SITE CONTENTS: NPEAT Home Index for "Groupwork in Diverse Classrooms" Index for "Diversity in the Classroom" Index for "The Intern Teacher Casebook"   Contact Information: Judy Shulman Director, Institute for Case Development WestEd 730 Harrison Street San Francisco, CA 94107 email: jshulma@WestEd.org Phone: (415) 565-3057 Fax: (415) 512-2024

NPEAT The National Partnership for Excellence and Accountability in Teaching Case Methods and Standards-based Education, 1.4.6. This project applies case methods to support new and veteran teachers as they learn to bridge the gap between the abstract principles embedded in the teaching standards and the particular world of practice they encounter in their classrooms. Description of the project The project begins with an analysis of The INTASC standards as statements of excellent teaching knowledge and performance for new teachers; we analyze how these standards interact with dilemmas and practices portrayed in selected case narratives, which describe the realities of teachers’ classroom lives. We will then: develop new cases that represent domains of practice covered by standards for which no clarifying cases yet exist, paying particular attention to how the INTASC standards ought to frame the discussion materials that accompany each case; offer training institutes to expand the cadre of teacher educators and staff developers who can effectively use standards-based case teaching practices through a series of training institutes; and evaluate the impact of this work, examining how case analysis influences teachers' understanding of standards and how this understanding contributes to teachers' classroom practices. What’s currently on this website? An index of selected casebooks, published at WestEd, aligned to the INTASC standards. These include: Index to GROUPWORK IN DIVERSE CLASSROOMS: A Casebook for Educators Index to DIVERSITY IN THE CLASSROOM: A Casebook for Teachers and Teacher Educators Index to THE INTERN TEACHER CASEBOOK Have Questions About Cases? Please contact Judy Shulman if you desire assistance in using cases and/or these indices in your programs.