On "Becoming a Better Teacher" « Chalkdust101 - The Diigo Meta page

• 11 May 09
  

  Jorunn Sørtveit
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    ascd, carlglickman, curriculum, darrendraper, learning, peerreview, supervision, teaching
    

     

    On “Becoming a Better Teacher”

    In  change on April 14, 2008 at  10:00 pm  

     

     

    Today, I spent a good portion of the day preparing for tomorrow’s monthly  meeting with our first-year teachers. In doing so, Dan and I often enter into  conversations about what the ideal situation would be for our first-year  teachers to find themselves in a few years down the line. Mostly, the  conversation centers on asking teachers to share what they do, as we have some  extremely talented educators not only in our district, but also within this crop  of new teachers.

     

    Darren  Draper’s latest post, which pulls a page from Carl  Glickman’s book Leadership for Learning: How to Help Teachers  Succeed. I’ve recopied the page here because Glickman makes points that  I couldn’t possibly state any better.

     
• 15 Apr 08
  

  William Ferriter

  A Patrick Higgins bit on the importance of peer observations in the development of teachers that is designed to start conversations on the best ways to make peer observations safe.

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  Darren Draper
  • Our push with the teachers we work with is not to call them out or catch them doing something wrong: it’s quite the contrary. We want to catch them being competent, and we don’t necessarily need to be the ones doing the “catching.” The concept of peer review, or as Glickman notes above “welcoming visitors with experience and expertise,” into classrooms, is, in my view, essential to the success of both teachers and the schools they work in.

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