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.
