Full Description
You've just found your new comprehensive guide to designing powerful professional learning!
Maybe you've run out of fresh ideas to help teachers improve their instructional practice. Maybe you need some help to feel as though your PLCs, coaching and workshops are making an impact. You've picked up the right book!
Isabel Sawyer and Marisa Ramirez-Stukey have studied the research on effective professional learning from the past 25 years and distilled these findings into this practical guide for the numerous roles of educators charged with supporting teachers. Readers will learn to construct a multi-year implementation framework and also
Facilitative techniques that support powerful professional learning
Planning tools to shift instruction at the school and district level
Functional characteristics of a successful facilitator able to combine content and context of learning
Full of protocols, strategies, and case studies, this book dissects the key components of professional learning, like coherence, connections, and content, and examines each through an evidence-based lens.
Contents
Preface
About the Authors
Publisher's Acknowledgements
Tool Index
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
References
Appendix
