We know that your time is valuable. As you complete this course, here are some guidelines for maximizing your time and energy while learning.
- Be an active participant in the learning activities, reflection and review opportunities provided throughout this course.
- Collaborate often with a partner and/or team to plan and implement the strategies and practices you learn.
- Differentiate the content for yourself to make it fit where you are as a professional; adapt what you see and hear to fit your style, your students’ needs, and the good things you are already doing.
- Evaluate where you are by asking, “How good am I at that?”, and “How can I get better?” Self-evaluation is the key to self-improvement and adding even just a few strategies or ideas to your lessons will move you and your students forward.
- Focus on continuous growth and concentrate on learning something that will help you and your school. Change can be challenging. Work with your colleagues to start small to build micro-habits, growing best practices over time.
- Generate questions, comments, and ideas to engage with new learning in order to plan and teach using new or adapted strategies and practices
- Hunt for Idea Treasures and keep track of them. Look for 5-10 new or adapted things you can use tomorrow. Listen for, and look for, the treasures that challenge your current thought and actions. This is when you will learn to get better.
- Keep a Next Steps Journal to create an implementation plan for how you will apply what you have learned. Do not try to do everything at once, but plan for gradual implementation with a focus on continuous growth towards quality.
