2013 Title I Conference

The implementation of the Common Core State Standards means educators need to have a deeper conceptual understanding of the English Language Arts, Mathematics and fluency with student-centered teaching practices. With the implementation of the Standards, it is vitally important for school administrators and staff interested in engaging their faculty on the Standards to use an embedded form of professional development known as “teacher-led classroom walkthroughs.” The idea for this session is to show how to engage teachers in continuous and sustained learning about their practices related to the Common Core Standards in a setting in which they actually work. Most important is to focus on how to create a teacher-led walk-through model that gives opportunities for teachers to observe and be observed followed by them sharing through those observations reflective discussions on how to change and improve their Common Core curricula and teaching practices.