As a Personalized Learner:
Your inner educator is eager to hone your craft. You want to help your stakeholders--students and colleagues--be the best they can be and achieve at the highest level. To accomplish this goal, you know you must constantly be evolving and improving. Your drive to be the absolute best version of yourself is strong. But how can you feed the personalized learner inside you, when you are inundated with overwhelming and often-unnecessary professional development offerings from your district's leaders?
They're giving you math, and you teach history. They're preaching test preparation and worksheets, and you want PBL and inquiry. They want traditional grades, and you want feedback literacy. Let's be honest, school-driven PD rarely fits the needs of all educators. You know what you need and, in most cases, you will be the best person to fulfill those needs.
Based on how you answered the “What type of educator are you?” questions, your inner educator wants to grow in specific, personalized ways, so you can better serve students, parents, and colleagues. You want to develop a unique, progressive, innovative culture, and you're hungry for better ideas and strategies. You don't want to just sit back and receive PD; you want to drive your own learning, but you wonder if this is even possible.
You May Be Noticing:
Recent times have been challenging. Your district leaders may have provided little to none of the professional learning opportunities that you need. A pandemic, racial injustice, and political unrest have added gigantic hurdles to a profession that was already faced with many issues. For most educators, the overarching attitude around you has been, "Just do what you can to survive."
You May Be Feeling Like:
- No matter how you try, you can’t seem to figure out how to best meet the needs of your students and colleagues.
- You have very little time to improve your craft.
- Being an educator today is overwhelming and you want to improve; you're not sure you have the time, though, to pursue even
Times 10 Is Here to Help!
Instant Personalized Learner strategy: "Use the Educator Canvas" with Michelle Blanchet and Darcy Bakkegard
1. DOWNLOAD YOUR CANVAS BELOW.
2. Watch this quick tutorial on how to use the Educator Canvas.
Main Topics from this Video:
☑️ Coach yourself through adversity, using the powerful, practical Educator Canvas.
☑️ Co-authors of The Startup Teacher Playbook demonstrate how to use the Canvas.
☑️ They share examples of others like you, using the Canvas to personalize their own learning and improve their practice.
👋 Hi. I'm Mark Barnes.
My school administrators were always working on another longterm plan. Even after 23 years as a classroom teacher, committee chairman, and teacher mentor, I generally felt like we never got anything done. Educators don’t need another 5- or 10-year plan. You need practical strategies from experienced teachers and leaders, who have failed more times than they can count and have turned those failures into the kinds of success that help our children flourish. I’m one of those educators.
Now, as founder of Times 10 Publications, I work with dozens of brilliant educators, with hundreds of years of combined experience, teaching and leading all grades and subjects, while working with students from diverse backgrounds and with varying abilities. You’ve got problems that need right-now solutions. I want to bring you the vast knowledge and experience of our entire team at Times 10, so you can solve every problem that comes your way. I’m here to help, because we’re in this together.
