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MnSCU and University of Minnesota Distance Learning Initiative
Teaching for Diversity, Conferencing and Communicating
with Parents, and Self-Reflection
We propose a Module for Teacher Development that addresses
both the needs of first year teachers and their
Mentors in the specific areas of Teaching for Diversity,
Conferencing and Communicating with Parents, and Self-reflections
Information about the need for this module combining these
dynamically important elements of education
Module Design and Outcomes
The module design will combine readings of the interview
text collected of master teachers from our recent
study and our current study with video taped observations
of these teachers' classrooms "in operation" which can be
used in both distance education contexts and presentations
designed for parent information. The module will be
presented through an Independent Learning packet of print
material with specific activities (sample follows), a
collection of 10 video taped observations from the master
teachers' classrooms, and a World Wide Web Homepage
for our module users. This Homepage will include resources
to support further investigation of the module content,
a discussion board for module users to discuss their
participation, archives of work samples of participants, and
parent responses to new information they are Teaming about
their children's activities in school. As a part of the
structured activities teachers will read interviews that we
have collected with practicing teachers, view videos of their
classrooms, and then be encouraged create presentations to
parents. The presentations for parents will serve a
combined purpose of informing parents about promising practices,
listening to parents' concerns and priorities for
their children's Teaming, and showing the parents samples
of the children's work which documents progress and
growth through these promising practices which focus on diversity.
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