IG:@iamdrshelli Hello educators!!! Now that you have settled into the 2024 - 2025, school year, I want to share a few nuggets that may help you enhance your teaching experience and lend to student outcomes.
N - New year, clean slate. Move forward using previous knowledge to strengthen your teaching plan. Every experience is a win because they provide you with information to use for your next steps.
U—Use the strengths of others, that is, parents, family units, caregivers, and community stakeholders, to enrich your students' learning experiences.
G - Get to know your students beyond the subject matter. Find out what they are interested in beyond the classroom.
G - Gain insight about your students' strengths and areas of passion and embed this information in lessons as frequently as possible so that they know that you see THEM.
E - Enter into the classroom knowing that you are the expert and that you have prepared for this and that you’ve got this!
T - Take time out for yourself. Make sure you enjoy life. You have a passion for teaching, and you have life outside of teaching. Travel, rest, try new things, spend time with family, refuel so that you can pour into your students.
S - Stay encouraged. Some days will be better than others, but you have a hand in creating the blueprint of our future. Your impact is priceless.
Michelle Frazier Trotman Scott, Ph.D., affectionately known as Dr. Shelli and Dr. FTS, is the Director of Graduate Affairs and Professor of Special Education at the University of West Georgia. several topics including effective leadership, mentoring, time management, productivity, and topics pertaining to diversity, equity, inclusion, acceptance, and belonging. Her research interests include the achievement gap, special and gifted education disproportionalities, dual exceptionalities, cultural responsiveness, and family involvement. Dr. Shelli facilitates professional learning workshops and dialogs regarding implicit bias, culturally responsive leadership, leadership development, time management, productivity, implicit bias, micro and macro-aggression, educational practices, and reform. She has written and co-authored several articles and chapters, has made numerous presentations at national and international professional conferences, and has co-edited multiple books. She is a current Board of Directors member of the National Association for Gifted Children, a member of the editorial board for multiple journals, and has served in leadership roles in multiple professional organizations. She is married and has three daughters.
N - New year, clean slate. Move forward using previous knowledge to strengthen your teaching plan. Every experience is a win because they provide you with information to use for your next steps.
U—Use the strengths of others, that is, parents, family units, caregivers, and community stakeholders, to enrich your students' learning experiences.
G - Get to know your students beyond the subject matter. Find out what they are interested in beyond the classroom.
G - Gain insight about your students' strengths and areas of passion and embed this information in lessons as frequently as possible so that they know that you see THEM.
E - Enter into the classroom knowing that you are the expert and that you have prepared for this and that you’ve got this!
T - Take time out for yourself. Make sure you enjoy life. You have a passion for teaching, and you have life outside of teaching. Travel, rest, try new things, spend time with family, refuel so that you can pour into your students.
S - Stay encouraged. Some days will be better than others, but you have a hand in creating the blueprint of our future. Your impact is priceless.
Michelle Frazier Trotman Scott, Ph.D., affectionately known as Dr. Shelli and Dr. FTS, is the Director of Graduate Affairs and Professor of Special Education at the University of West Georgia. several topics including effective leadership, mentoring, time management, productivity, and topics pertaining to diversity, equity, inclusion, acceptance, and belonging. Her research interests include the achievement gap, special and gifted education disproportionalities, dual exceptionalities, cultural responsiveness, and family involvement. Dr. Shelli facilitates professional learning workshops and dialogs regarding implicit bias, culturally responsive leadership, leadership development, time management, productivity, implicit bias, micro and macro-aggression, educational practices, and reform. She has written and co-authored several articles and chapters, has made numerous presentations at national and international professional conferences, and has co-edited multiple books. She is a current Board of Directors member of the National Association for Gifted Children, a member of the editorial board for multiple journals, and has served in leadership roles in multiple professional organizations. She is married and has three daughters.