Full Description
Generate multifaceted solutions to real-life classroom issues with this innovative, research-based approach to the design and delivery of sustained, collaborative, evidence-informed, and student-focused professional learning.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Roots
Root #1: Adopting an Evaluative Inquiry Stance
Root #2: Valuing and Using Deep Conceptual Knowledge
Root #3: Being Agentic
Root #4: Being Aware of Cultural Positioning
Root #5: Being Metacognitive
Root #6: Bringing a Systemic Focus
Chapter 2: The Trunk
Exercise #1: Trunk: Responsiveness through Relationships with a Generative Improvement Orientation
Chapter 3: Branches and Leaves
Branch 1: Purpose and Focus
DAF #1: Clarifying Purpose
DAF #2: Focusing on Valued Student Outcomes
DAF #3: Building Coherence
DAF #4: Creating Commitment and Taking Action
Branch 2: Knowledge and Inquiry
DAF #5: Deepening Knowledge
DAF #6: Using Evidence Critically
DAF #7: Using Focused and Deep Collaborative Inquiry
Branch 3: Effective Learning Processes
DAF #8: Surfacing and Engaging Theories and Beliefs
DAF #9: Navigating Perceptions of Risk
DAF #10: Developing Self-Regulation
DAF #11: Providing Appropriate Support and Challenge
DAF #12: Co-constructing Learning
Chapter 4: Facilitating Improvement
Facilitating Improvement and Adaptive Expertise
How Does Adaptive Expertise Fit With Other Forms of Expertise?
Developing Your Own Adaptive Expertise
Developing Adaptive Expertise in Others
Putting It All Together
Research Appendix
References
