George Couros

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"Strategies for the Struggling Student" - From @Mo_physics on the #InnovatorsMindset #Podcast Watch on YouTube https://buff.ly/3enJFTn

This is from my latest post at georgecouros.ca: What I started to realize was that what someone did in their classroom didn’t necessarily make me more or less of a teacher, just different. I had strengths that others had, and others had strengths that I didn’t possess. To me, there are some standards that we must all share in our classrooms (focusing on relationships, empowering learners. etc.). Still, I think different styles of delivery are beneficial, as long as they ar...e focused on providing great experiences for our students. There are teachers that I really enjoyed how they taught and others that I didn’t, yet my friends did. The same is true with books I read, movies I like to watch, and so on. Education is about elevation. Not only of our students but of one another. Everything we do to create better opportunities for those we serve should be cheered on and learned from, but they don’t have to be replicated in every classroom as it is. We all bring different strengths, passions, and talents to our classrooms, and utilizing them to provide great but varied experiences, is beneficial to learning. Read more at georgecouros.ca/blog/archives/13162 #InnovatorsMindset #teachers #teachersofig

"Education is about elevation. Not only of our students but of one another. Everything we do to create better opportunities for those we serve should be cheered on and learned from, but they don’t have to be replicated in every classroom as it is." A Fear of Success and the Elevation of Others https://buff.ly/3b2NKtY

A teacher recently reached out to me and shared her frustration of being "held back" by her own school administration for pursuing a new idea that she believed would be beneficial to students. I shared the following story from "The Innovator's Mindset": Years ago, another educator shared a similar story, explaining that she wanted to try something new called blogging. The teacher asked her principal if she could try it out and, at the time, was told no. The reason?... https://georgecouros.ca/blog/archives/13162