PEBC Teacher Preparation & Professional Learning
PEBC is proud to help develop the intellectual and scholarly practices of educators across the continuum of their professional lives.
Teacher Preparation
The Colorado Boettcher Teacher Residency (CBTR) recruits and trains individuals to become exceptional teachers by providing an intensive and supportive teacher training program which combines master’s level coursework with hands-on learning in a K-12 classroom. Similar to the medical residency model, CBTR combines theory with a year-long apprenticeship under the guidance of an experienced and skilled Mentor Teacher who provides feedback and coaching. Residents are specially trained and endorsed to work with culturally and linguistically diverse students. Find out more about the Colorado Boettcher Teacher Residency.
Professional Development Practices
Our literacy framework for professional learning focuses on these research-based best practices that support the work of the Common Core Standards by
- Planning for understanding
- Building a classroom community of learners
- Implementing the workshop model of instruction
- Gradually releasing responsibility for learning to students
- Using thinking strategies across content to develop understanding
- Engaging students in high-level classroom discourse that builds understanding
- Assessing learning using formative assessments over time
- Meeting the needs of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners
- Math, Science and Social Studies pedagogy
PEBC provides professional learning by
- Facilitating whole-staff, small group, and one-on-one professional learning
- Facilitating learning through observations of lab classrooms
- Building capacity and sustainability of instructional coaches and teacher leaders
- Providing institutes and seminars
- Assisting school staff with the development of systems and structures for professional learning
- Coaching on leadership for principals and teacher leaders
- Aligning research-based instructional practices with state and national standards
Outcomes for Students
Students become self-directed learners. Students
- Take ownership for their learning
- Make meaning of challenging content
- Read for understanding
- Share their thinking orally and in writing
- Engage in classroom discourse
- Solve academic problems
- Collaborate with peers
- Reflect on their own thinking and understanding
- Seek assistance when confused