better coach in order to live up to the image you have of me. And to be put in the same sentence with Laurie and Sabrina is high praise, indeed. Thank you.
Teri all I heard about NTPRS in Dallas was how the coaching you organized was the best thing about the conference. It’s natural to you. You don’t judge. Run with it and train the thousands of new teachers who are now trying to catch the CI train. It runs through Ohio! You have Tamula and Chris and others there already. You guys are set. The train is out of the station and picking up speed. We have been waiting for this ride for many years. CI trains are now all over the place. Awesome!
It was a team effort. We worked hard to find the way to guide and not judge. We went to upstate New York to plan. Chill (Carol Hill) was there, as was Laurie, Rochelle Barry, Janet Holzer, Gary DiBianca (another Ohioan), and Lizette Liebold. And when we got to iFLT, there was also Bryce Hedstrom, Carrie Toth and Katya Paukova. Then at NTPRS, add Scott Benedict, Michelle Kindt, Kelly Ferguson, Trish Eastland, Kristen Eastland, Bernard Rizzotto, Leslie Davison, Nelly Hughes(another Ohioan), Doug Stone and Haiyun Lu. Plus several others from the Coaching for Coaches workshop, including Sabrina and Clarice Swaney who stayed close to help, too.
Thanks for the kudos. We plan to make the magic happen again next summer. The day before NTPRS we will hold another Coaching for Coaches workshop. You will learn about yourself and you own skills will grow, in addition to learning how we view coaching. And of course, at NTPRS, iFLT and again in Agen, France.
This PLC is just another way to coach each other. Thanks for the forum.
It takes a village to drive the train (to mix metaphores.)
Here’s my attitude toward being observed. It comes in part because I am now an “old” teacher, but largely because of something I learned a long time ago when I was a clergyman. For 8 years I was a Methodist minister, and while in seminary, I had to do student chaplaincy work. Walking into a hospital room to visit total strangers was really intimidating because of all the things I didn’t know (as some have said here about admins coming into the room). Henri Nouwen, a Catholic spiritual writer, in his book The Wounded Healer, offered me something that changed my whole experience then and still does in these same situations. he suggested that as healers, ministers (teachers!!!) that we choose to see ourselves as the host welcoming those we visit (teach) into our home. The host in his/her home is the one most at home and has all the power in the world to welcome the outsider into a safe place. Every time I stood at the door of a hospital room, trembling and feeling just a little sick at my stomach, I stopped and began imagining that I was the host going in to welcome a sick and weary traveller into safe haven. And I would transform into the real me. This was not a mental game. It really put me back in touch with the ME that is home in my own skin.
That’s what I do every day in my classroom. This is my home. I welcome every traveller into safe haven. When that admin comes in, I pause in class, and in Latin, ask my students to bid the guest welcome. They always do, and I can see the face of the admin soften. They are human beings, after all, and from my conversations with them, weary, too, frightened, too, and overwhelmed, too. No reason why they cannot rest a bit in my room. And, no reason why I am going to do anything different just because they walked in. You are the host in your room. Welcome every traveller. The least lovely one may be the one who gets the most out of your welcome.
Thank you for this, Bob. I heartily concur. Most of the time I also ask my students (in German, though) to welcome our guest; I will seek to make it all of the time.
thanks Bob! Great reminder…I used to do this, but I need to reinstate it with the new crop of students. It also will fit in nicely with the “family” feeling I am instilling in my classes. They are certainly learning the “we” conjugation well, as everything is about ALL of US – together, like a family!