Titles
Structures
Curriculum
People
Core Competencies
100

It's what we call our students at the Graduate School

What are teacher candidates?

100
Teacher candidates use the Innovator's Compass to explore real problems of teaching practice in this weekly exercise

What is a clinical debrief?


100

One of our three foundational challenges, this challenge focuses on ways that teachers establish relationships of trust within their classrooms.

What is Classroom Culture?

100

She's the president of the WW Graduate School

Who is Deborah Hirsch?

100

This competency asks TCs to demonstrate their ability to forge connections with individual kids

What is "Building Relationship With Students"?

200

Look in the mirror: this is the name for your position at the GS

What is a learning design coach

200

At the Graduate School, TCs proceed through the curriculum by submitting solutions to these.

What are challenges?

200

This foundational challenge focuses on creating units and lessons aligned to a major concept in one's discipline.

What is Making Big Ideas Real?

200

This tall glass of water is the Chief Academic Officer of the WWGSTL

Who is Peter Laipson?

200

This competency requires that TCs show the ability to forge healthy and productive relationships between and among members of a classroom.

What is "Creating a Culture of Trust"?

300
This is our name for WWGSTL teaching staff
What are faculty mentors?
300

On Monday afternoons, TCs engage in challenge-based learning experience during this program element.

What is Practicum?

300

This challenge helps teacher candidates learn different ways of evaluating students' work.

What is Assessment?

300
The Faculty Mentor in Science, she used to run the Science Club for Girls

Who is Connie Chow?

300

This competency asks students to show they can identify user needs and create solutions through experimentation and rapid prototyping.

What is "Thinking Like a Designer"?

400

This our collaborator in the creation of the WW Grad School

What is MIT?

400

Each week, teacher candidates gather to debrief their work and hear from guest speakers during this time.

What is Studio?

400

This challenge teaches TCs ways to effectively engage their students in group work.

What is Facilitating Collaborative Learning?

400

A new mom, she's the Grad School's Faculty Mentor in Mathematics

Who is Anjali Deshpande

400

This competency requires that students show their understanding of the challenges facing underserved students and how to address them.

What is "Teaching for Justice"?

500

You know him as Des Floyd, but we call him by this title

What is Director of Clinical Learning and Educator Development?

500

Twice a year, certain competencies that are not evaluated through challenges are evaluated through this.

What is a portfolio?

500

This challenge, a requirement for SEI endorsement at the Graduate School, provides TCs the skills they need to work with English language learners.

What is STEM Literacy?

500

A member of Olin College's founding class, she's now the Director of Program Design

Who is Julianna Stockton?

500

This competency requires that TCs inform their practice with knowledge from psychology, cognitive science, and brain science.

What is "Grounding Practice in the Science of Learning and Development"?
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