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posted by:
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Margaret Small
on December 8, 1998
at 6:38AM
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Re: Ways to bring the shy, reluctant elementary teacher into leadership
roles
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It is our experience in the Chicago Secondary Mathematics Improvement Project
that many teachers need at least two years teaching a new curriculum before they
are comfortable assuming significant teacher leadership roles. The confidence to
express what is working well in one's own classroom is rooted in substantial
experience. This is what gives teacher leader potential credibility with other
colleagues who are skeptical about change.
We are in the second year of our program and we have an emerging core of 10
teacher leaders. All of them are in at least their second year of working with
the new curriculum. Several have taught it for 3 or 4 years. It seems necessary
for a teacher to have a significant personal foundation in the new tasks before
they are comfortable standing before others advocating a new approach and
direction.
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Welcome
- posted by Brian Drayton
on 10/26/98 - 06:52
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