TNedchat is a way for educators in Tennessee to share thoughts, resources, and information. The weekly chat is moderated by Jessica Warner (@jessawarner) and Samantha Bates (@sjsbates).
A1: Teacher empowerment—serving as an impetus or resource for teachers to take their own initiative and drive their own learning and choices to application thereof #tnedchat
A1 Teachers are involved more in making decisions that benefit their growth, have autonomy in designing lessons, taking some risks and support available while doing so, #tnedchat
A1. Teachers feel supported and safe in trying...... revising..... trying some more..... failing and enjoying the process of achieving something! #TnEdChat
A2 listen to your teachers. Also allow teachers to try new ideas and fail as long as they can say why it didn’t work. What works for students works for teachers #2PencilChat
A2 listen to your teachers. Also allow teachers to try new ideas and fail as long as they can say why it didn’t work. What works for students works for teachers #tnedchat
A2 By being receptive to Ts ideas and also by informing Ts about opps they become aware of, having Ts share their knowledge with colleagues, support Ts as they try new things #tnedchat
A2 I believe in empowerment and I think it critical to first define organizational goals, desired outcomes, global expectations "what can I do w/out creating a problem?" Define limits, all else is fair game. #tnedchat
A2: Get to know a teacher’s goals, respective strengths, and struggles. Support teachers in approaching the first with clarity, accentuating the second with confidence, and overcoming or persevering through the last with a plan and endurance. #tnedchat
A3: districts can empower Ts by NOT micromanaging or focusing on weaknesses. Allow Ts choice, voice, and permission to take risks and fail forward. #tnedchat
A3: Districts also empower teachers with clarity of protocols, procedures and a cohesive academic vision. It's also important to stick with the plan! #tnedchat
A3: Provide access to the RIGHT resources at the RIGHT time for the RIGHT purpose, either directly or indirectly. Caveat: what’s right isn’t always obvious at the outset. Be ready to act when what’s RIGHT becomes apparent, and be ready to change when RIGHT changes. #tnedchat
A3 work toward providing resources the Ts need, highlight the work of Ts and encourage/provide time for Ts to collab.. focus on personal interests specific to the needs of their classroom #tnedchat
Q4: Often empowerment looks like good educators moving out of the classroom and into admin roles. How can adjust what empowerment looks like in the educational realm? #TnEdChat
A4: Create an academic leadership team. Traditional leadership teams tend to get mired in housekeeping affairs. Create an academic vision and develop a strategy for executing it! #tnedchat
A4 Ts are leaders and through collab leadership, can be involved in the decisions, there are many types of leaders, and title does not = leader either. #tnedchat
A4: Make teachers a more important and influential part of decision making, let us see we can make change from the classroom and maybe we wont feel like we HAVE to leave to make things better for the rest #tnedchat
A4 tell teachers that what they are doing that day is awesome and innovative. So many teachers don’t think they give their students awesome experiences #tnedchat
A4: we can adjust the view of empowerment by establishing T leadership opportunities within the school and beyond, paying T leaders more so they don't leave the classroom, getting T input how to empower them #tnedchat
Agree...why would any leader expect an artist to paint by the number and color within the lines when the can effectively produce a masterpiece w/out the model? #tnEdChat
