Are+You+C.O.M.M.I.T.T.E.D?


 * Are You C.O.M.M.I.T.T.E.D? **

I like to learn, and I know some of my greatest resources are my co-workers here at BACS. Let’s consider a new model of professional development called “mutual mentoring” (1), where colleagues work together in order to learn from each other (2). After a brief presentation, we'll discuss the possibilities. || CO llaboration = M utual M entoring I nvolves T eachers T raining E ach other D aily || **Presenter: ** Jodi Carr
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**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Audience: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> All

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">**Location:** BACS Science Classroom, courtesy of Gail Neukum

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Outcome - Goal - Suggested Strategies for Implementation **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">:

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 25.5pt; tabstops: list 25.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">1. to develop a list of mentors’ names, of those interested in collaborative learning among coworkers <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 25.5pt; tabstops: list 25.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">2. to develop a list of mentors’ areas of expertise and/or interests in learning <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 25.5pt; tabstops: list 25.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">3. to develop a plan for classroom coverage to facilitate observation and collaboration

__Number Sense Routines__ by Jessica Shumway <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">There is a GREAT example of teacher collaboration & success described in Acknowledgments, pgs. xi - xii (see preview online). []
 * Resources**

"The Better Lesson" This is an example of teachers collaborating by sharing lesson plans worldwide. []

"Minding the Generation Gap"; ASCD Read about the concept of 'mutual mentoring' among teachers. []

"Five Reasons for Integrating Technology"; Edutopia []

**__ PHILOSOPHY OF NEW CHURCH EDUCATION __** ** DeCharms, George 1942 p. 37 ** The purpose of education in the schools should be to provide for the development of every possible variety of mental equipment and to bring it into harmony with others - a harmony of  mutual affection, of   mutual appreciation and respect, not only of others but of the uses that they are preparing to perform.

**__ Essays on THE TEN COMMANDMENTS __** ** Odhner, Hugo Lj. 1972 p. 8 ** With the congregation of men into communities and nations there necessarily arises the need for Law, a law which might specify what are to be considered as the orderly and as the disorderly relations among men. For whenever two or more persons come into contact, there may arise either cooperation or conflict between them. Order brings cooperation and freedom and true delight into a community. Disorder brings conflict, compulsions and undelightful fears and anxieties. The idea underlying all community-life is that of mutual service.

**__ SPIRITUAL WORLD __** ** Odhner, Hugo Lj. 1968 p. 248 ** 15 THE OCCUPATIONS OF ANGELS In the attempt to picture what the life of heaven might be like, Christians have gone to various extremes. Some have thought that heaven was to be a material paradise planted on earth after this had been purged and renovated by the fire of the last judgment-an abundant paradise in which the elect of God without labor were to enjoy the utmost luxuries after their spirits had been reincarnated in their earthly bodies. Others, rejecting such gross concepts of eternal happiness, have imagined that the souls of the blessed, after death (and possibly to eternity), would remain as unembodied minds in a perpetual state of ecstasy. Both these ideas sprang from an inability to see that the spirit of man after death remains a man, in a spiritual body, having heart and lungs and brain and senses, and thus a complete human life in a complete and permanent spiritual world. The life of heaven is a complete human life, and the blessedness of the angels comes from a love of uses, from a delight in cooperating with other spirits in acts of charity and mutual   service.

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">(1) ASCD Publications, Education Update March 2011, Volume 53, Number 3: //<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Minding the Generation Gap in the Classroom. //

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">(2) Encarta Dictionary. “Collaboration: the act of working together with one or more people in order to achieve something.”