Sunday, October 5, is World Teachers’ Day. World Teachers’ Day was created to support educators and ensure that the needs of future generations will be met by all educators. To celebrate World Teachers’ Day we wanted to share some valuable advice for educators from New York City Schools Chancellor, Carmen Fariña.
Below is the full video, but here are some of my favorite tips from Chancellor Fariña:
●Don‘t be afraid to seek help from other teachers. Discussing content and sharing ideas is a key part of creating successful lessons.
●New teachers should make time to visit a master teacher’s classroom and observe their classroom management style. Collaborating with senior teachers will provide new ideas and best practices to implement in your classrooms. And senior teachers shouldn’t be afraid to come observe new teachers –teaching is a group effort.
●Increasing parent engagement is critical. One size does not fit all. Find out what is important to the parents of your students and broker relationships through that point. Ask parents what they want out of their school, not what the school wants out of them.
●Too many things get in the way of learning and education.Ask yourself,“why are we doing this and does it benefit the students?”
