This year, we will all adopt an Inquiry Stance.
Open
--Welcome ideas, even conflicting ones
--Prepare to change our positions and opinions
Wondering
--Be playful with ideas and words
Committed
--Actively involved with ideas, both verbally and nonverbally
Engaging of others
--Building on each other’s utterances
--Agreeing/disagreeing with others and our own ideas
Supportive of own and others’ ideas
--Offering evidence and opinions
--Encouraging risk taking
Please post a comment to tell us all how you are honoring this essential agreement in your work so far this year.
Please post a comment to tell us all how you are honoring this essential agreement in your work so far this year.
2 comments:
Having new staff working together for the first time provides many opportunities to be open and welcoming to new ideas and to build off each other. Sometimes these are difficult conversations to have (after all, don't we each know the best way to do things?) but they are necessary for the smooth running of the classroom. The trickiest part is finding the time for everyone to sit down together to talk. We haven't done it yet, but we think the best thing to do is just set a time once a week and stick with it. In the end, good communication between the teachers will lead to a better program for our kids.
I'm wondering about working across programs as well...do the talking walls offer opportunities to do this? And the Central Field Trips should help when those are up and running.
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