Evening Event for Grantees and Partners on High Quality Clinical Teaching of Advanced High School Mathematics and Science

The Trump Foundation will Host an Evening Dedicated to High Quality Teaching for Grantees and Partners

The Trump Foundation will Host an Evening Dedicated to High Quality Teaching for Grantees and PartnersEddie and Jules Trump Family Foundation

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Grant amount

NIS 130,000

Grant term

2 months

Date of Approval

September 2014

Status

Completed

Three years have passed since the Trump Foundation was established, and our portfolio of grants and projects is emerging and developing. With dozens of initiatives, our partner organizations are tackling a mutual goal of ensuring high quality instruction of mathematics and the sciences in order to increase the number of excelling students. We work with each of them independently in order to maintain high standards of planning and execution. However in order to achieve sustainable impact, they wish to learn from and collaborate with one another.

To this end, the foundation is gradually taking upon itself the role of convener, trying to help grantees to share knowledge and to create professional networks between their projects. We propose to use the upcoming meeting of the foundation’s Advisory Council to gather a special event which will create an opportunity for sharing and learning for our grantees and partners. The event will be dedicated to the components of clinical teaching, which include:

Using diagnostics in classrooms in order to help teachers to adapt their teaching to the learning progress of each student and to provide them with feedback;
Documenting and Analyzing classroom instruction using video in order to assist teachers in reflecting on their instruction and to focus it on student learning and thinking;
Creating professional communities of teachers which systematically review artifacts of student learning and classroom teaching in order to help teachers to jointly improve their practice;
Attracting highly talented people to the teaching profession and training them to adopt a clinical teaching approach and use clinical teaching tools;
Harnessing Master Teachers to serve as instructional coaches to guide professional learning communities, assist the integration of new teachers, and lead clinical practice in their schools.

The event will take place in Jerusalem on November 20^th, 2014, and over a period of approximately three hours will host round table discussions followed by lectures over dinner. 250 guests will be invited, including high ranked Ministry of Education executives, members of the foundation’s Advisory Council, grantees and teachers. In preparation for the event, we intend to ask an expert to prepare a literature review on clinical teaching to be circulated in advance between the participants.

* The text above shows the grant as approved by the Foundation’s Board of Directors / Grant 138

Vision & Mission

Advisory Council

Sustainable Infrastructure