collaborate
Partnership
At PennGSE, collaboration with partners honors our commitments to scholarship, to teaching, and to service. PennGSE’s extensive network of partnerships affords student teachers broad and deep opportunities to reflect on both local and global perspectives on teaching.
Our deep commitment to urban children and their families is grounded in the recognition that Philadelphia’s neighborhoods are inextricably linked to schools and student learning. By design, both the elementary and secondary programs begin with a close observation of neighborhood school communities, meeting with and learning from community leaders, teachers, parents, school administrators and school students. Student teachers spend time in the school community during the summer, getting to know playgrounds, libraries, day care centers, recreation centers, convenience stores and other neighborhood facilities. Because we want student teachers to understand that learning often takes place outside the formal school setting, student teachers, who begin the program in the summer, are engaged with local young people working with local agencies that facilitate out of school learning in the summer.
Because partnership is so intrinsic to our programs’ values and core beliefs, we introduce you to the ways in which we demonstrate our commitment to collaboration. In so doing, we hope to demonstrate and model for our student teachers a way of being open to and learning from diverse perspectives, experiences, values and ways of being in the world.
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