Topic: Improving Teaching.

10-second review: How help teachers grow in their profession? Schedule study groups among teachers on particular problems and topics. Provide professional reading materials dealing with the topic or problem.

Source: C Cobb. Reading Teacher (February 2005), 472-474. A publication of the International Reading Association (IRA).

Comment: That was always my method in conducting workshops, whether in the “Teacher Center” or in the summer workshops. Discussion of the problem was followed by consulting professional materials. Solution to the problem was always embodied in lesson plans to be tried and evaluated in the classroom. RayS.