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Professional development

Professional development

Whole Teacher Approach

The best way to improve classroom instruction is to change what teachers believe and do — not just what they know. It’s the “whole teacher approach” to professional development. Just as the “whole child” concept supports effective early childhood teaching and learning, the whole teacher approach recognizes that the greatest impact comes by supporting all aspects of a teacher’s growth and development, including her attitudes, knowledge, and practice.

Knowledge+Attitude+Practice=Success!

We partner with schools, school districts, and organizations to provide a range of professional development services about early math. At the beginning of the partnership, we will work with you to structure the most effective professional development program based on your needs and funding. Our services could be one-year projects, one- or two-summer institutes, or intensive multi-year professional development projects. They could include working in-person, online, or both with teachers and instructional leaders or entire early childhood education programs.

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IL-EMPOWER

As of 2020 Erikson Institute is pleased to be an IL-EMPOWER Learning Partner. IL-EMPOWER is an Illinois State Board of Education program focused on providing resources needed to build capacity for continuous improvement to Illinois public schools. As an official vendor, Erikson Institute can provide qualifying schools the professional support they need to meet and exceed their learning goals. If you are an Illinois public school, please find out more and see if you qualify.

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Students’ attitudes have been extremely different. They are excited. They are verbal. They are expressing themselves in new ways. They now feel success where they hadn’t before.

Teacher Participant from Federico Garcia Lorca Elementary School 

Major components of our professional development

While our PD services are customized to the needs of individual school districts or networks, there are common components that we have years of experience implementing.

Learning labs

We provide interactive full- or part-day learning sessions in which early childhood teachers, trainers, or administrators gain understanding of the math content and math teaching strategies to improve core competencies.

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Instructional coaching

Coaches can play a central role in sustaining professional development at the school level by helping teachers become reflective about teaching and co-facilitating school-based meetings. It can include implementing research lessons, implementing 3-step coaching cycles, and coach-initiated grade-level meetings.

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Leadership academies

Leadership Academies help school administrators learn about Erikson’s approach to professional development, enhance their math knowledge and understanding, provide them with tools for classroom observation and conversations with teachers about instruction, and keep them informed about their teachers’ learning so they can support its implementation at their school.

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A Library of Ideas

Browse hundreds of articles, videos, modules, and discussions

In our Idea Library we have collected, categorized, and curated the best resources for early math thinking and teaching.

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