Chapter reading concepts

1. Teacher Collaboration
Chapter 10

2. Teachers as partners
Teachers are always students
Teachers learn from each other
Teachers learn from students

3. Share
Successful teachers share their experiences and those of others
with their students about the world outside of the classroom.

4. Common ground
Teachers understand who their students are.
Teachers find the common ground.

5. “Even Steven”
All students are on the same ground. Teachers are
facilitators…and managers of their environment.

6. Data driven!
Successful teachers use assessment data to drive
instruction and gauge student achievement.

7. Get involved! Research
shows it works!
Research shows that Latino parents hold social and academic priorities equally
as important and a key to a successful community.
Latinos also reported greater involvement of significant others.
Jeanne D’Haem and Peter Griswold, Teacher Educators’ and Student Teachers’
Beliefs About Preparation for Working With Families Including Those From
Diverse Socioeconomic and Cultural Backgrounds, Education and Urban
Society, 49, 1, (81), (2017).

8. Partnership
Successful students take ownership and are shareholders
in the classroom and in the learning process.

9. Critical Thinking
In an educational climate that emphasizes testing, students need to
sharpen their critical thinking skills to do well on standardized tests.

10. Rigor
Students should be challenged to “live up to their potential.”
Tried and true words.
Challenged students challenge teachers.
But in a good way

11. Awareness
Students are leaders and need the educations and skills
to cultivate the future of the community around them.

12. Cited
Alex R. Lin, Sandra D. Simpkins, Erin R. Gaskin and Cecilia Menjívar, Cultural values and other perceived benefits of organized
activities: A qualitative analysis of Mexican-origin parents’ perspectives in Arizona, Applied Developmental Science,
10.1080/10888691.2016.1224669, 22, 2, (89-109), (2016).