Valuing our Talents
FMS Teachers and Staff identify and share our talents
At our afternoon professional development, we used resources from an article about Finding Our Hidden Talents to discuss the many different talents of our teachers and staff. We reflected on these questions:
- What part of your teaching gives you the most energy?
- When are you most proud of your students’ accomplishments?
- What talents contributed to this success, and how would you describe them to a colleague?
Opportunity for Personal Reflection
Each person reflected on the questions individually and recorded responses on a note card.
Give one, Get one
We used the Give one, Get one protocol to share our "proudest proud" talent with one another
Talent Wall
We then summarized the talent that we each have that helps us bring out the best in our students. We recorded them on a "talent wall".
Ongoing Reflection Back in the Classroom
Teachers hung the note card back in their classroom to think about how this talent impacts their students and themselves "in the real world classroom". They are going to share their ideas about these questions at the next afternoon professional development:
- What are some specific examples that demonstrate your use of this talent?
- How did this make you feel about the lesson that day?
- Was there any positive feedback from your students as a result of this? If so, what did they do or say that let you know your talent helped a student or students?
Florence Middle School
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