Teacher Development

Education professionals know that when students receive quality teaching, it directly affects their achievements. But what can you do to dramatically improve the quality of teaching in your classrooms? Develop the talents teachers naturally possess.

The first step is discovering what teachers are naturally good at. Building on these talents -- the ways in which they naturally think, feel, and behave -- can help teachers increase their own performance in the classroom, as well as that of their students.

Gallup's Education Practice offers several opportunities for discovering teachers' strengths, as well as helping them -- and their supervisors -- learn to leverage them to reach their students in bigger, better ways.

• Teach With Your Strengths lets readers into the minds of great teachers, many of whom reveal their unorthodox -- and sure-to-be-controversial -- approaches. It also reveals key insights gleaned from Gallup's 40 years of research into great teaching. Included is a Clifton StrengthsFinder access code, giving educators access to the online Clifton StrengthsFinder talent assessment -- and their top five themes of talent.
  
  
• The Teach With Your Strengths Action Pack allows you to approach staff development with new eyes. Developing the innate talents of your teachers provides lifelong learning that can improve the outcomes that matter, such as teacher retention, student achievement, and improved school culture. When educators discover and leverage their talents in the classroom, the whole school benefits.
  
  The Teach With Your Strengths Action Pack includes everything a school needs to start their journey. Complete with a DVD learning series, participant guides, codes for strengths discovery, curriculum and more, the Action Pack illuminates the concept of strengths, enabling you to foster team-centered personal and professional development. Gallup advisors will lead you in making strengths real for your school and are available every step of the way.
  
  
• Gallup's #1 New York Times bestseller How Full Is Your Bucket? uses a simple metaphor about a dipper and a bucket and decades of research to show how even the briefest interactions affect your relationships, productivity, health, and longevity. In the short time since the book's release, educators and administrators have already discovered that creating a positive environment can have a powerful effect on their school culture -- and on learning outcomes. The Educator's Edition of How Full Is Your Bucket? includes an activity packet for teachers to use in classrooms and development leaders to use with staff.
  
  
• How Full Is Your Bucket? Workshops: Gallup consultants can present a one-day workshop to train principals on how to help teachers use bucket-filling ideas to foster a positive work and learning environment. Or Gallup speakers can address a group of principals or teachers about the How Full Is Your Bucket? message. Gallup speakers can present an inspiring, motivating talk to a large group as part of a development day or can provide a half-day seminar that includes workshop activities as well as the keynote address.
  
  
• Exploring My Strengths offers participants in-depth learning about their unique talents. This one-day seminar is ideal for new or experienced teachers, and is also great for equipping mentors with a greater understanding of themselves and their mentees.

For more information about teacher development, contact the Education Practice at 800.288.8592.