Visiting Other Teachers in Your School: A Basis for Communication
| Autor: | Illa Podendorf, Audrey M. Borth, James P. Rose, George K. T. McGuire |
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| Rok vydání: | 1958 |
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| Zdroj: | The Elementary School Journal. 58:331-334 |
| ISSN: | 1554-8279 0013-5984 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/459649 |
| Popis: | "I'm having trouble getting the pupils in my home room to work well together. How do they get along when they come to you for science class?" Questions like these commonly come up in conversation among teachers, and the persons to whom they are put are in an excellent position to offer helpful answers. Day after day teachers who work together in the same school face similar problems, and during the course of a year individual staff members work out many sound solutions. The question arises: How can teachers best share their professional experience with colleagues? There are, of course, many established ways: faculty meetings, curriculum discussions, in-service training programs and institutes, bulletins, and committee reports. Helpful as these may be to the classroom teacher, they are still secondary sources. To read or hear about a classroom experiment or experience is seldom as profitable or as stimulating as seeing it at first hand. Problems like those mentioned here are linked with what happens in the classroom. For this reason one of the best sources of help may lie in watching another teacher at work in a classroom setting. Most schools set aside a visiting day when teachers can observe classes in schools other than their own. Few schools, however, have an organized program through which teachers can freely and frequently observe in classrooms of fellow staff members-the very persons whose professional problems they most closely share. |
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