Keeping the Momentum

⁤Maintaining momentum is important for educators to create a strong learning environment. ⁤⁤When an educator starts to feel comfortable and aren't trying to better their skills, they start to lose their momentum. ⁤⁤Maintaining momentum is important since it will help promote student engagement and in return create larger student achievement. ⁤⁤Momentum in education involves the ongoing improvement that continues to push the learning process forward. ⁤

A valuable approach that will help maintain momentum is appreciative inquiry. Appreciative inquiry is a valuable approach to sustaining learning and change in communities and networks (Connected Educator, Chapter 7). Appreciative inquiry is the belief that educators will improve their knowledge when they are constantly asking questions and focused on learning more about it. If an educator is upset about their problems and not actively trying to fix them, there will be no improvement. Instead, educators should inquire into these issues and figure out what is and isn't working well in the situation. After this, educators should be able to recognize their strengths which will help them improve their teaching abilities.

The model to the right shows the model individuals should follow when it comes to appreciative inquiry. The cycle highlights the positive, generative perspective of appreciative inquiry. The stages are as follows...
  1. Discover: People share stories with one another that illustrate when they feel the group or community is at its best.
  2. Dream: The entire community envisions the future as if the high points members found in discover are not extraordinary but everyday occurrences.
  3. Design: The community creates a design for the organization based on the dream stage.
  4. Destiny: The community implements the changes. 
*The stages above are directly from the Connected Educator Book, Chapter 7*

By following the stages, I will be able to expand my knowledge as a future educator and be able to perform to the best of my abilities. Sustaining a positive community is challenging, but the above model makes it possible and I will keep it in mind throughout the years. The model not only focuses on individual growth but also collaboration which in the end will help foster growth for everyone involved.

If you are not going to be an educator, how will you use this method to continue to gain momentum?


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