One core challenge of learning to teach is learning to learn from experience.  It is one thing to have an experience—or to witness the experience of someone else—and  another thing to learn from that experience while doing so.  Because the Adolescent Development class occurs in the first semester of my students' professional preparation year, I decided to spend some time at the beginning of the semester talking about learning from practice—in  this instance, from the practice of others.

I began by introducing students to two Carnegie Teacher Scholars—Claire Bove and Marsha Pincus.  We spent class time collaboratively studying the teaching of these two veteran colleagues.  By clicking on the pictures below you can get a sense of how the work unfolded as we studied each teacher’s practice.