Throughout this chapter Wagner discusses his own experience with his credential program and professional development and a professional development that he has run in the past. One thing that he talks about with his own professional development that he has run is that a list of ten priorities is basically equivalent to having a list of no priorities as it is too unfocused to be able to really be accomplished. I think that this is a very important point, that we need to ensure that we are focused in the way that we are trying to improve our schools and that we make sure that that goal is the most important one that we can think of. This also holds very true with our individual teaching practices, if we try to take on too much at once we will never be able to truly improve, whereas if we are focusing on smaller parts of our teaching practice we will be able to improve our teaching practices a whole lot more; this is something that we have discussed multiple times in the program. Another thing that he discussed throughout this chapter is that there seems to be a general taboo of sorts against collaboration with other teachers. We do not go and observe other teachers' classes, nor do we have others observe our classes. This means that it is difficult for us to be able to improve as the best way to improve our teaching practices would be to work together since we are all already probably facing similar problems, or we have faced similar problems in the past. Fortunately we have been able to talk with the professors, our colleges, and our master teachers to figure out solutions to problems that we hav encountered in our practices. I cannot remember many times when either I have gone to my colleges or others have come to me with problems we have experienced and we have worked together to be able to
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Andrew PrimesMath Student Teacher working at Rancho Buena Vista High School Archives
May 2015
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