Laura+Neu

Hi group members! Welcome to my page!

Here are some articles that I found about support and staff development, I hope that they are helpful:

1) **Title**: "Link Between Faculty Group Development and Elementary Student Performance on Standardized Tests"


 * Summary**: This article is about how the author explored various elementary schools. All of the staff members had to take a "Group Developmental Questionnaire." This questionnaire figured out the developmental level of work groups. The author discovered that the staff members who worked together influenced the students outcomes positively.


 * Link**: [|Article Page]

2) **Title**: "Teachers Talking Together: The Power of Professional Community"


 * Summary**: This article is about various things that teachers and a school did together. Since the teachers and staff worked together it influenced the students and made them do better in school. Some things that the teachers and staff did together were training classes, meetings, co-teaching, etc. Having the teachers and staff work together it developed emotional bonds and friendships.


 * Link**: [|Article Page 2]

3) **Title**: "The Growth of Higher Educators for Social Justice: Collaborative Professional Development in Higher Education"


 * Summary**: This article had to do with having the collaboration of high education teachers. The article spoke about how usually higher education teachers are isolated and don't really interact much with other teachers. Because of that, they want the teachers to speak and interact more with one another. So to increase interaction, teachers of different subject areas met and discussed various issues in social justice.


 * Link**: [|Article Page 3]

4) **Title**: Putting Research in the Collaborative Hands of Teachers and Researchers: An Alternative to Traditional Staff Development"


 * Summary**: This article spoke about how the traditional staff developments usually consisted of presentations, lectures, workshops, etc. There staff developments usually don't involved the needs and concerns of the individual teachers. Instead there needs to be staff development with more interaction among teachers. There should be activities that the teachers can get involved in and do. In this article, they do collaborative work between researchers and teachers. Teachers see more results in his or her students when it related back to the teacher.


 * Link**: [|Article Page 4]

Here is my paper on support and staff development. If you guys have any comments or suggestions let me know!

Here is the reference page so far. I need to add Kindra's and Josh's references but need to talk to you both before I do.