Back at work - back at promoting TROPIC to Teachers both new and veteran. I offered TROPIC to people in our Faculty meeting today - over 60 people present. One thing that was said bothered me - it was said that TROPIC would tell Teachers only what they were doing RIGHT. They may need 'a peer' to tell them the 'hard' stuff about what they were doing WRONG. My immediate response was to say I hoped all Teachers saw TROPIC observers as their peers who were not coming in to tell them what they were doing wrong, but to have a professional conversation between 'equals'. I don't see TROPIC as a way for an 'expert' to tell an experienced or even beginning Teacher what they are doing 'wrong'. It is not a mentoring system. It is a system of peer observation and reporting on what is seen in a classroom. It's a tool Teachers can use for self-reflection. It's also a way to access ideas on different ways of achieving behavioural results in classrooms.
Maybe this 'telling people what they are doing wrong'idea explains why not many Teachers access TROPIC?
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