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Summer Training 2011. Presenter: Heidi Wagner. Transforming Classroom Practice (TCP). Objectives. To help you understand WHY you will be doing this thing called TCP To help you understand WHAT TCP is and WHAT it will look like on your campus To share WHO will be involved. WHY.
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Summer Training 2011 Presenter: Heidi Wagner
Objectives • To help you understand WHY you will be doing this thing called TCP • To help you understand WHAT TCP is and WHAT it will look like on your campus • To share WHO will be involved
Talk to your elbow partner about where the bulk of the teachers fall on the bell curve at your campus.
Poor to middling in quality Mediocre
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."--William Arthur Ward "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."--William Arthur Ward
Transforming Classroom Practice understanding the imperative to address and eliminate MEDIOCRITY
Enhance 2 Energize
“Although it is important for educators to understand how researchers have come to define the elements of good instruction, we have found that no robust improvement process can succeed without first respecting the fact that all practitioners in the system have their own beliefs about what constitutes good instruction.” Tony Wagner & Robert KeganChange Leadership, 2006
NEXT STEPS … • Plan who will be meeting in TCP other than required members, if any. • Meet with PSP to decide on date for TCP orientation session. • Pick up books during break.
Heidi Wagner Region XIII, ESC Heidi.Wagner@esc13.txed.net512.919.5108
Heidi Wagner 512-919-5108 heidi.wagner@esc13.txed.net