These heuristics are key to describing CLIMB as a collaborative apprenticeship, a term we use to emphasize the importance of collaboration, a feature that is often missing from more traditional research apprenticeships.
In addition to the model, we discuss various influences related to affect, beliefs, environment, culture, cognition, and personality that characterize the nature of reciprocal interactions in order to stimulate collaborative apprenticeship.
We propose a collaborative apprenticeship model featuring reciprocal interactions as an approach to promote professional development, encouraging peer-teachers to serve as modelers and coaches of strategies and ideas aimed at improving instruction.
collaborative apprenticeship is designed to help teachers learn and implement new teaching skills and strategies through four development phases, beginning with implementation of best practices from a mentor to the development of their own.
This has led the project team to plan for teacher-only professional development in collaborative inquiry through cognitive apprenticeship, as a part of the summer institute.
The 2017 SMART institute applied the lessons learned from the previous institutes and greatly expanded its teacher professional development component with the "cognitive apprenticeship through collaborative inquiry" model.
The collaborative has not stopped at apprenticeship training and job placement.
Within Emerald Cities Atlanta the Trade-Up apprenticeship track supports a collaborative pipeline that coordinates the efforts of organized labor, community groups, technical colleges, local government, and private business to balance training and skill development with projections of actual market demand.
Jeff serves on the Board of Directors of The Edward J. Malloy Initiative for Construction Skills (formerly Construction Skills 2000), a highly effective pre-apprenticeship program based in New York City, and on the Board of Directors of the Emerald Cities Collaborative, based in Washington DC.
The apprenticeship offers a unique chance to learn about collection research, museums, online publication, operating in a collaborative environment and with cutting-edge digital humanities tools and perspectives.
