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Collaborative Departmental Teaching:  Gateway to Personalized Learning

In this second essay in the series of commentary on the promotion of the Collaborative Departmental Teaching (CDT) model for the elementary classroom, we explain how the model provides a practical foundation for personalized learning.  

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Classroom Consciousness: Ten Steps to Effective Teaching      

CC Ten is a compilation of our collective knowledge and experience about the classroom, a distillation of research, and commentary from top teachers in the field.

 

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Nonfiction through Fiction: A Classroom Approach

One of the most significant and comprehensive skill sets for the elementary teacher is the developing an understanding of nonfiction and fiction. Knowledge of these linguistically-based concepts is essential for pre-cognitive development at this stage of student learning because different subjects are connected through language.  This linguistic connection is how students understand how the subject areas connect, and it allows teachers to assess their students.  This is an outline of this strategy and suggestions for its implementation and assessment.

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Collaborative Departmental Teaching

The following essay is the first in a series of commentary on a Collaborative Departmental Teaching (CDT) model for the elementary classroom.  It is our intent to define this model from a professional perspective and to promote its implementation to those who have the desire and insight to adapt it to their schools.  We write in support of the model’s theoretical import and in advocacy of its practical application.

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