What is Your Greatness?

New teacher technology training is one of my favorite professional development days I have the privilege of facilitating with my colleagues, Jenny and Jeanette.   New teachers bring joy, enthusiasm, passion, energy and a zest for our profession. 

Today at our new teacher training, we took the time to reflect on our greatness as educators. What do we bring each day to school and share with our students and colleagues?  What is that greatness? How does our greatness make a difference?  

Each new teacher reflected privately and then wrote his/her greatness on a clothespin decorated with Washi tape.  Then each person shared his/her greatness out loud with the group. "Patience, energy, creative, devoted,"  the new teachers said.   

As each new teacher shared their greatness with the group, they clipped their clothespin to our wire wreath.  One by one, the clothes pins were added and soon their pins developed into this stunning reminder of greatness.  Alone we are amazing and as we pool our greatness together, it develops into something unimaginable.  

The wreath will now hang proudly in our office/classroom as a reminder of all the greatness we added to our district this year when we hired our new teachers.  Our new teachers are an amazing group and their greatness is making a difference every day for our students in Bellevue Public Schools.    

Greatness wreath created at New Teacher Training, November 2014.

What is your greatness?  How does your greatness make a difference? Feel free to leave a comment.

Written by Ann Feldmann
@annfeldmann1

References:  Idea modified from a Thankful Wreath featured in the November 2014 issue of  Momaha Magazine