Here's the facts.
The quality of the teacher has a major impact on student learning. According to the data compiled by Dr. Robert Marzano and his research team, a bad teacher can negatively effect a student for three years of learning.
In other words, if a student has one bad teacher, it will take three years to catch up to other students in your school that didn't have that same bad teacher.
Therefore it is your ethical obligation as principal and school leader to help teachers who are struggling in their classrooms.
But you already knew that.
The problem that most principals face is - how? How do you help teachers who are struggling so badly that they can't make any progress with most of their students?
If you want to know the solution, this is path one on the learning process. If you want to go deeper, then you should consider following Path Two, which is signing up for the Principal's Academy.
What is the Principal's Academy?
The Principal's Academy is a principal mentorship program designed to help principals and school leaders run the best schools in the world. That means, helping principals understand the three foundations of learning:
1. 21st Century Curriculum
2. 21st Century Teachers
3. 21st Century Leadership
When you combine all three foundations together - you build your very own 21st century learning environment.
If you want to learn more, then follow the link below to sign up for the Principal's Academy and join hundreds of other principals and school leaders from around the country who know that principal mentorship is the key to success.
Why Teachers Struggle?
If you want to help a teacher in the classroom, you first need to know why they are struggling?
So here are the top 4 reasons why teachers struggle?
1. Issues with Lesson Planning
2. Trouble with Teaching Best Practices
3. Unsure how to properly assess student learning
4. A lack of classroom management techniques
Therefore Step One in helping the teacher is identifying which one of these four key areas they struggle with the most.
What's Next?
After you identify which area they struggle with the most - then its time to provide them with hands-on and practical professional development training in that specific area.
But here's where most principals and schools run into a problem.
You don't have a professional development workshop tailored to your teacher's needs, instead you have a schedule of random presenters that come in and talk about everything, but what your teachers actually need.
Leaf Academy has a solution for this problem.
And if you want to learn more about this solution - you should join the Principal's Academy right now!
Before You Join -- Make Sure to Take the "Safe Classrooms" QUIZ
If your teachers are struggling in the classroom that probably also means they have a toxic school environment as well. That's why you should have your teachers take the Leaf Academy "Safe Classrooms Quiz."
This quiz will only take 2-minutes of their time, but provide you with the most important data you can collect.
Remember to tell your teachers to take a screenshot of their scores (and if a teacher gets a score of 8 or better that means their classroom is "safe and conducive" for learning. But if one of your teachers receives a score below 8, then you should probably sit down with your teacher and analyze the data together.)
After you take the quiz, go and sign up for the Principal's Academy program.