Professional Learning Redefined: An Evidence-Based Guide

✍ Scribed by Isabel Sawyer, Dr. Marisa Ramirez Stukey

• Publisher: Corwin
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 153
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

You’ve just found your new comprehensive guide to designing powerful professional learning!

Full of protocols, vignettes, and case studies, this book dissects elements of professional learning, like coherence, connections, and content, and examines each through an evidence-based lens. Destined to become a go-to resource for anyone in a teacher-support role, this book analyzes research from the past 25 years on what makes professional learning work. In addition to focusing on the often-neglected role of the facilitator itself, other features include:

• A multi-year implementation framework to improve instructional practice
• Planning tools to shift instruction at the school and district level
• Techniques and strategies to embed content-based learning for all educators

 

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Tool Index
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Chapter 1-Learning in the Teaching Profession
Chapter 2-Learning Within Content
Chapter 3-Elements of Learning
Chapter 4-Learning Structures
Chapter 5-Lead Learner
Chapter 6-Connecting the Learning
Appendix 1-Curricular Resource Planning Tool
Appendix 2-Planning for a Brief Professional Learning Session
Appendix 3-Reflecting on Effective Elements of Professional Learning
Appendix 4-Four Corners (20–30 minutes)
Appendix 5-Compass Points (20–30 minutes)
Appendix 6-Setting Norms (30–40 minutes)
Appendix 7-Chalk Talk (20–30 minutes)
Appendix 8-Quote Cards (20–30 minutes)
Appendix 9-Philosophical Chairs (20–30 minutes)
Appendix 10-Consultancy Protocol (30–60 minutes)
Appendix 11-Final Word (approx. 45 minutes)
Appendix 12-Archetypal Spaces for Learning
Appendix 13-Preparing for and Debriefing a Demonstration Lesson (20–30 minutes)
Appendix 14-Planning for a Twitter Chat
Appendix 15-PDSA Cycle
Appendix 16-Questions to Ask While Planning
Appendix 17-Planning the Change Process
Appendix 18-Planning for Sustained Professional Learning
References
Index