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Teachers in the Arlington Independent School District are not just teaching students, they are also teaching each other.
Under a new program called Professional Learning Communities, teachers of specific departments regularly meet to talk about what is and is not working in the classroom, how students are responding and to analyze data - everything from quiz scores to parent and student surveys.
“They’ll review data, analyze that data and make very specific plans for improvement,” said Dr. Marcelo Cavazos, AISD Superintendent of schools.
“We collaborate together but we each get to be our own individual teacher in our classroom, even though we're covering the same subject matter. But we can borrow ideas from each other,” said Duane Forson, an 8th grade science teacher at Shackelford Jr. High.
Like most departments, Shackleford’s 7th and 8th grade science teachers used to spend six weeks teaching students, then they would grade them at the end of that term.
Via Mary Perfitt-Nelson
