No Series: Making Good Teachers Great: Shaping Teacher Identity

Making Good Teachers Great: Shaping Teacher Identity

Lesson Objective: Learn how understanding your teacher identity can positively impact student success.
Webinar / Professional Learning / Coaching
56 MIN

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Discussion and Supporting Materials

Thought starters

  1. What are some words that help describe your identity?
  2. What life lesson did your favorite teacher teach you?
  3. Do you agree that literacy is the foundation of all learning? Why or why not?

17 Comments

  • Private message to Concherra Gamble-Woolfolk

1. passionate, creative,  curious

2. My favorite teacher taught me the value of tenacity and resilience in the face of adversity, and it was one of the most profound lessons I have ever learned. Setbacks are opportunities for learning and growth, a belief my teacher instilled in me through their unwavering support and encouragement.

3.Yes, the foundation of all learning activities is literacy. Beyond reading and writing, literacy enables people to comprehend, evaluate, and communicate successfully in a variety of contexts and subjects. Strong literacy abilities are essential for understanding scientific texts, solving mathematical puzzles, and engaging with historical narratives. They encourage the ability to think critically, solve problems, and pursue lifelong learning. Fundamentally, literacy is a gateway to knowledge, an ability to comprehend complexity, and a means of navigating the complex educational and non-educational environments. It is not just a set of skills.

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  • Private message to Ted Gould III

1. Passionate, Creative, Strategic, Committed 

2. The teachers that I connected with all believed in the power of "yes" and that the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. 

3. Do you agree that literacy is the foundation of all learning? Why or why not?

I agree that literacy is certainly the foundation for core subjects. However, there are so many things that we learn from observation and trial and error. For instance, I have played a musical instrument since I was seven years old and worked professionally as a musician for many years. The bulk of my knowledge and competence in that area came from observation and mimicking. Many years passed before I became a literate musician who could both read and write music. In my personal learning experience, it has been easier to 'reverse engineer.'  

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  • Private message to Jeremy Dixon

shy, quiet

compassion

yes literacy is very impoortant, if you do not understand what your reading or studying than you will not retain anything.

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  • Private message to Cameron Kelley
  1. Honest, Ambitious, Confident, Encouraging.
  2. In high school, my history teacher Mr. O'Donnell taught me the importance of contextualizing certain historical events to their time, place, and any surrounding events or happenings to glean a better understanding of how and why things happened as they did.
  3. Absolutely. Literacy is one of if not the building block for further learning. The more literate one becomes, the easier it is to acquire knowledge in all other areas and aspects of life.
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  • Private message to Peter Hawkins
  1. What are some words that help describe your identity?

Learner, Encourager, Helping others be successful

 

  1. What life lesson did your favorite teacher teach you?

Taking risks is the only way to learn.

 

  1. Do you agree that literacy is the foundation of all learning? Why or why not?

Absolutely literacy is the foundation of all learning. We think and learn using language. Literacy means being fully functional in a language.

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