Sentences with phrase «of teacher learning»

She gained a wealth of practical experience with strategic formative assessment through the implementation of teacher learning communities.

A longitudinal investigation of teacher learning in technology integration.

If my observations are even somewhat accurate, why is our education system so slow in developing methodologies that are supportive of teachers learning and using technology with their students?

Content - focused technology inquiry groups: Cases of teacher learning and technology integration.

Our teacher scholar alumni network includes hundreds of educators and spans more than a decade of teacher learning.

These findings have implications for defining the present and future of teacher learning in a digital age.

Richardson and Placier's normative — re-educative approach appears to embrace both the knowledge - in - practice and the knowledge - of - practice conceptions of teacher learning detailed by Cochran - Smith and Lytle, though with a clear bias for the knowledge - of - practice approach, with its emphasis on teachers constructing knowledge through deliberate inquiry in response to a variety of experiences and information sources.

In our session tomorrow morning, we'll present our initial efforts and future plans to develop a series of mini-cases created from artifacts generated by members of the Teachers Learning Collaborative and, in Hawaii, the Kalama Teacher Education Program.

Grade - level chairs lead their colleagues through weekly shared planning sessions, and teams of teachers learn by observing each other in sessions modeled on medical - student rounds.

Along with colleague Vivian Troen, director of the education consultancy The Power of Teacher Learning, Boles developed a series of activities centered on the theme «Differences are GREAT!»

In the knowledge - for - practice tradition of teacher learning, teachers are provided — usually, though not necessarily, by being told — the knowledge they will need to be effective teachers by more knowledgeable others, usually university professors.

One small glimmer of hope... There is money in Florida's Race to the Top proposal allocated to implementation of lesson study (or similar kinds of teacher learning communities) in some schools.

Summary: This article underscores the importance of teachers learning more about students» cultures, providing six steps to help teachers understand these different cultures.

In sum, instructional mentoring is effective when it is consistent and based on an explicit vision of good teaching as well as an understanding of teacher learning (Feiman - Nemser, 2001).

Participants reflected alone and together about the Mills Teacher Scholars professional learning framework and how it connects to the current reality of teacher learning at their sites.

The bulk of teacher learning happens at our summer institutes and weekend workshops, where teachers are introduced to current plant research topics with societal relevance, from grass to sugars for ethanol, to algae for biodiesel, to land use sustainability.

«These programs can help young people see the future, but they are not an antidote to shortages,» says Moir of teacher learning academies.

More adventurous schools may be trying a form of Teacher Learning Community but which too frequently is hijacked by senior leaders in the school who require specific areas of school practice (developmental needs as perceived by them) to form the working agenda for the groups.

We will play a variety of teacher learning games, from BalderMath to MetaRubric, and then develop prototypes for new playful learning experiences that you can take back to PD sessions at your own school.

Having worked on GPE - funded professional development of teachers in Somalia I can say that the monitoring of teacher learning was clearly built into the project.

The whole system of teacher learning in Japan is highly collaborative and focused laser - like on studying how children learn and adapting teaching to that learning

Comment from Guest: What do you think of Teacher Learning Communities?

As the worldwide authority on education system change said at the EdSource symposium last month, collaborative culture is of utmost importance in the enhancement of teacher learning

Cochran - Smith and Lytle value the knowledge - of - practice conception of teacher learning because of their conviction that knowledge thus constructed is the only truly professional knowledge — the only knowledge that will sustain teachers through the exigencies of daily practice.

Other models of collaboration have an equally long and illustrious history (see Cochran - Smith & Lytle, in press, for a full treatment of teacher learning communities).

Anna Yates Elementary School is a TK - 8 school in their third year of partnership with MTS in building a school - wide community of teacher learning through teacher - led collaborative inquiry.

The value of combining PLCs and peer coaching was reinforced as I shared in both sessions the connectedness of teacher learning and student learning.

To build a true partnership between content teachers and ELL teachers, Silva and her team developed joint professional - development sessions to help both types of teachers learn new instructional techniques, as well as specific strategies on how to work together in the classroom.

At the time, MariAnne was a member of the Book Club Plus node of the Teachers Learning Collaborative where we focused on expanding Book Club to serve the needs of struggling readers.

In 2008 — 09, Colegio Inglés had a watershed year in terms of teachers learning to enhance one another's skills.

Dr. Waitoller is also interested in examining how these inequities are affected by the production of space in urban economies and the role of teacher learning and school / university partnerships in developing capacity for inclusive education.

Examine ways that leaders are currently creating the cultures they have and consider ways they might shift their own leadership of teacher learning.

A large scale study under review at the time of writing in the US suggests LS has a significant impact on pupil learning as a result of teacher learning.

To find out, Usable Knowledge turned to Senior Lecturer Katherine Boles and Vivian Troen, director of The Power of Teacher Learning — co-authors of The Power of Teacher Teams.

«I hope to change the lives of many Chicago students by building on the UChicago Charter School's strong culture of belief in students» capabilities, and tradition of teacher learning and accountability grounded in research and data,» said Island Childress.

While there are examples of this kind of teacher learning and leadership across Canada, it is not the norm.