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Teachers’ Knowledge Exchange and Sharing of Practices through the TLLP
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Teachers’ Knowledge Exchange and Sharing of Practices through the TLLP
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ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights five key lessons learned from the Teacher Learning and Leadership Program (TLLP) for approaches to a new model of professional development. TLLP recognizes teachers as developers and mobilizers of knowledge and provides teachers with a system to support their individual and collective learning for developing and sharing professional knowledge and practices. In addition to developing teachers' professional knowledge base and improving teaching practices, TLLP creates conditions for developing teachers' leadership capacity. What we learn from TLLP is that when teachers volunteer to lead a project, it is suggested that they work with others, manage money and time, and implement some kind of professional development; they learn leadership by doing leadership in authentic ways rather than through imposed programs. The new challenges of leading a TLLP project, the lessons of the discomfort of change, the tensions of leadership, and the work of resolving these tensions are given a new form for resolution and learning in TLLP.
