Lab Class: Professional Learning Through Collaborative Inquiry and Student Observation

Lisa Cranston

Meaningful growth in teacher practice comes when we invest in teacher-led, inquiry-based collaborative models where teachers get to roll up their sleeves and study what’s really going on in classrooms.

Lab Class introduces an observation-based professional learning design that helps teachers collaboratively plan, investigate, and develop solutions to a specific problem of practice by observing a host teacher’s classroom through the eyes of students. Close the knowing-doing gap by bringing professional learning out of workshops and back where it belongs – in the classroom!

Published: Corwin, 2018