Topic #1: Briefly share any experiences you’ve had when you’ve had a part in introducing a new program or a new way to do things at your job site. Please share any triumphs or frustrations you’ve had trying to improve the system or when you’ve pioneered or piloted some outside the norm.
This is easy for me because I’m the one at my school that is alway trying out something new. What I find is that some of my fellow teachers, love trying new things and some hate it. Most of the teachers I work with are very supportive of me trying new things as long as it does not mean they have to try something new. Well this year I introduced a program that came to be called, “summer school now”. It is basically, having student come in on a Saturday for four hours to make up work they missed to try and improve their grade so that they did not fail the class and therefor have to take summer school. As I expected, some teacher thought is was great and some did not like it. The ones that did like it, did like it because they did not feel they had the time to do another program to give student yet another break, when we already give them so many breaks already. Well when it was adjusted so that it did not really required that much more of the other teacher time they became much more supportive. We did the program and it was a great success. Now we are offering the program after each of the six week grading periods and the best thing is the teacher are now getting paid for the extra time they are spending on the program. It tool a lot of work to get started and there was the risk that it would not be successful but if we don’t try we’ll never know.
kind'a hard to read gray on blue... which might be intentional... hmmmm.
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