Short teacher trainings fail to produce durable environmental teaching proficiency

Evidence

Research by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation concluded that short-term teacher trainings didn’t translate into better environmental teachers or improved student behaviors in school. They now have a two-day minimum for curriculum trainings and most of their teacher workshops are a week long. Also, they realized that residential training programs intimidated teachers who weren’t early adopters, so they decided to offer multiday, but not overnight, programs closer to the urban areas where many teach. — David Sobel, Place-Based Education, 103

Categorization

• XREF: Empirical grounding relevant to the reader’s teacher-training design decisions at Hamline. — connects to: Classroom visits are the most effective form of teacher professional development — David Sobel, Place-Based Education: Connecting…, 105; Teacher adoption requires repeated exposure across existing institutional settings; Teacher-led workshops and classroom visits outperform expert-led training for changing teaching practice. — David Sobel, Place-Based Education: Connecting…, 105 (+5 more)
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Related

• Teacher adoption requires repeated exposure across existing institutional settings (similarity 0.85)
• Effective teacher professional development requires repeated varied exposure and piggybacks onto existing structures. (similarity 0.82)
• Classroom visits are the most effective form of teacher professional development (similarity 0.79)
• Teacher-led workshops and classroom visits outperform expert-led training for changing teaching practice. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Educational reform fails when it changes curricula rather than the social complex producing teachers #expands (0.82) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 355
• Listener training improves performance plateau after only four sessions. #contradicts (0.75)
• Children’s apprenticeship-of-observation transmits teacher bias along with pedagogy #corroborates (0.72)