In education, we assess what we value. Most school claim that innovation is of huge importance to them. However, few schools include measures of innovation when assessing learning, appraising teachers, or evaluating leaders.
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Love this idea. Inspired by our time at BETT, I added innovation as a theme to the next round of peer mentoring at our elementary school in Taipei. Instead of observing each other doing a lesson of their choice, we’re asking them to take a risk and do something innovative and get feedback on that process from one of their peers. Then, we’ll utilize a flipped classroom model and have the teachers share an account of their innovative practice with the whole team before coming together to critique them as a group. It’s an exciting time to be a preparing our students for the future!
Love this idea. Inspired by our time at BETT, I added innovation as a theme to the next round of peer mentoring at our elementary school in Taipei. Instead of observing each other doing a lesson of their choice, we’re asking them to take a risk and do something innovative and get feedback on that process from one of their peers. Then, we’ll utilize a flipped classroom model and have the teachers share an account of their innovative practice with the whole team before coming together to critique them as a group. It’s an exciting time to be a preparing our students for the future!
Interesting stuff so I’m hoping to accomplish something more with the challenge set by Seth. Cheers and thanks for the continuing innovations. {^_^}