Teachers to teach teachers at statewide Common Core summit
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Teachers to teach teachers at statewide Common Core summit
Photograph: Beatrix Hauptmann
Photo: Beatrix Hauptmann
Thousands of California teachers, who've spent recent years simultaneously learning and teaching the new Common Cadre State Standards, will share ideas about what has worked best in their classrooms at a multi-site conference on July 31.
An expected 20,000 pre-K-12 teachers will lead and attend workshops on all-time practices they've discovered for education the new standards at the i-day consequence, "Amend Together: California Teacher Summit." It will be hosted at 33 college and university campuses throughout the state.
Kitty Dixon, senior vice president for special projects at the New Teacher Center, a Santa Cruz-based nonprofit dedicated to improving teacher effectiveness, said the conference aims to inspire and aid teachers struggling to observe effective curriculum materials and best practices to help them implement the new standards. These concerns, she said, have been at the height of teachers' lists when asked what would most aid them.
"The Common Core standards don't merely focus on content but on pedagogy – on how teaching is done, from project-based learning to teaching critical thinking and problem-solving skills and how to persevere," Dixon said. "Nosotros've been asking teachers to totally alter the look and feel of teaching too every bit deepen the content, and that's a big shift for California."
The New Instructor Center is organizing the summertime event in collaboration with the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities and California State University. The consequence will be offered at no price to teachers, and is underwritten by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Claire Cavallaro, dean of the Higher of Education at Cal Land Fullerton, said the event volition be structured along the lines of previous 1-twenty-four hours Edcamp conferences, where teachers have drawn up the agendas to share what has worked best in their classrooms.
At the "Amend Together" summit, the twenty-four hours will begin at each site with a keynote voice communication by someone who is not a teacher, such as a business leader, politician, or athlete. Later, teachers will intermission into groups focused on topics they will choose that same day. Upshot organizers say ideas for those workshops might include how all-time to organize project-based learning, how to improve spoken language in early grades, and how to help students develop more persistence.
The day will as well feature 10-minute "ED Talks" modeled subsequently the pop TED Talks, with each higher site choosing three teachers to talk nearly how they've been implementing the standards.
Cavallaro said the organizers planned to link the sites together electronically so that attendees could instantly share their experiences, but that they hadn't yet figured out how this would happen.
At Orange Grove Elementary School in Anaheim, 1st-class teacher Elena Tinder, a 23-year veteran instructor who recently registered to attend the briefing, said she thought the idea of teachers teaching each other about topics they chose on the spot sounded "revolutionary."
Tinder added that her district began implementing the new standards 3 years ago, simply that she has so far been frustrated past what she described as a lack of adequate coaching in the standards and an absence of constructive instructional materials aligned with the Common Core. She said she looked forrad to hearing how her colleagues throughout the state accept coped with these challenges.
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