Teacher Recognition

Let's recognize all of the great teaching and visible learning that is happening in our school! Please fill out THIS form to help us spotlight our amazing teachers. You may nominate as many teachers as you'd like. Nominations will be shared at our meetings. There will be awards for the finalists as well as the teachers that nominated them.

Here are some ideas for recognition.

Hattie's research says that effective teachers...

• create environments in which error is welcomed as a learning opportunity.
• seek feedback about their effect on the progress and proficiency of all of their students.
• focus on providing feedback in an appropriate and timely manner.
• emphasize problem-solving.
• are passionate and inspiring.
• identify the most important ways in which to represent the subject that they teach.
• are proficient at creating an optimal classroom climate for learning.
• believe that all students can reach the success criteria.
• influence surface and deep student outcomes.
• work collaboratively with other teachers to achieve visible learning.
• develops strong relationships.
  • display student work
  • shares class achievements
  • speaks to the accomplishments of all students
  • is sincere in their pride of student work
  • looks for opportunities for students to be proud of themselves and of other students or groups of students
  • develops parental pride in student accomplishments
• knows his or her content and how to teach it.
• evaluates his or her impact.
• intervene in specific, meaningful, and calculated ways to increase students' learning trajectories.
• establishes high levels of trust with students
• Identifies and communicates challenging success criteria in checklists and rubrics.
• Pre-assesses to determine what students already know and can do.
• Checks for understanding and achievement of learning intentions.
• Engages students in self-assessment of their work, what they learn, and how they learn.
• Uses existing products or samples as models for student products.
• Uses assessments aligned with objectives/learning intentions/standards and instructional processes.
• Provides choices in assessment products.
• Engages students in giving specific feedback to peers and to the teacher.
• Involves students in setting learning goals.

Jordan Rogers:

If you've ever been in Jordan's Spanish Class, you'll know that he starts each day with a sort of ritualistic conversation with his students in Spanish. He does an excellent job at creating an environment in which errors are welcomed as a learning opportunity. It seems that he involves probably 70% of the class each day and different people each day. He also gives immediate feedback. When he asks a question, the student might reply and Jordan will repeat their response subtly correcting errors. Great example of "Visible Learning".

Jesse Roberts:

Jesse does a lot of things that are inline with Hattie's research. First and foremost, he is an expert in his content area and presents it to his students in a way this is effective in achieving student learning. He puts a great deal of effort and time into improving his skill and content knowledge. The best part, is he actually implements it in his classroom AND shares his knowledge with his department. Jesse uses outcomes through canvas and connects his assessments to desired outcomes. He utilizes rubrics to help students understand expectations and how their understanding and skill mastery match up with the expectations.