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Jun
7
Creating Collaborative Relationships of Power in Literacy Teaching-Learning
June 7, 2008 | 1 Comment
This book describes another example of university-school collaboration project aimed at teacher learning. A unique feature here is that the teachers determined the direction of inquiry and not the academic researchers. The term collaborative here is used to describe the way the teacher researchers learned to work with the uni researchers AND how they learned [...]
May
14
In this letter to the new president of the US, Lieberman and Pointer Mace call for a move from traditional PD for teachers to a model of PD based on the collaborative learning from teacher experience and knowledge. The authors explain that “Teachers work in isolation and only rarely have a chance to observe their colleagues or [...]
May
14
Getting Teachers to Write – narrative draft
May 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment
While writing this thesis I was running a professional development program for teachers of grades two to six. The name of the twenty eight hour course was “Improving Literacy in a Heterogeneous Class”. The teachers voluntarily signed up. I began the course by asking the fourteen teachers participating to fill in a questionnaire about [...]
