On LabNet, teachers share resources, vignettes about teaching, success stories, and challenges they face. Network facilitators keep these conversations focused on teaching and learning, while nurturing collegial connections. The moderators work to promote rich and stimulating professional discourse. Teachers described activities and assessment tools that had worked in their own classrooms including student interviews and learning logs. Maine LabNet helps teachers feel they are part of a connected professional community.
Teachers support one another as they make decisions about curriculum, instruction, and assessment.
This electronic network offers contact with teachers experienced in bringing inquiry pedagogy and constructivist teaching to the science and mathematics classroom. Maine LabNet is supported and sponsored by the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance. T visitors can post questions about math teaching. Questions are answered by a panel of teachers who have been named Presidential Awardees for Excellence in Mathematics Teaching. Online visitors can browse through the archive of T2T answers and participate in public discussions surrounding these issues.