It's great to have you all back for our 3rd session, "Knowing Self As Teacher". Please use the following links to participate:

• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Assessment
• Cognitive Style Inventory: use this afterwards to confirm the results of the MBTI (scroll down after visiting)
• The 16 Types: click on the 4-letter abbreviations for detailed descriptions of each personality type. Or read this "type table" (scroll down).
• Are you an introvert? If so, find some relief here ("Caring for Your Introvert"), here ("Why Introverts Can Make The Best Leaders") and here ("Revenge of the Introvert")

Here are the links for our collaborative online discussion and creation:

• "What Makes a Great Teacher?" (original article from The Atlantic Monthly)
• VoiceThread: "The Four Faces of Good Teaching". You will need to register to join if you have never used this website before (just use your NTHS email as a login, and your normal password as your password)

Next Time: "Our Students"

We will have a panel discussion of New Trier students. Consider the "7 Tacit Lessons" of the traditional classroom and how our students may or may not internalize these in the 21st Century.

Here is a link to our agenda as well as some important links we'll be using in our session.

• Our Teachers (videos) + Questions to Consider
• Stand and Deliver (clip)

• Read Mike Schmoker's article online.
• Sign up for your focused formative observation.

Click here for your assignment for our November meeting.

 

Perhaps the text from this screenshot is difficult to make out. However, that's not really the point. What's remarkable about this blog excerpt is that it was created by one of our students from last year, who is currently a senior. What's even more striking about it is that the person commenting on the post is one of our students from a previous year, who didn't share a classroom with the author, and is currently a college student, a freshman at Iowa State!

Hopefully this will serve as an example of what Mr. O'Connor expressed during the first week of school: we as your teachers want to become "useless" in the best possible sense. Long after you leave our class, we hope you will be "continuing the conversation."