Science teachers Barbara McCoy and Lynda Ehlers, and student teacher Lauren Wilson, from Webb Middle School in Garland, Texas, share how they foster effective teacher collaboration during coinciding planning periods and active participation within new teacher mentoring.
Kristin Gray, a math specialist at Richard A. Shields Elementary in Lewes, Del., explains how teachers can use "time-outs," or spontaneous but strategic breaks from instruction, to get real-time feedback from colleagues during lessons.
Teachers work together to learn more about what quality lessons looks like under the Next Generation Science Standards. Through use of the NGSS EQuIP rubric, the teachers evaluate lessons and learn more the instructional shifts entailed in the new standards.
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