Transcript Global Cities Education Network A network of Asian and North American city education systems designed to collaboratively identify, examine, and adapt internationally benchmarked.

Global Cities Education Network
A network of Asian and North American city education
systems designed to collaboratively identify, examine,
and adapt internationally benchmarked solutions to
common problems of practice.
Denver
Houston
Lexington
Seattle
Toronto
Hong Kong
Melbourne
Seoul
Shanghai
Singapore
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Global Cities Education Network
Goals of Working Group on Scaling Up Effective
21stCentury Teaching
•Understand how a range of GCEN cities, including Shanghai,
are creating systemic processes and structures of professional
learning for teachers to continuously improve teaching and
learning
•Understand the forms of professional learning cites are
implementing to help teachers acquire pedagogies needed to
develop students’ 21stcentury skills
•Develop initial strategies for further collaborative and
individual work toward development of a plan for systemic
improvements in their professional learning systems
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Lessons Learned
1. Every teacher is consistently involved in collaboration with
other teachers at his/her school aimed at improving student
learning.
2. The education system provides or creates access to
effective professional learning opportunities for all teachers
in addition to school-based collaborative learning.
3. Every teacher is provided sufficient time during their
regularly compensated working hours to engage in
professional learning.
4. Teachers’ ongoing professional learning is incentivized
through well-articulated career ladders.
5. The school system incentivizes the recruitment and
retention of effective teachers new to the system.
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Lessons Learned
6. The school system leverages partnerships with institutions
of higher learning and relevant workplaces to support
teachers’ professional learning.
7. School and teacher leaders, middle managers and system
leaders are all engaged in regular, structured collaborative
learning with peers focused on problems of practice
relevant to their position within the school system.
8. The school system supports, incentivizes, and rewards
teachers’ efforts to thoughtfully develop and test
pedagogical innovations.
9. The school system deploys a process for evaluating
teachers’ performance and growth geared primarily toward
providing feedback that is useful in improving the teacher’s
pedagogical capacity and the learning of students
specifically in his/her school.
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