012 Coherence And Dissonance

Dr. Heidi Hallman, associate professor of English education at the University of Kansas and author of Secondary English Teacher Education in the United States: Responding to a Changing Context, joins our PLC this month. Patterns in teacher preparation have changed over the last couple decades. Patterns in how teachers are trained to use standards, leverage technology and support diverse learnings impact how those teachers will participate in their future departments. Later, we’ll look at how research into mastery learning has affected success in surgical training. Differences in practice and assessment method lead to differences in student growth. The nature of the practice problems, the schedule on which we practice and the rate at which we move on to new material all affect the progress of our students and the durability of their competency. We drink Surreal Skies, an imperial dark saison from Double Shift Brewing.