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Process is Greater Than Product

5/10/2016

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Submitted by Emmanuel Andre
S.T.A.T. Teacher, Owings Mills High School
The other day I had an idea on how teachers new to the notion could easily implement small group instruction.  It was pretty basic, but it needed to be so that any teacher at any comfort level could approach the strategy.  This week I’ll be working with an English teacher to implement it and if it goes well, she and I will roll it out to the rest of the staff.  I’m excited.  Being able to make teachers stronger is one of the reasons I got into education.  It is the reason I applied for the STAT position.  It is the reason I support the S.T.A.T. Initiative.

The day we came back from spring break a camera crew showed up at our building and we were named a “Lighthouse” school.  As a former English teacher, I gotta say—I LOVE that metaphor. I love the notion of us learning how to do something, or how not to do something, and then helping others from the vantage point of experience.  It’s a task that I think we are suited for.

Over the past three years I’ve given whole group, small group and one on one professional development to the staff at Owings Mills.  The results are exactly what you think they might be.  Some have taken to the notion of responsive teaching, some have struggled with the idea and some have dismissed it as the next buzzword. We fall across a continuum of current practice, all with the potential to grow and better serve students. For that, I am also excited.

As the status quo shifts, as we learn exactly what these Digital Natives know and don’t know, as we challenge our own notions of good teaching-- we get stronger.  We stand now in the moment right after the before picture but a long way from the after shot.  Over the next year you will get to see the process of our change.  You will hear from teachers, administrators, parents and, of course, students.  Pay attention to our successes and learn from our struggles.  Your before picture was just taken too. 
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