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Tools and support related to transformational teacher actions and mindsets, culturally sustaining pedagogy, supporting students through trauma and adversity, and teaching and learning with students remotely
Teacher Practices & Perspectives
Teacher Practices & Perspectives
Our studies of transformational classrooms suggest that educators engage in common behaviors in and around classrooms that help students develop as leaders. While these visible actions are important, even more critical are the less visible, inner ways that these teachers orient to themselves, others, and systems. These resources share important considerations for behaviors, actions, and mindsets—whether teaching virtually or face-to-face.
Core Insights: Six Practices of Collective Leadership in the Classroom
Core Insights: Eight Perspectives of Collective Leaders in the Classroom
This resource describes the critically important mindsets and ways of orienting to self, others, and systems that are common among transformational classroom leaders. These patterns are helpful to validate, challenge, and evolve what mindsets are being nurtured I training institutes. Click here to view a 7-minute video overview.
How Program Designers Can Best Evolve Training and Support Models
This resource is useful to inform adjustments to the teacher actions, mindsets and learning theory at virtual or remote training institutes.
Collective Leadership & Learning: A Reflective Tool
This interactive site invites you to explore the Practices, Perspectives, and Learning Principles that develop collective leadership in and beyond the classroom to grow students as leaders.
Collective Leadership & Learning Workbook for Classroom Leaders
This resource shares practical exercises to help teachers, teacher coaches, and program designers act on the actions, mindsets and learning theory emerging from our studies of strong classrooms.
Videos from Transformational Classrooms to Provoke Virtual Collective Learning
Videos from Transformational Classrooms to Provoke Virtual Collective Learning
Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy
Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy
Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy is an approach to teaching that aims to integrate, foster, and sustain students' cultural backgrounds in schools. These resources explore strategies and examples of how culturally relevant teaching and learning shows up in the classroom.
Learning from Culturally Sustaining Classrooms around the Globe
This article summarizes some of what we are learning about culturally sustaining practices in classrooms around the globe. It may be useful to inform institute design.
Putting Culturally Responsive Pedagogy into Practice
The checklist can be used to ensure culturally and linguistically responsive instruction. This could serve as a useful reflection tool as program’s adjust training and support experiences. [Requires login to Portal]
Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy
Throughout this self-paced course, you will learn about culturally sustaining pedagogy and practice: What is it? What does it look, sound, and feel like in the classroom? How can it be fostered in classrooms? Disponible en Español.
Teach For America's Culturally Relevant Pedagogy Quick Reference Guide
This resource summarizes some of the foundational pillars of culturally relevant pedagogy and shares aspects of how they manifest in teacher actions. [Requires login to Portal]
Making Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy an Integral Part of Institute: Enseña por México Example
Explore an example of how Enseña por México is incorporating Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy into the Summer Institute. [Requires login to Portal]
Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy Resource List
A list of resources used in Teach for All's Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy Online Course, includes readings, videos, reflections and examples. Disponible en Español.
Videos illustrating Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy to Provoke Virtual Collective Learning
Videos illustrating Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy to Provoke Virtual Collective Learning
Developing and Practicing Basic Teaching Skills and Content Pedagogy Remotely or Virtually
Developing and Practicing Basic Teaching Skills and Content Pedagogy Remotely or Virtually
In this section, we hope to share guidance and examples of how programs are adapting content pedagogy and classroom teaching practices to fit virtual contexts.
Teaching and Learning With Students Virtually or Remotely
Teaching and Learning With Students Virtually or Remotely
In light of this crisis, teachers are thinking creatively about how to engage their students through virtual or remote technologies. We strongly believe that what we have learned from transformational classrooms around the globe still holds true in virtual contexts, but may show up in different ways. In this section, we hope to share examples of innovative, virtual teaching and learning from within and outside the network.
Case Study: Teach For Armenia's Shift to a Virtual Leadership Academy
This resource shares strategies and plans that the team have put in place to adjust their institute training program during this pandemic. [Requires login to Portal]
Workshop Insights: Developing Fundamentals of Teaching and Content Pedagogy Virtually
In this workshop video, three organizations—Impulso Docente, Teach Like a Champion Online, and Firki (Teach For India)—shared online resources for practicing and supporting teaching fundamentals and content pedagogy virtually and without students.
We would love to learn from you! If you have a related resource or example of how you are thinking about virtual learning in your context, please consider sharing with us.
Global Learning Lab Resources
Global Learning Lab Resources
Find more resources (including more videos and practical tools that may be useful for virtual learning with fellows) on our website.
Teach For All's Partner Learning Portal COVID-19 Resources
Teach For All's Partner Learning Portal COVID-19 Resources
A resource hub to share examples of how our global network has responded to the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Note: Only open to Staff of Teach For All network partner organizations.
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