Re: Teacher Enhancement: Present and as a Legacy
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Thu, 22 Feb 96 17:09:08 EST
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TEECH "LEAVING A LEGACY: Sustaining a Project After the Funding Ends"
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One cost effective way of providing coverage for teachers during the day is an
industry replacement model which has been in use for the past five years in
mathematics professional development projects I direct at EDC. As part of the
most recent project, Teachers, Time and Transformations, we developed a manual
entitled, "Industry Volunteers in the Classroom: Freeing Teachers' Time for
Professional Development" which describes in detail the components necessary to
establish a program where volunteers from local industries regularly replace
teachers in their classrooms. We have found it highly successful, with the
added benefit of creating support for the hard work that teachers do. (Comments
such as, "I never knew how hard it was to teach!" were not uncommon from
volunteers...) I would be happy to share any of this information with you.
Faye Ruopp
Education Development Center
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TEECH "LEAVING A LEGACY: Sustaining a Project After the Funding Ends"
Sent by: glieber@sdcoe.k12.ca.us <glieber@sdcoe.k12.ca.us> (Grace Lieberman)
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Hi! I am new to your group. I am working on a 3 year NSF Teacher
Enhancement Grant with the Poway Unified School District in southern
California. I have several questions to address to the group concerning
e-mails that I have received. However, I would like to briefly outline our
NSF project so that you know where my questions and comments are coming
from. Please feel free to comment or ask questions. I look forward to
learning from all of you about how to continue the efforts, successes and
changes that have been occurring in our Project over the past year and a
half.
" Making Science Real" is a 3 year middle school interdisciplinary team
project designed to improve the scientific literacy of teachers and student
through teacher enhancement. Our main goal is to design an implement a
site-based process to integrate instruction, technology and assessment to
improve both teacher and student scientific literacy. A secondary goal is
to develop 12 interdisciplinary thematic units that will improve teacher
and student scientific literacy. (Not so much as a product but as a
process.) Now in Year 1 1/2, we have 45 sixth, seventh and eight grade
teachers in areas of Science, Social Studies, Language Arts and Math
working together on 14 Teams in 5 middle schools. The Team make-up (i.e.,
with or without a math component) varies depending on the school. The
student grouping [pure-all students go through same Team teachers] or mixed
[some but not all students are on same team] also varies among the schools.
We have about 12 thematic units in varying degrees of completion. We are
seeing growth/change in scientific literacy (qualitatively and hopefully
quantitatively in the next 1 1/2 years) both on the part of the teachers
and students. We have 1 1/2 years to strengthen what we have, zero in on a
process(es) and motivate and assess change.
Questions/Problems we would like to address re: "Life after NSF."
1. NSF Team Development/NSF Team Identity after Year 3. We have been
successful in having groups that have come together and work well within
their own teams. Where we are having problems is in getting them to
communicate among other teams both at their Sites and across the District.
2. Site Administrators. How to motivate their "buy-in." We are spending
significant funds for Team Days (1 per month) during which Teachers can
meet, design, develop, assess and build a relationship and a process for
continuing teacher enhancement which benefits teachers and students after
the grant is over. We also provide sub-days for additional teacher
enhancement and peer coaching. In addition, funds are available for
purchase of resources for use with Team Member's classes. This translates
into significant funding. Any ideas for the future?
3. How to continue teacher commitment after Year 3?
4. How to continue my role as facilitator among the: Teams, Sites and
District Office after the grant is over?
I will gladly answer any questions and look forward to your responses.
Grace M. Lieberman
Poway Unified School District
13626 Twin Peaks Road
Poway, CA 92064
(619) 748-0010 ext 2234
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