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UFT Teacher Center training on Danielson Framework for Teaching
Principals, teachers working together
Miller Photography
Principal Gentile and Chapter Leader Silver of the HS for Health Professions and Human Services work together at the training.
Miller Photography Teacher Center staffer Rita Danis addresses the group.
Miller Photography Teacher Victoria Curto of PS 180, Manhattan, asks a question while teacher Michael Lee of PS 282, Brooklyn, looks on.
Hundreds of chapter leaders and administrators turned out in January for UFT Teacher Center-led training sessions in Queens and Manhattan on the Danielson Framework for Teaching. With the encouragement of their union, principals showed up in large numbers. The UFT uninvited the DOE after the mayor attacked the union in his State of the City address. Working in teams, chapter leaders and principals from Manhattan schools on Jan. 24 discussed the elements of an ideal classroom and learned more about the framework pioneered by educator Charlotte Danielson. “This is important because the school’s principal and teachers get to work together,” said Robert Gentile, the principal of the HS for Health Professions and Human Services, at the Manhattan session. “It’s new, so we want to make sure we are using it effectively.” Sitting beside Gentile, the school’s chapter leader, Linda Silver, added, “We want to be on the same page, so what he says I can back up — or tell him he’s wrong!” Teachers and principals said they liked the rubrics and came because they wanted to understand them better. “I want to be sure I have the information to make a successful transition,” said another principal. “Chapter leaders and principals are clearly committed to building a shared understanding of the Danielson Framework for Teaching,” said UFT Vice President for Education Catalina Fortino. “We hope these sessions will clear up the misunderstandings that have been perpetrated by the DOE about what the framework is really about.” The UFT will be holding similar training sessions for chapter leaders and principals from the Staten Island, the Bronx and Brooklyn.
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