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Powerful Professional Development
Building Expertise Within the Four Walls of Your School
Edited by:
- Diane Yendol-Hoppey - University of North Florida, USA
- Nancy Fichtman Dana - University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Foreword by Stephanie Hirsh
Other Titles in:
Continuing Professional Development | Designing & Evaluating Staff Development | Team Building
Continuing Professional Development | Designing & Evaluating Staff Development | Team Building
April 2010 | 200 pages | Corwin
In this volume, bestselling authors Diane Yendol-Hoppey and Nancy Fichtman Dana have crafted an essential guide to job-embedded professional development (PD) and demonstrate how educators can strengthen teacher learning without breaking the budget.
Rather than advocating a specific method, Powerful Professional Development: Building Expertise Within the Four Walls of Your School presents a full toolbox of professional development strategies with suggestions for implementation and recommendations about which tools to use at different times and in different contexts. Using this comprehensive resource, schools can move away from the traditional model of professional development that relies on outside experts, and instead draw on and develop the skills and talents of their own faculty.
Covering a range of approaches and techniques and sharing examples of lessons learned from schools and districts that have cultivated these approaches successfully, the authors describe and evaluate a full spectrum of models of job-embedded PD, including
- Book study
- Webinars
- Co-teaching
- Open space technology
- Lesson study
- Action research
- Coaching
- Professional learning communities
- Online communities, and more.
Foreword, by Stephanie Hirsh
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Part I. What Is Powerful Job-Embedded Profressional Development, and How Can You Make It Happen?
1. Cultivating Professional Development From Inside the Four Walls of Your School
2. Creating Space and Reconceptualizing Roles for Job-Embedded PD: Building the Back Porch
3. Thinking Outside the Clock and Inside the Budget: How to Find Time and Money for Job-Embedded PD
Part II. The Professional Development Toolbox: Strategies to Actualize Powerful Professional Development
4. Book Studies, Webinars, Podcasts, and Online Video Libraries
5. Research-in-Action and Coteaching
6. Conversation Tools: Protocols, Open Space Technology, and the Knowledge Cafe
7. Lesson Study
8. Teacher Inquiry/Action Research
9. Coaching Models: Peer, Culturally Responsive, and Content Focused
10. Professional Learning Communities
Part III. Using Your Toolbox: Tips for Developing a Successful Job-Embedded, Professional Development Program
11. Making the Match: Aligning Data and the Right Tools With Your Particular Needs
12. Effective Professional Development Within Your School Walls: Lessons Learned
References and Additional Reading
Index
