Thursday, December 14, 2017

It's not all bad

For the last two days I had the opportunity to deliver professional development to all my teachers during one of their planning blocks. I started getting negative feedback before the training even started about how long it was going to be and when it was being offered. The negative feedback continued both during and after the PD sessions were done.

I honestly want to know what people think and want to work to improve what I am presenting.  At the same time it can be hard to hear some times.  Especially when it comes to something like when to offer the PD, there is never a perfect time.

As I was sharing some of my reflection and frustrations with one of my Assistant Principals I was reminded that not all of the feedback was bad.  In fact more people had positive things to say than the number of negative ones.  It can be so easy to let the negative drowned out the positive.  Next time you started to dwell on the negative feedback try to remember some of the positive as well.  For that matter give some positive feedback to others as well. It often doesn't come as frequently as it should.