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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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