I like the atmosphere of the first day of school for teachers.
Normally we go to school a bit earlier to say hi to colleagues. "Hey, good to see you!" "How's your summer?" - all tanned, relaxed teachers are hugging each other. New teachers are introducing themselves, smiles everywhere, and positive feelings are there. We look at the empty classrooms, and open boxes from last year and big bag from home filled with stuff. All teachers are excited and motivated for the new school year.
Today we talked about how we keep ourselves motivated to model as learners.
Growth Mindset is the one of the keys.
Alongside the Growth Mindset, the requirement from IB is collaboration. This is essential in teaching IB curriculum, and yet many IB schools feel it is difficult to achieve the level of requirement as collaboration needs more planning, meetings, and contributions - simply the matter of time. However, actually collaboration is not time consuming as you get familiar with doing so, and it helps your teaching a lot. Here is the link.
As a community we need to collaborate more with teachers of course, but also students and parents. Also we talked about how we collaborate with educators outside of school as well as in-school. Our school has been teaching PYP for 10 years and it's high time to be mentors for schools around us. I really hope our school is going to be a hub of teacher learning.
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