WIDE World

Learners' Stories

The WIDE World Team Experience

"Last winter, my Director of Instructional Programs presented an opportunity for teachers from my school district to take an online math course offered by WIDE World at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. There was a new twist involved in this course offering. You had to sign up to work with a team of teachers from your own school, and speak online in one voice..."

Read more! My View (Autumn 2005) - PDF file

Understanding Down Under

"Enthusiasm must be very contagious! I'm sure that it was the enthusiasm of our new Head of Middle School, Peter Dry, which had me agreeing to be a part of the first wave of enrollees in WIDE World's Teaching for Understanding 1 (TfU 1) online course, along with my fellow teachers at Huntingtower, a co-ed, Prep to Year 12 school in Melbourne, Australia..."

How to Coach Others

"I work as the Coordinator of Science and Math at the Benjamin Banneker Charter School in Cambridge, MA. With a dedicated math and science staff of one - me - I take on many coaching and staff development responsibilities to support the growth and development of the staff. I have held similar positions in the past but had what I now recognize as the luxury of being supported by a team of others. The relative isolation of my present position led me to crave a larger intellectual community that shared my commitment to providing high-quality coaching and staff development in their schools or districts. I wanted to learn from others how to improve my approach towards my own profession..."

Read more! My View (Fall 2006) - PDF file


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