"Teachers need teachers to grow" Outline

Teachers need Teachers To Grow

-Outline-

• Purpose: To examine the nature of teacher learning in a cohort-based master's degree program intentionally designed for personal needs and preferences.
• Thesis: Teacher learning not only takes place in the classroom.
• Audience: Teachers from different levels of schooling and content áreas as well as different contexts.

I. Teacher learning
    A. The sociocentric view (knowledge as a result of group work)
    B. A cohort-structure
       a. Definition
       b. Types of cohorts
       c. benefits of the cohort model.


II. Research study
    A. Data collection methods (analysis of documents, field notes and observations)
      a. Quantitative responses
      b. Qualitative responses.


III. Cohort description
    A: Number of teachers who participated.
    B. Teachers' working places and positions.
    C. Reasons for entering the program.


IV. Benefits of the program.
    A: Assignments apply to teachers' needs.
    B. Advanced practicum during the year.
    C. Both teachers and professors grow professionally.


V. Teachers learning processes
    A. Survey analysis
    B. Sample comments


VI. Collaborative culture
    A: Positive aspects of becoming a learning team.


VII. The mesh between program design and teachers' learning processes
    A. Characteristics of a graduate program according to teachers
    B. Advantages of the cohort-based program


Reference: Wenzlaff, T and Wieseman, K (2004). "Teachers Need Teachers To Grow". Teachers Education Quartely