Friday, December 16, 2011

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

RtI and the Teaching and Learning Framework

On December 8th, the Cohort 1 Response to Intervention group engaged in a day of reflective conversations regarding the Teaching and Learning Framework.  They brainstormed responses to this question:  

What are some of the elements of effective practices for teaching and learning?

Their thinking was charted and sorted into the standards that comprise the Teaching and Learning Framework.









Thank you Cohort 1 for connecting your funds of knowledge to the LAUSD Teaching and Learning Framework!





Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Individual Growth Plans: Technology

What might a classroom with a highly effective technology integrating teacher look like?

You may have heard of the concept of Pedagogical Content Knowledge.  This is the knowledge a teacher has of both the content they are teaching and the knowledge of how to teach it.  Click here for a more detailed explanation.  Lee Schulman is credited with the phrase "Pedagogical Content Knowledge".  Schulman's contribution can be visualized as the overlapping of Pedagogical Knowledge and Content Knowledge:

http://www.tpck.org/
Dr. Matthew J. Koehler, at the College of Education at Michigan State University, is working on a model that also incorporates Technological Knowledge.  All together now:  Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge!  (TPACK)
http://www.tpck.org/

Take a look at this video for an explanation of TPACK: