Improving Motivation, Engagement and Differentiation in Lesson Development Using an Interactive White Board: 10-hour Workshop Cycle Toward Professional Development Certificate

The School of Education prepares aspiring teachers for teaching in 21st century classrooms by offering intensive interactive white board training cycles. In designing interactive lessons, the workshop cycle focuses on the pedagogical decision making that can improve classroom teaching and student engagement and understanding

ePortfolios and Our Candidates’ Professional Journeys

Lehman College School of Education ePortfolios enhance student learning through reflective practice, integrative learning and social pedagogy. ePortfolios create a space for our candidates to develop their professional identity; connect to professional standards; evaluate their strengths and weaknesses; deepen understandings of continuous learning; speak clearly about their philosophies and beliefs; and think critically about their practice

Collecting & Infusing Locally Relevant Video to Support Teacher Learning

Context: Although online teaching videos are easy to find, few demonstrate locally relevant models for our aspiring teachers. Lehman College School of Education began a project in Fall 2014 to collect locally relevant video of teaching and student learning to demonstrate key practices in the field. We identified classrooms of highly competent program graduates as well as Professional Development Network Schools (PDS) teachers working in classrooms with co-teaching models and/or work with English Language Learners. 6 teachers and 2 literacy coaches from our Bronx public school PDS classrooms welcomed us to videotape teaching and student learning. Teachers and Lehman College faculty liaisons collected student consent forms, organized lesson plans, collected student work and allowed a Lehman College video team (Bronx Net funded by MATH-UP) into classrooms for 1 – 3 lessons in a unit. We’ve collected approximately 55 hours of video footage