Program: Scarsdale Teachers Institute
Audience: 9 & 10 SHS Core teachers, LRC teachers, Deans and Support faculty
Dates: 10/12/2022 to 6/9/2023
This course would be an opportunity for the Core level (skills level) teachers to reflect, build curriculum, integrate common practices, and ensure student welfare. At the moment, skills level teachers have no time built into their schedules to allow for collaboration. Given this opportunity to meet as a group, we can share common practices and tools, create interdisciplinary opportunities, build curriculum in response to student needs, and monitor student progress across classes. This would allow the grade-level teams an opportunity to discuss student academic progress, and monitor class-related behavior. This would allow for more effective communication between student/ home and the student's academic team. By bringing together the 9th and 10th grade skills teams, we can work together to create vertical alignment between the years, and also split our time for the individual teams to work based on grade-level concerns. By bringing together the different subject areas, the expertise of each teacher can strengthen each one's individual curriculum. This will be the first year of, hopefully, an ongoing practice for the skills classes. Over time this may grow to include the 11th grade, as well as larger interdisciplinary projects and events.
This course will only include Core (skills) level teachers, LRC teachers, deans, and support faculty who work with the 9th and 10th grades. During our meetings, we will share common practices, teaching tools, and classroom management skills. We will communicate student strengths and needs between grade-levels and among courses, share content and assessment strategies and policies. Teachers will have the opportunity to share materials, lessons, assessments, etc with the group to reflect on and give feedback based on our varied understandings and experiences of the group of students and varied curricula.
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Creating a library of common practices, skills, materials, language, and tools and work towards vertical alignment for 9th and 10th grade.