University School District Collaboration

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University School District Collaboration

• Co-Teaching as a Model for Delivery of
  Professional Development

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What Makes Collaboration Work?

• Who? People matter.
• What? Content matters.
• How? Strategies matter.
• Why? Relationships matter.

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Sandra James

• 35 Years Experience in the School District of
  Philadelphia
• Former Mathematics Coach for the East Region
• Currently a Mentor for PAHSCI

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Trish Joergensen, EdD

• 9 Years Teaching Experience in Philadelphia
• Assistant Professor Holy Family University School
  of Education

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TQE Math Course Our Thoughts

• Focus on high quality mathematics found in
  teachers current curriculum
• Focus on students that teachers see each day
• Focus on teacher collaboration
• Expanding teachers available strategies to teach
  mathematics
• Focus on student learning
• Making an instructional difference in teachers
  classrooms with teachers setting the goals

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The most important work that teachers do is the
work they do with students.

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How do we accomplish these goals?

• Lesson Study

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What is Lesson Study?

• Teacher-led instructional improvement cycle
• Japanese approach to instructional improvement
• Cycle in which teachers work together to
  consider long-term goals for students and bring
  those goals to life in actual research lessons
  and collaboratively observe discuss and refine
  the lessons. page 1, Lesson Study Handbook.

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Addressing the Culture of Teaching

• Current Practices
• Isolation in planning
• Evaluative observations

• TQE Math Lesson Study Group
• Collaboration in planning
• Another set of eyes

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Addressing the Culture of Professional Development

• Creating Opportunities for Communication
• Creating Opportunities for Relationships
• Examining Student Learning
• Examining the Curriculum

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Visiting Teachers in their Classrooms

• We visited teachers in 2 out of the 4 high school
  in the East Region.
• We visited teachers in 2 out of 3 middle schools
  in the East Region.
• We visited teachers in 13 out of 16 elementary
  schools in the East region.

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The most important work that teachers do is the
work they do with students.

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Some of the Teachers
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TQE Participants become Instructors