ClairVoy.com facilitate teachers trading knowledge
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Excerpted from the website:
- Trading Strategy in Bite Sized Pieces
Clairvoy’s Teacher Assistance website is in the business of allowing colleague-to-colleague transfer of educational strategy in easy-to-use form.
If you tell a teacher why something works, they can implement it in many different ways and settings, differentiating for their students and ensuring student learning.
Trading Strategy, not Lesson Plans:
If you give a teacher a lesson plan, they are good from 9:45am until 10:20am the next morning – student learning, not necessarily addressed.
Clairvoy’s Teacher Assistance website is designed to facilitate teachers trading knowledge – not lesson plans. We focus on the “why.” Why does this work? Why does that not work?
Organized Chaosexternal link, a thoughtful writer, posted the distinction in the following way: "Sometimes it would be nice to have a formula. If you do a, b, c and then multiply times d you'll equal the perfect lesson. The kiddo will learn AND will sit still and listen to you. If you're lazy you can skip c but then he'll only learn some of your lesson. It doesn't work this way. You can do everything by the book and still have the kids fall apart. Your lesson can look perfect and the kids can learn nothing. Your lesson can look like a disaster but actually be successful. And sometimes there is no way to know how it's going to turn out."
Lesson plans can be found everywhere, how to use them cannot.
We try and deliver this strategy, not in 30-page tomes, but in bite-sized pieces. The type of knowledge a teacher can consume during a 15-minute lunch. The type of understanding we, as teachers, can put into practice in many different variations, because the core lesson of the lesson has been communicated—not just the lesson plan. In other words, strategy verses lesson plans.
Professional Learning Community:
"Professional Learning Community" is an overused word(s). By overused, I mean it can be used in a watered down manner, like many other buzz words picked up at the fashion accessories counter of educational conferences. Such use can falsely augment and legitimize almost any management initiative.
But it is a good word, and a good concept. A well intentioned PLC is better than to never have attempted it at all.
Getting to Professional Learning:
I went to university and received a Masters in Special Education. Theory, check.
I started my first year of teaching, and whenever I asked a question, was promptly buried in an avalanche of lesson plans. Practice, check.
I then went to the internet and typed in my immediate question, and was swiftly given 12,978 websites or 0 websites depending on the question. Of the 12,978 websites, 12,950 of them generated about 50 to 100 lessons plans each on the subject. All the lesson plans were the same from website to website. The other 28 websites were useless. Experience, check.
I would ask my year-one mentor for more than a lesson plan, only to be handed a book. Well that’s great, with 23 students, that’s 23 issues a day, or 23 books. With 192 days in the school year, that’s a mere 4,416 books each year to read to find answers to my questions. Experience, check.
So I turned to the professional development the county provides. Jiminy Cricket! How can presenters get up in front of a group of teachers and talk about how to teach and not use any of the concepts they are trying to get across?!? Standing motionless, head down, eyes unwavering from their laptop as they read word-for-word slides about how to use the LEARN model and how better to engage your students. Four hours later, one is well versed in what not to do. For goodness sake, if you don’t know any teachers, I’m sure somewhere in this county we might be able to find you one to talk to about how to do a better presentation! Experience, check.
Then, in my third year, I found a school that has PLC at the core of everything they do; Teacher Research, Literacy Collaborative, Grade Level Groups. And not just lip-service PLC, these are natural, real, deep, dynamic and authentic PLCs in every facet of the school environment. I was in a strategy school. Teachers supported and communicated with one another in short easily to use “teacher talk,” structured many times in just three sentences: challenge, solution and result. Trading strategy suddenly became easy and helpful. I became a better teacher. I could ensure my students learned (good for the self-worth check at the end of each day), and my relationship with my colleagues grew into deep friendships. Professional Nirvana, check.
Clairvoy's Teacher Assistance is a community of educational learners who swap strategies. It's to help those who have not yet found their Professional Nirvana.
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