I am currently one third of the way through an interview for a Deputy Head Teacher position at a different school. Tomorrow is a full day and I am hoping to have the opportunity to show the value my network brings to my job.
I do not have any specific task you can help me with or comment on because the ones I know about do not lend themselves. However you can still help by responding in a more general way. Here is the question(s):
How has my work both online and face to face made an impact on you or your classes? Which projects or ideas of mine have inspired you to go on and do wonderful things in schools?
It will be easiest for me and for the panel that I show to Tweet your answers to me. I might just print the accumulated answers and give them out. A couple of things to remember when replying by Twitter:
- I am @tombarrett
- Please include the hashtag #tomsinterview anywhere in the post and I will pick it up. You can even write it without the @tombarrett bit, so long as you include the hashtag.
- If you are not on Twitter or would like to say more than 140 characters please drop a comment on this post and I will of course include those too.
- I will be heading off to the school at about 9.30am GMT so will be grabbing everything just before then.
Thankyou to everyone who has shown me such generous support so far. If you feel you can help contribute to my interview tomorrow I would be so grateful to hear your thoughts on those prompts.
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Tom, I am not a frequent contributor to twitter, but I do follow you and you have been an inspiration and a valuable resource to me. I am sorry I did not weigh in when you needed the support, but I wanted to offer my congratulations to you and my personal thanks for your tweets. Keep up the great work. You obviously have many dedicated followers.
Tom, I am not a frequent contributor to twitter, but I do follow you and you have been an inspiration and a valuable resource to me. I am sorry I did not weigh in when you needed the support, but I wanted to offer my congratulations to you and my personal thanks for your tweets. Keep up the great work. You obviously have many dedicated followers.
Tom's work does not inspire me in the classroom – I no longer teach 🙂 but he does keep me up to date with what really inspired classroom teachers are doing with ICT in the classroom and that is amazing! I am able to pass on what he is doing to other teachers through my job so he inspires loads of teachers through me – but indirectly!
Tom,
I am SO excited for you – can't imagine anyone who could be more qualified for a head teacher's position. Your creativity in integrating technology into your classroom and your passion for your students come across so pristine and clear in every tweet. Best wishes ..
As for me, how have you helped me. Your progressive compilations of ## ways to integrate XYZ into your classroom have inspired me in ways to use various programs in my class [namely Wordle] but you were gracious enough to permit me to use the ideas in my preso at TFLTA. In this way you have inspired language teachers across the state of TN. This is a very selfless gesture that has bettered the learning experiences of students around the globe.
Cheers!
Even though Tom's ideas are highly innovative, even though the accounts of how he adapts and adopts them in his classroom make it easy for colleagues to follow his lead, even though he relates his stories “warts and all”, even though Tom is willing to engage in authentic conversations with the novice as well as the most experienced practitioner, even though Tom has integrity that most other teachers would “die for”, even though he is prolific in sharing a widely as he can,(including Australia and beyond), the best thing about Tom is that he is above all “the guide on the side” eminently suited to any leadership position he should apply for.
Tom constantly feeds useful and interesting ideas for teachers to consider. I trust the material that he shares and have found his advice to be clear, simple to understand and very empowering to me. His openness and commitment to share would I feel make him an excellent leader. His breadth of knowledge and ability to make the confusing clear and the daunting manageable will make him an asset to any school community.
Although twitter is a great resource, I need more than 140 characters to explain @tbarrett's value to my PLN. Not only does Tom organize outstanding crowd-sourced instructional materials, he also helps create them by providing helpful feedback to those that contribute. I have contributed to some of Tom's materials in the past, and I read both his blog and his tweets. He has insight and vision indicative of a successful leader. And, by the way, I teach in a little town in the rural outskirts of Pennsylvania. Having access to people like Tom via online networks has really helped me learn in ways that my geography has not allowed in the past.
Tom – whenever I think of inspirational ICT ideas at KS2 I think of you. This year part of my own role is to assist our feeder primaries in developing ICT and I've got some Y5 coming in after Christmas to do some “fun stuff” What fun stuff might that be? Your fun stuff! I am going to go through your Google Earth and your mapping work; tried and tested by you so that the likes of me can be sure it will be a success! Thankyou so much for everything you share. Mary
As with the other commenters, 140 characters isn't really enough to say what a positive presence you are in my CPD, Tom. I've learned a whole lot from the way that you approach teaching and learning experiences. In my work as Director of E-Learning I've been inspired by the way that you develop and enable others through constant encouragement.
You really deserve this job, Tom – if they deserve you, that is! 🙂
Tom, you are an inspiration. Your passion for teaching and enhancing the learning of not only your pupils, and staff at school but myself and the many hundreds more educators that make up your learning network are testament to the drive you possess to help others achieve their potentials.
You make a difference and long may it continue.
Although twitter is wonderful 140 chars would not do justice to the effect you have made on classrooms and teachers around the world. Ideas that inspire, projects to join in both in the class and helping others share ideas. Many of the best practical and detailed posts about using technology in primary classrooms anywhere on the web. Practical and theoretical details in your posts would allow anyone to improve their classroom practise whether they were technophiles or technophobes. Unlike many other edubloggers your posts are always rooted in the classroom and the result of blue sky thinking AND practise.
Commenting here as my tweets are protected and don't want them to get lost.
Your 'Interesting Ideas' Google Docs have inspired me to start a couple of my own (specifically the 'techy tips' presentation which has also led to a monthly newsletter for all of my staff). I've used loads of your ideas with students at KS3, KS4 and KS5 including Wordle, Etherpad, Voicethread, Google Docs as a source of collaboration. You're always doing brilliant stuff, *sharing* brilliant stuff and learning brilliant stuff.
In fact, I just wish I could *be* Tom Barrett.
(Too much?)