Thursday, April 14, 2011: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
125 (Convention Center)
Lead Speaker:
Annette Ricks Leitze
Co-Speaker:
Oliver F. Jenkins
The speakers will share a model using professional collaboration among teachers to develop instruction through problem solving in grades K–8 classrooms. The collaboration performed lesson "face lifts" to transform low-cognitive-demand lessons into ones with high cognitive demand. The speakers will describe several techniques the teachers used and successes and concerns that the teachers faced.
Presentation Format: Preservice and In-Service Session
Grade Band Audience: Higher Education, Preservice and Inservice