Saturday, April 21, 2012


My first podcast: It was taken from Stanford University.

Speakers: Pam Grossman, PhD, Nomellini Olivier (Professor of Education Faculty Director, CSET); Ann Jaquith, PhD, (Director of leadership for Excellent Teaching CSET); Emily Davis, PhD (Director of Partnership School Induction Program).
This video is about Stanford Summer Teaching Institute (SSTI), it’s divided into four parts.

In the first part Nomellini Olivier talks about CSET (Center to Support Excellence in teaching) and explained that to be on the top or on the bottom of a class depends on, the difference between having a good teacher and a weak teacher for three years in a role.
Ann Jaquith said that CSET involves how to support excellence teaching and the kind of leadership it need after the different level that can support high quality in every classroom.

The second part talks about the opportunities of SSTI. SSTI is an opportunity for teacher to continue deepening their own understanding, at the content that they teach and teaching itself.
Faculty comes also from across to the University to teach SSTI for Science, for English and for History.
Some of the SSTI courses are three or four days long, but also two weeks long. They are courses where teachers get the opportunity to rehearse and to plan for the use of these particular institutions or strategies. Or even leadership strategy in the institute itself. It is a way for teachers to get feedback on how to improve what it is that they are planning to do in their classroom or school context.

The third part is about SSTI Leadership for learning workshop and team-based classes.
It is called the Leadership for learning course. It is a course where they ask teams, teachers or teams of the ministry to come. It has two primary goals: 1: to develop an instructional leader team that has a share division of what instructional excellence is in their school. 2: to teach team instructional leader about the sources they need in order to support excellent instruction at their school.
The proses of these courses are that leadership teams begin to actively engage and building resources that they are going to need to support excellence teaching.

In the last part they talk about SSTI Continual Support.
Most of the SSTI courses have fall-up opportunity throughout the year, where teachers come to the institute. For example they come back together again to talk about the ideas and the strategies they tried out and that worked in the content of realize situation. The institution wants teachers to share what they have learned with their colleagues to continually improve the learning opportunity for students.
SSTI is long term and it gives teachers the opportunity to engage in professional development and the target that they need. Teachers get feedback and support that they need to improve their teaching at learning.
Nomellini Olivier argued that it is impossible for teachers to get a higher quality intellectuality challenges and experiences for students in their classroom if they don’t continue to engage an intellectuality challenging.

To conclude, SSTI is ongoing nourishment that teachers need to keep their classroom vibrate, and to make it excited for kids.

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