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Teachers See Benefit in Peer-to-Peer InteractionBy Learning Forward on August 15, 2011 11:55 AM If your work in any way involves teachers, you'll want to take a look at the National Center for Education Information's recently released Profile of Teachers in the U.S. 2011. This survey of 2,500 randomly selected K-12 public school teachers addresses a whole range of topics, from teachers' perceptions of their preparation programs to their overall job satisfaction....Of the teachers surveyed, a whopping 93 percent felt "very competent" to teach the subjects they teach, while only 44 percent felt they were "very competent" when they started teaching. When asked, "What's most valuable in developing your competence to teach?" a significant majority of teachers cited their own teaching experiences and their work with other teachers and colleagues. (emphasis mine).Read the rest at:http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning_forwards_pd_watch/2011/08/teachers_see_benefit_in_peer-to-peer_interaction.html?cmp=ENL-TU-VIEWS2
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Posted by Joye Alberts
August 18, 2011 at 9:39am

Thanks for posting this blog with the information about this survey, Heather. Interesting data and good to get the thoughts of what is important to teachers about their own professoinal leraning out there whenever possible. I was interested to read more about Learning Forward. I am not familiar with the group so it was helpful to find out a little about what they do.

Posted by Elyse Eidman-Aadahl
August 18, 2011 at 5:40pm

Cool, thanks. Tweeting out too. The blog mentions the revamped PD standards from Learning Forward, which we link to in another post. I'll pull these two together as related content. It is interesting that the writer of the blog draws conclusions about peer-to-peer scoring high and PD scoring lower. This is a talking point for us too, I think.

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