Failure Is Mandatory: Creating A Culture Of Innovation - Edudemic - 0 views
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Administrators can encourage these skunkworks by providing educators with planning time so that they can meet to discuss technology integrations, lessons, activities, and strategies, or by designating individual time to experiment with and share new technologies and their incorporation. Administrators can provide professional development, whether through external consultants who provide “lessons-learned” or strategies developed at other schools, or by encouraging teachers to attend conferences or edCamps as well as other types of professional learning environments – such as online webinars, seminars, and chats.
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A quick but public acknowledgement of a teacher’s innovation often spurs increased experimentation and encourage others to develop innovative approaches to pedagogy and instructional practices. The simple, proverbial pat-on-the-back or verbal recommendation can often have immeasurable results.
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Administrators can further cultivate a culture of innovation by providing public recognition as well as teaching opportunities for innovators. They can create avenues for progressive, innovative teachers to present in front of the faculty or in department meetings. Teachers who are using technology in thoughtful, purposeful ways to meet learning objectives should be encouraged to publish news of their innovative pedagogies and instructional practices, whether through class blogs, in emails to the faculty, or in news to parents and other stakeholders. These successful teachers become ambassadors – encouraging their colleagues to take risks, try new tools or techniques — and share both their successes and their failures.
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