MLT's teacher learning initiatives recognize the pivotal role of teacher education and are based
on these core principles:
- Effective professional
development improves teachers' content knowledge, instructional decision
making, professional judgment, and leadership skills.
- Teachers must be
actively engaged in their own content learning.
- Effective professional
development is closely connected to classroom practice.
- Teachers benefit
from work with colleagues who can question, challenge, support, and
provide a network of resources for each other.
Our work includes research
to identify factors that foster teacher learning; the design, production,
and evaluation of professional development materials; and helping educators
to become effective staff developers.
