Learning Along the Way: Professional Development by and for Teachers

✍ Scribed by Diane Sweeney

Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 132
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Can your school or district improve its approach to building expertise among teachers, both those new to the profession and those interested in refining their craft? Diane Sweeney, currently a literacy specialist with the Public Education & Business Coalition, tells the story of how the inner-city public school in Denver where she was a teacher and literacy coach used learner-centered professional development to achieve outstanding gains in teacher knowledge and effectiveness.In Learning Along the Way, you will see concrete examples of how your school can move away from a one-size-fits-all professional development model to create an authentic learning environment that meets the needs of individual teachers. The book features chapters that focus on:implementing an instructional coaching model;establishing study groups among teachers;using observation as a means to model effective instruction;going deeper with discussion through the use of Critical Friends protocols;examining various ways adults process new information;encouraging teachers to take leadership roles;focusing the principal's leadership around the professional development model.Replete with real-life anecdotes and practical steps offered at the end of each chapter, this book will be useful to any teacher or administrator interested in rethinking the way they look at professional development.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
1. Principles of Professional Development......Page 12
Part One: Modeling and Observation......Page 28
2. Study Groups......Page 30
3. Understanding Through Observation......Page 38
4. Coaching Toward Implementation......Page 50
Part Two: Guided Practice......Page 62
5. Processing New Information to Make It Your Own......Page 64
6. Staying Grounded in Student Work......Page 72
Part Three: Independence......Page 86
7. Principal Leadership......Page 88
8. Teacher Leadership: Switching Roles......Page 98
9. Finding the Courage to Get There......Page 108
A Final Note......Page 113
Appendixes......Page 114
Bibliography......Page 124
F......Page 128
L......Page 129
R......Page 130
U......Page 131
W......Page 132

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