Philosophical Beliefs

Wayne Carter's Philosophical Beliefs

"All Students Can Have Success"

Humility - is the attitude behind the action of love. Humility is seen other people as more important than one self. Showing love and kindness means putting that attitude in action.

According to USA Today, businesses hire attitudes because they can teach an employee what they need to know.

Essentially you can't teach positive attitudes such as:

Listening

Caring

Smiling

Saying Thank You

I have grown up in a culture where endless possibilities offer minimal effort.

~Wayne Carter

Nine Instructional Strategies

1 Identifying Similarities and Differences

2. Summarizing and Note Taking

3. Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition

4. Homework and Practice

5. Nonlinguistic Representations

6.Cooperative Learning

7.Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback

8.Generating and testing hypotheses

9. Cues, questions, and advance organizers

~Robert J. Marzano

"Good is the enemy of great"

"Much of the answer to the question of "good to great" lies in the discipline to do whatever it takes to become the best within carefully selected arenas and then to seek continual improvement. It's really that simple. And, it's really just that difficult. ~Jim Collins.

Eleven Ways to Improve Your School:

Improve the people you have or get better people.
People, not programs are important. People are the problems and people are the solutions.
The most valuable gift principles can give teachers and teachers can give students - confidence
Great teachers determine what the kids are going to do next. In a poor teachers class, the kids determine what the teacher is going to do next.
Everyday we treat every student with dignity and respect. Act like it even if we don't mean it!! They wont know the difference.
Arguing with a student is like mud wrestling with a pig - you both get muddy, but only the pig likes it!! (now this is a classic)
you don't govern any ones life with rules, you govern with expectations. Great teachers don't have rules, they have expectations.
Great teachers never take it out on their students. Poor teachers stay up late to go to school in a bad mood.
All decisions should be based on our best people/students. "Thank you for getting quiet. Thank you for being on time. Thank you for being prepared." These are much better than giving attention to those who do not do as expected.
Poor teachers want revenge - they want kids leaving the office mad. Great teachers want prevention - They want kids leaving the office changed.
When you hire a new - teacher our goal is for school to become more like our new teacher, not for them to become more like your school - or you've hired the wrong person ~Todd Whitaker.

Educational improvement is not an annual event, but is rather one on going process that drives a daily work of people throughout the organization. Finally, the effectiveness of the organization is assessed on the basis of results, rather than intentions or activities...~Richard DuFour

"A teachers' job is not to teach kids. A teacher's job is to create meaningful, engaging work whereby kids learn the things we want them to learn." ~Phil Schechty