Wow...adult education in New Zealand!  Who knew?

This approach seems a bit closer to what we've been doing with our
practica in terms of bringing teachers together on a regular basis.
Like any multi-level class, the teachers all bring a wide variety of
skills and experiences.  Having a chance to meet regularly allows them
to not only share but to also form a professional learning community
(PLC).  This notion of PLCs is an exciting initiative our state has been
promoting. Toward that end our program's Professional Development
Committee/team is now working with the book Professional Learning
Communities at Work by Richard DuFour and Robert Eaker (Solution Tree).
This a great resource that we are excited to work with.

 

Jim Lipson

Volunteer Coordinator

Pima Community College Adult Education

520.884.8628

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From: professionaldevelopment-bounces at nifl.gov
[mailto:professionaldevelopment-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Niki
McCartney
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 2:08 PM
To: The Adult Literacy Professional Development Discussion List
Subject: [ProfessionalDevelopment 1368] Re: from Cris,job-embedded
professional development

 

Hello all 

I am currently trialling  a Team Teaching project which is in fact job
embedded PD.The aim is to help the tutors help the students who have low
literacy levels.  I meet with the tutors for one hour per week. The
first meeting involved identifying the literacy and numeracy component
requirements in their mainstream programmes. Since then in each weekly
meeting we reflect on the past week's work and overview the following
week. The project is still new in that we have only met 4 times but it
seems to be having a postive impact with tutors with comments like,
'it's the sort of thing I do anyway but you are providing a structure
for how to go about it'.  I find it extremely rewarding as it is giving
the tutors more tools and strategies and in the application they are
seeing more engaged students. I am also available to model particular
strategies for the tutors in the classrooms but this has not yet
happened. Any questions or comments relating to this project approach
would be most welcome.

 

Niki McCartney

Literacy Facilitator

 

Tairawhiti Polytechnic

290 Palmerston Rd

Gisborne

New Zealand

 

Te: 06 869 0810 ext 744

Fax: 06 868 6606

Email: nikim at tairawhiti.ac.nz

 

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