Montpelier High School: Restructuring the Educational Experience – Montpelier, VT
Successful implementation of work-related education reforms in
the United States requires educators to understand both reform
principles and the ways in which work-based and school-based
learning can be used to enhance curriculum and instruction. This
document is part of Teacher learning in the workplace and
community, which contains four educational briefs and five
case studies that describe innovative teacher education and
professional development programs that support school-to-work and
related reforms.
Professional Development Schools (PDS) are intended to improve
the education of preservice teachers through a collaborative
partnership between schools and teacher education programs based
in colleges or universities. Montpelier High School (MHS) and the
University of Vermont (UVM) have developed a collaborative
partnership in the form of a PDS. The program is designed to
enable preservice teachers from UVM to become actively involved
in the school during an internship. This case study describes the
model PDS structure involving collaboration between a school and
a postsecondary teacher education program.
Pribbenow, C. M., & Sargent, T. (1998, March). Montpelier High School: Restructuring the educational experience – Montpelier, VT. In Teacher Learning in the Workplace and Community. Berkeley, CA: National Center for Research in Vocational Education.