These posters were presented in June 2011 as part of St. Andrew's/The CTTL's Innovative Teaching and Learning Poster Session.
Why do it?
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Being given the freedom to fully explore and flesh out just a single idea turns out to be a very powerful, liberating experience.
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Subtly alters the way faculty members see themselves as professionals – helps master teachers see through their humility and reconcile with themselves that they are, in fact, master teachers.
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Inspires teachers to take risks and be creative in the pursuit of getting every child to think – it really illustrates ways where we meet our goal to challenge and support each individual learner.
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Create some good collaborations – particularly between disciplines and divisions.
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Inspires future work and collaborations.
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The event itself provides space and stimulation for great conversations about what is excellent teaching; this is an interesting idea in professional development which is less scripted but still powerful.
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Faculty get a snapshot of what is happening across the entire school; helps us know and respect each others work.
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The posters have an excellent second life highlighting things we are proud of on the walls of our school – give visitors a strong impression of what we do, how we do it, and why the St. Andrew’s learning experience is different.
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Presenters get identified as intellectual resources, which not only helps spread the wealth of knowledge, experience and talent in the faculty, but adds to job satisfaction.
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Increasing awareness of visual literacy and design.
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Forcing teachers to go through a process that we routinely set our students, and seeing how time and energy consuming it can be.