My goal as facilitator in a secondary education setting:

 

CONNECT to students as individuals

• Get to know them well

• Where are they coming from - homelife, previous education, country?

• How do they learn best?

• How do I differentiate their learning to make them successful?

• Recognize differences and help students see potential strength in this

• Celebrate effort and success

• Build a community within

 

EMPOWER

• Help students see their gifts

• Plan around their needs to show them their strengths

• Encourage creative/outside the box thinking

• Remind students of their own personal journey

 

FACILITATE. Students will become:

• Independent thinkers through creative learning such as Project Based Learning

 

MAKE 21st century SKILLS a PRIORITY. Students will learn to:

• Solve problems flexibly

• Think critically

• Use knowledge and skill sets in new situations

• Set personal learning goals

• Self check for understanding

• Access resources for enhancing understanding

• Become self motivated learners

 

GUIDE PRINCIPLES. Identify what these skills look like and how as a teacher, I will help students achieve these in and outside the classroom to become productive members of society.

• Self development

• Self motivation

• Responsibility

 

All of the above can take place and create a healthy, exciting learning environment if I

SET PARAMETERS

• Spend first weeks creating good classroom behavior/study habits

• Create high expectations

• Consistent

• Hold students accountable

• Contracts

• PBIS (Positive Behavior Interventions and Support)

• School policy