In a special video, members
of the Teacher team reflect on their own school days and the educators that inspired them.
Not exact matches
«Action» is part
of the
Teacher strapline so we're always interested in hearing how you're using content, individually, in your staff
teams, and in whole school PD, to
reflect on and improve your own skills and practices.
Reflecting on the past year, the
team at
Teacher have been incredibly lucky to speak with some
of the most inspiring and innovative people working in education.
For execution to have any chance
of working it's vital that school leadership roles (from leadership
team, middle leaders and classroom
teachers) have designated responsibilities for the agenda and that reimagined school and middle leadership
team meeting and reporting processes
reflect, account and report on the improvement agenda and that the meeting processes be resourced with time and support to do it.
However, while I was clearing my credential, working with mentor
teachers to
reflect on my practice, and finding out how real students differed from theoretical ones, I also spent long hours after school with the speech and debate
team reading philosophy and theory and talking about innovative alternatives for national defense, natural resource allocation, and,
of course, education.
Suggested individual or study
team activity: Share the list
of «troubling realities» presented on pages 3 — 4 with a fellow
teacher, principal, superintendent, or school board member and ask for feedback: (a) Does this list
reflect reality as they see it?
Using this information, coaches and
teacher leaders worked in
teams of three or four to design professional development experiences that
reflected the real needs
of the classroom
teachers.
In the final phase, an Evidence Summit allows
teacher teams to review results,
reflect upon their learning, and celebrate accomplishments from the first year - long cycle
of data - driven decision making.
Individual
teachers can call on their
team colleagues to help them
reflect on areas
of concern.
Recruitment and retention
of teachers who
reflect the diversity
of the students they serve is particularly crucial, she said — and particularly challenging without programs such as
TEAM.
The
team sought to share and understand their own experiences with racial inequity in education,
reflect on the perspectives
of students
of color who experience a lack
of diversity within their
teacher community, and research a range
of factors that contribute to the gap, from
teacher recruitment through school climate.
This year, Metro became a Community
of Practice Host School in TSCCI, in which their successful
teacher team serves as a learning resource for a group
of educators from other transfer schools to
reflect on and improve their own practices.
Stomachs may turn as
teachers consider the potential outcomes and
reflect on individual contribution to the overall success
of the
team: How did my students perform?
Teachers are grouped in collaborative instructional
teams that participate in several instructional rounds
of observing, sharing, and
reflecting on their practice.
The inter-disciplinary
teams of teachers reflected on the past year and began developing projects for their students for the upcoming year.
The Vehicle: The PLC —
Teams of teachers who develop, implement,
reflect on, and continuously revise a standards - based curriculum
However, with so much talent and diversity, getting everyone to value the collective mission over individual progress can sometimes seem challenging, given the fact that traditionally our system is set up for
teachers to plan, execute and
reflect on their practices independently instead
of as a
team.
Professional learning communities -
Teachers collaborate regularly via grade level and content
teams,
reflecting on student data, honing their content expertise and building their toolkit
of instructional practices.
This program facilitates monthly meetings between
teams of new
teachers to share and
reflect on their experiences and the challenges they face in the classroom.