Faculty Cohort Program

The Faculty Cohort program, the backbone of the Center for Teaching, is a team of teachers from The Westminster Schools and Drew Charter School. The primary goal of the Cohort is to create a mutually beneficial learning environment for experienced teachers that focuses on best practices in teaching. Information exchange, collaboration on action-research projects, discussion of educational issues central to teaching and learning, and shared professional development experiences represent some of the Cohort’s work. MOODLE, a software package for online communication, is utilized to document and archive the Cohort’s work. The relationships among Cohort faculty are designed to exchange professional resources and inform classroom practice.

The Cohort is a yearlong collaborative process in which the group meets twice a month. One of the monthly meetings is a daylong event in which the Cohort focuses on a substantive educational issue. Members of the group have studied and discussed the current findings from the brain-based learning field, models for curriculum design and technology integration, the teacher-as-leader, and the implications of improving assessment strategies in the classroom. This program offers a wonderful opportunity to collaborate with colleagues around the important work that is central to our growth as professionals. Faculty earn professional learning units (PLUs)and a stipend for the year’s work at the Center for Teaching.

Faculty Cohort Application

Faculty Cohort Action Research Information