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Setting
This videotape shows
the science and mathematics professional development program in Clark
County School District in Nevada. This district is the sixth largest
school district in the country. It is located in an economically diverse
community with a population of nearly 1.5 million. Clark County’s
professional development program highlights the critical issues of
building professional culture and a capacity for professional learning,
developing leadership, supporting standards and frameworks, and finding
time for teacher learning.
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Goals
of this Professional Development
Design
To support
teacher learning in four areas:
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How
to use standards-based curriculum materials;
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Content
knowledge in mathematics and science;
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Effective
instruction/standards-based practices; and
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How
students learn and assessment practices.
Develop principals' understanding
of:
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What
you can gain from using this video
This tape shows how professional development are used in one school
district's comprehensive professional development program.
- Curriculum Implementation:
Learning, using, and refining use of instructional materials.
- Content Workshops:
Using structured opportunities outside the classroom to learn
mathematics and science content and content-specific teaching
and learning approaches
- Immersion in Content
and Inquiry: Immersing teachers in science and mathematics investigations.
- Observing Teaching
or Demonstration Lessons: Observing and learning from demonstrations
of lessons from the new curriculum. Study
Groups: Regular, collaborative interactions to examine new information,
reflect on
classroom practice, and analyze outcome data.
- Developing Administrators
as Professional Developers and Leaders of Learning: Sessions
focused on building administrators’ understanding of the
science and mathematics content and pedagogy needed to create
standards-based teaching
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