How fantastic! As I was reading your post, I thought about how second year
teachers might be prime IF they had a facilitator for support. I also thought
about how easily things can sometimes become habits especially if a person is
learning a multitude of new things at once (sometimes I'm surprised ANYONE
comes back for their second year!) and that speaks toward not waiting to read
things and implement things. It's certainly better to begin the way you want
to go. :-)
Cheshire-Puss, would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here?
That depends a good deal on where you want to get to, said the Cat. I don't
much care where, said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the
Cat. Alice in Wonderland
> I'm proud to say that this year, the group is still receiving extra
> professional development. They are now 2nd year teachers, and they will meet
> monthly as a group. I've been asked to moderate/facilitate their meetings
> (so exciting!) and my asst. superintendent has given them all a copy of To
> Understand. My initial reaction was that they are not ready for this. I've
> been teaching 8 years, and To Understand was an intense read for me my first
> time through. But after thinking about those teachers, I thought now is the
> perfect time for them to delve in! Now is the perfect time to take them
> deeper. Even though the ideas in To Understand are BIG ideas, shouldn't they
> be thinking BIG? Even if they are not quite ready to implement those ideas
> in their classrooms, shouldn't they at the very least be thinking about
> understanding and how to "get their kids there"?
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