It’s my last day, officially retiring from full time teaching, but I continue to have conversations with my colleagues and how educators can get support for their ideas and activities.
One colleague spoke about programming yesterday; he has an interest in increasing the interest in certain components of the larger program. I responded by saying that you need to look beyond the individual program in isolation. The administration is interested in cross-curricular ideas, where more than one subject area combine to offer multiple experiences for our students. It’s the way the world works today! Later that same day, two additional colleagues in the arts described their intention to combine and work together on a particular project. Again, I mentioned to the two teacher friends that they are encouraged to take note about the school Principal and where he is supporting certain full school initiatives. I continued to offer that it’s wonderful that you two teachers are promoting this project, but begin now at this time of the year, let the school Principal know that you are planning this new idea and show how it connects to the project initiated by the School Principal. These types of collaborations will almost guarantee your success, in my opinion. Your vision has to be broader and greater in depth, to go beyond the single-subject area. Also, today, the big push is how you incorporate technology into your subject discipline.
For example, the music department should work together with multi-media (tech / communications department), to develop projects that involve many pieces. This type of project is exciting, it’s valuable and current with what is happening in the world. Offer your students challenging, creative projects that involve collaboration and can be tied to many subject areas across the curriculum and you will most certainly guarantee agreement to support.
Bye for now.
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