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Excellence in Teaching: Agenda for Partnership Video
This 36-minute video examines the annual seminar process in the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, a long-running educational partnership between Yale University and the New Haven Public Schools that puts teachers and teaching at the center for school reform. The Institute serves as a model to strengthen teaching and learning in local schools and, by example and direct assistance, in high-need schools across the country. Yale faculty members present seminars that provide up-to-date information on topics in the sciences and humanities and work as colleagues with New Haven school teachers. Each participating teacher becomes an Institute Fellow, studies the seminar subject, and prepares a curriculum unit on that subject to be taught the following year. Teachers have primary responsibility for identifying the subjects the Institute addresses. The film highlights the process, beginning with the planning of seminars (in October and November) and the applications of teachers (in January and February), continuing through the seminar meetings and the writing, testing, and revision of curriculum units (from March through July), and concluding with the classroom use of those units during the following year. The program also includes comments on the Institute process and its results by a wide range of participants and observers: students, teachers, and administrators in the New Haven school system; members of the Yale University faculty; and persons active in nationally known educational organizations such as the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Program Director: Robert J. Wyman, Ph.D.
Award Years: 1989, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006
Summary: Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Its HHMI-funded initiatives include:
- Increasing diversity in the sciences through its flagship STARS (Science, Technology and Research Scholars) Program, which has been nationally recognized for its success in fostering ethnic minority students on their way to science degrees and biomedical careers;
- Improving the quality of teacher training through programs such as the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, which invites teachers to participate in seminars where they create new curricula, and Yale’s Teacher Preparation Program, which trains new science teachers; and
- Offering summer residential programs with classes and labs for inner-city high school students, and providing science enrichment in city schools through DEMOS, a program that encourages Yale students to volunteer in school enrichment activities, science demonstrations in the elementary and middle schools and science and math research teams in the upper grades.