National Louis University used TREK to introduce a technology-supported, field-focused model where teacher candidates learn high-impact teaching practices through virtual observation, coaching and analysis to improve experiential classroom performance. TREK brings the ACT model to life, and helps create highly competent and resilient professionals.
NLU Video: http://www.cognitiveadvisors.com/client-success-national-louis-university
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Pilot Results
The impact on our students is profound.
They really feel completely prepared to go in as
first year teachers and to be able to say,
“I know exactly what I want to accomplish with
the kids.”
They feel much clearer about what they can do
and need to do when they get their own
classrooms.
What I’m seeing is a broader, deeper
understanding of these practices and a
confidence. - NLU Professor
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• Transformation of Teacher Education
• Now rolling out to all Teacher Ed
Programs
• Won Department of Education Grant
– Analytics – tie to student outcomes
– More robust mentoring process
– Tie to industry standard competencies
• In Service Professional Development
• Better Teachers = Successful Students!
Impact
12. NLU Video of Pilot Outcomes
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http://www.cognitiveadvisors.com/client-success-national-
louis-university
National Louis University’s National College of Education prepares teachers in the Chicago Area. They have found that teachers that go into the tough schools in Chicago’s south or west sides often burn out within 2 years. They don’t learn the real stuff of how to teach in those schools.
A big part of the problem is that the student teaching process – where the real learning happens --is haphazard and not coordinated with the rest of the program. The mentor teachers are not sure how to best coach the student teacher. There is little alignment between the practicum and methods classes and the field work.
How do we transform teacher training to develop better teachers more quickly?
The goal is to help student teachers develop adaptive expertise. Flexible ways of teaching students. How is this learned? Through experience, reflection on that experience, and coaching by mentor teachers. But in the field it is haphazard.
We developed this by visiting schools in tough neighborhoods in Chicago, observing and interviewing teachers.
Work with professors to develop this curriculum. Based on educational research and real work experience.
How to set up at way to have a systematic set of experiences to optimize the path to adaptive expertise.?
They used the TREK Learning Experience Manager – a mobile cloud-based web responsive application powered by xAPI – to manage an track the field based learning process and support coaching and reflection.