Knowledge and Skills of Professional Teaching Project

Hi everyone,

Steven sent me this good article recently that we thought would be good to share. See you all this coming Tuesday for our next meeting!

James

Good Talk about Teaching article

Colleagues,

I apologize for this late posting… I’ll aim to have copies of this for us to look at during our afternoon meeting.

I.  Hope/Joy

TEACHER TO TEACHER

A. Teachers will frame and reframe conversations around teaching and learning with colleagues in terms of discovery and cultivating the joy in learning
1. Teachers know that effective teaching is often about [...]

Hello There,

I’m posting my draft at this stage because I keep going off track.  I’m trying to make sure my suggestions stick with collaboration.  I am finding a few issues.  Personally I have breadth, not depth.  I also find that collaboration crosses into examples for other drill down areas.  For example, in viewing Ellen’s post, [...]

Hi Everyone,

Here is a first try at the drill-down for responsibility. I’m sure there are things that can be combined. I’m also not sure of how specific to get with the examples…Thanks!

Principle/area: Responsibility

TEACHER TO TEACHER
A. Goal: Teachers will engage in professional dialogue with colleagues to ensure best practice.
1. Knowledge/Skills: Teachers know how to openly and [...]

Looks like we finally have a good weather weekend on our hands!

Just a reminder, for those of us with assignments from our last meeting, to post your drafts to the website before our meeting this coming April 6th. (I have to get on that myself!) I posted a guide of sorts in an [...]

EdWeekly published a brief found in Teacher Mag. that outlines a survey done by MET Life on the various responses by principals, teachers, and students regarding school culture discussing teacher collaboration and positive school learning communities.  The article’s complete document is found at the following URL : 

http://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2010/02/17/metlife.html?tkn=RYTCpFN0hFiRdFFlQZlSJRxR2BVFGEgdORIh&cmp=clp-ascd  

Its basic ideas that relate to our committee work can [...]

hi everyone,

the meeting notes are now posted on the website. Thanks, Lorne and Judy, for volunteering to take the initial stab at consolidating what we have done into a working document!

James