Teacher Rounds: A Guide to Collaborative Learning in and From Practice - Softcover

Del Prete, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1452268150 ISBN 13: 9781452268156

Publisher: Corwin, 2013

Synopsis

Teacher Rounds: Powerful peer-to-peer teacher professional development!

Teachers are ready to be in the driver’s seat as leaders of their own learning—and their best professional development resources may be their own classrooms and colleagues. With Teacher Rounds methodology, teachers learn with and from each other through classroom observation and inquiry and develop a trusted community of practice. Scholar-teacher Thomas Del Prete outlines every aspect of this ongoing, collaborative approach:

• Step-by-step guidance and tools for implementing Teacher Rounds
• Insights on creating a positive environment for honest feedback
• A wealth of examples from a high-performing school and across all grade levels and disciplines

About this title

About the Author

Thomas Del Prete is the inaugural Director of the Adam Institute for Urban Teaching and School Practice at Clark University in Worcester, MA. He is past Director of the Hiatt Center for Urban Education at Clark and a former teacher of history and English at the middle and high school levels. He has worked for twenty-five years in teacher education, school-university partnership, and school reform. His previous books include Improving the Odds: Developing Powerful Teaching Practice and a Culture of Learning in Urban High Schools and Thomas Merton and the Education of the Whole Person. He has participated in hundreds of Teacher Rounds, most with his colleagues in the urban schools of “Main South” in Worcester, MA, in an effort to learn in and from practice.

From the Back Cover

A conceptual and practical guide to Teacher Rounds - a powerful form of job-embedded professional development with proven potential to support collaborative learning centered on student learning.

Edition details

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1452268150
• ISBN 13: 9781452268156
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 184