Using Volume 5: Literacy as a guide, teachers learn how to be intentional as they teach important language and literacy skills and incorporate language rich, meaningful experiences
into everyday classroom practices.
Their job is to build and strengthen networks of schools and help them access decent education research and implement it
in everyday classroom practice.
The book, published by Harvard Education Press, focuses on the ways education policies collide
with everyday classroom practices and how thoughtful, solutions - oriented, and results - driven teachers are reframing debates in education today.
Learning from the Experts offers an intimate look at the ways education policies collide
with everyday classroom practices and illustrates how thoughtful, solutions - oriented and results - driven teachers are reframing debates in education today.
To support this aim, members of the NRICH team work in a wide range of capacities, including providing professional development for teachers wishing to embed rich mathematical tasks
into everyday classroom practice.
Because they enable feedback loops between theory and
everyday classroom practice and are supported by a network of like - minded peers, these models have been found to be much more effective than the traditional model of courses, workshops, conferences and seminars.
But the journey from academic research to
everyday classroom practice is fraught with challenges: teachers don't have time to keep up with current trends and thought leaders, schools can't afford subscriptions to journals, and academic articles are often written in impenetrable language.
Teacher research stems from teachers» own questions about and reflections on
their everyday classroom practice.