We are in the process of making teacher-groups for Family Math Night. The teachers (MTH 221 students) will work together to develop an activity related to specific standards, try out the activity with K-6 students, and reflect on the activity's effectiveness. Throughout the project, teachers use frameworks from the 5 Practices and the Principles to Actions to inform their efforts. This is one of the ways I try to embed the work of teaching into the course.
Because I also want to prepare pre-service teachers to be your future colleagues, I am soliciting your help in identifying norms for collaboration. What are some things you look for in colleagues with whom you choose to work? I am trying to come up with five criteria that the teachers could consider as they evaluate their interactions with their peers.
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Thank you in advance for your contributions to the development of these future educators.
I would list "effective listening" -- that is, the ability (habit) of listening with intent to understand before responding, accepting, questioning, critiquing, probing, defending, elaborating, extending... etc. This maybe cuts across the -ERS part of PEERS?
ReplyDeleteWork ethic definitely, with a sense of responsibility and desire to make an equitable contribution ("being a team player") certainly rises to the top for me as well. Those ideas seem to be hidden in the PE- of PEERS.