Teaching Learning Collaborative: A Process for Supporting Professional Learning Communities

by: Kathryn DiRanna, Jo Topps, Karen Cerwin, and Susan Gomez-Zwiep

The teaching learning collaborative (TLC) is a unique professional development strategy that engages groups of teachers in collaborative planning and teaching of a science lesson, coaching and mentoring, and examining student work. In this chapter, the authors share the TLC processes and tools as an example of a PLC focused on the real work of teaching science in daily classroom practice. Through the use of a vignette they explicate how teachers work collaboratively to achieve their goals for student learning.

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Type Book ChapterPub Date 4/2/2009Stock # PB239X_3

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