As teachers engage in
collaboration during professional development around these questions, many opportunities will emerge for administrators to formatively assess teacher understanding of how to promote the rigorous thinking and learning outlined within the CCSS.
Not exact matches
In fact, given the diversity of research interests and
collaborations, we find that the fellows themselves provide the basis for one of the richest sources of
professional development during the weekly Fellows» Research Meetings.
His support helped me
during my
professional development, and I truly hope our
collaboration will last for ever.
If
collaboration is overlooked, and
professional development and training become positioned within a prescriptive ethos of regulation, educators across the nation risk working within a «check - box» mentality that will reduce teacher and principal
development to forms of technocratic training that were rejected
during the Dawkins era (1988).
Over the course of this grant, FOI: (1) is producing
professional development materials to help staff representing multiple state agencies better understand the basic science of child
development generally and the promotion of executive function and self - regulation skills more specifically; (2) is supporting the creation of small learning communities, building on existing relationships at the site and policy level and connecting to other learning communities across North America; (3) is supporting the Washington cross-agency working group to sustain its current gains and momentum
during the upcoming executive branch transition in January and to share lessons learned with the broader national FOI community of states and Canadian provinces; and (4) is beginning conversations with stakeholders at the community level to explore mutual interests and is beginning to chart a path toward enhanced
collaboration within the state.
Research shows that current models of
professional development calls for
collaboration, active engagement, and collective culture - building
during such a transition.
To facilitate the achievement of our program goals, we have limited class size to 20 students, and provide our teachers opportunities for weekly planning and
collaboration, in addition to classes in the following areas
during designated
professional development sessions: International Primary Curriculum (IPC) and International Middle Years Curriculum (IMYC); Student assessments and interventions based on Dr. Stanley Greenspan's developmental model of education; Arts integration; and Common Core English Language Arts and Mathematics standards - based instruction.
Professional development discussion on
collaboration and debate on contemporary practice will take place
during the preview week of the Venice Biennale and at Aspex in Portsmouth to include brief public presentations of work.