Courage To Teach Seasonal Retreat Series
During the first year of teaching, mentor / mentee pairs will participate in a Courage To Teach (CTT) seasonal, four retreat series. There will be three CTT circles in-process, concurrently, with approximately twenty participants per circle per year for a project-wide total of sixty. Gatherings will be scheduled in the fall, winter, spring and summer of the teachers’ first year of teaching. Sharla Steever and Dr. Scott Simpson will co-facilitate all WoLakota Project CTT circles.
Angelina Phebus: New Teacher from McLaughlin Elementary School
Courage to Teach Circles foster
- Professional Teaching Skills – listening, hospitable learning environments, “third thing” pedagogy, questioning, and reflective practices
- Professional Teaching Dispositions and Attitudes – collegiality, relational trust capacity, better care-taking and care-giving, improved relationships, vocational and personal clarity of purpose, confidence and courage, improved leadership, clarity and capacity
- Professional and Personal Growth – identification of gifts and abilities in self and students, creating caring, reciprocal relationships with students and colleagues, clarification of personal beliefs about education, commitment toward health and vitality
- Personal and Professional Life Integration – the role of self-identity in vocational practice
- Personal and Professional Renewal and Transformation – integrating renewal experiences as part of on-going professional development (Intrator & Scribner, 2000)
To find out more about Courage to Teach visit: http://www.couragerenewal.org/