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2. TEACHER STUDY GROUPS?
What is a teacher study group?
A teacher study group is when teachers come together
collectively to share their ideas and experiences. Teacher study groups
can be a form of professional development because it is a part of a
continuous process to gain new knowledge and skills.
Teacher study groups are developed to create a comfortable “homespace”
where teachers collaborate with the purpose of helping one another.
Participants in the groups will focus on students, their practice and bigger
educational issues they may not understand.

3. HOW TO FORM THESE STUDY GROUPS?
1. School leaders can organize these study groups by putting
together teachers by grade level or subject.
2. Groups should be allowed to meet once a week or every other
week.
3. Each study group should have a group leader or facilitator to
plan where meetings will take place and to lay out what each
meeting will focus on that day. The facilitator should be well
trained in professional development to ensure the study group
is effective.
4. Facilitator should observe other teacher study groups to see
how they are conducted.

4. BENEFITS…
Teacher study groups are very beneficial for teachers,
administrators and students.
Student achievement is the primary focus of each group. Each
teacher in the group is learning to become more effective to
ensure the success of his/her students.
Administrators or school leaders are promoting more positive and
effective professional development through these learning
groups because teachers are learning from one another.
Administrators also create community sense of belonging and
increasing student success.

5. BENEFITS CONT’D…
These groups equip teachers with basic qualitative research
knowledge and skills to conduct participatory action research.
Teachers can share lesson planning ideas or specific classroom
activities during weekly meetings or discuss the positive and
negative parts of a project for the other educators to learn from.

6. ROLES WITHIN THE STUDY GROUP
Each study group should have leader.
Everyone in the group should be involved and present research
they have gathered.
Plan out what is to be discussed at each meeting so time is not
wasted and chaos minimized.
Principal or school leaders should receive reports and feedback
from each meeting.

7. WHAT TEACHERS AND EXPERTS ARE SAYING
ABOUT STUDY GROUPS..
A first grade teacher said, “Teacher Study Groups gave us the opportunity
to work and share with other teachers. The topics we covered were
exactly what I needed to be doing on a daily basis.”
Dr. Sharon Vaughn says, “During the Teacher Study Group, teachers will
acquire knowledge and skills that they will use repeatedly. The Teacher
Study Group process allows teachers to develop lessons that
incorporate instructional practices with a strong research base; they
learn 'how' to effectively teach.”
Ingram, Louis, and Schroeder (2004) report that teachers are more likely to
collect and use data systematically when working as a group.

8. CONCLUSION
Research has proven that teachers who collaborate are much more
effective than teachers that don’t. In order for teacher study groups to
be effective, everyone must be willing to learn, listen and share. It is a
continuous process but it is worth it all in the end.