‘I love, love, love this book! This smorgasbord of professional development strategies maximizes time and on-site expertise. From the perspective of educators hungry for cost-effective, proven ways to promote ongoing, job-embedded professional learning, this is an à la carte menu for building healthy professional development ′meals′ based on specific needs and available resources.’
—Gail Ritchie, Instructional Coach
Fairfax County Public Schools, VA
‘This book offers a menu of practical, integrated, research-based tools and processes that engage and empower teachers and administrators in co-constructing a powerful form of job-embedded professional development that is relevant, focused, and organic, and allows schools to transform themselves into a self-sustaining learning organization.’
—Pedro R. Bermúdez, Professional Development Support
Ready Schools Miami, FL
Achieve effective, on-site teacher development without breaking the budget!
This essential guide to job-embedded staff development helps schools and districts move away from reliance on outside expertise, instead drawing on and developing the experience and skills of their own faculty. The authors provide a complete toolbox of school-based professional development (PD) strategies, with recommendations on which tools to use for different times and settings, guidelines for implementation, and extended examples of each tool in action for a full spectrum of proven, cost-effective PD models, including:
- Book study and lesson study
- Action research and professional learning communities
- Coaching and co-teaching
- Webinars, podcasts, Open Space Technology, online communities, and much more
Table of Content
Foreword, by Stephanie HirshPreface
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
So What Is Job-Embedded Professional Development?
What Are the Building Blocks for Job-Embedded Professional Development?
An Example: What Did Mrs. Oublier Teach Us About Building Professional Knowledge That Facilitates Change?
Concluding Thoughts
Additional Resources
2. Creating Space and Reconceptualizing Roles for Job-Embedded PD: Building the Back Porch
What Exactly Is a School′s Back Porch?
Who Is on the Back Porch? Roles and Responsibilities
What Is a Teacher Leader?
What Is the Role of the Principal?
Concluding Thoughts
Additional Resources
3. Thinking Outside the Clock and Inside the Budget: How to Find Time and Money for Job-Embedded PD
Finding Time
Finding Money
How to Use Time and Money Creatively
An Example: Finding Time and Money for Job-Embedded PD
Concluding Thoughts
Additional Resources
Part II. The Professional Development Toolbox: Strategies to Actualize Powerful Professional Development
4. Book Studies, Webinars, Podcasts, and Online Video Libraries
Definition: Book Study
Definitions: Webinar, Podcasts, and Online Video Library
Illustration: From Book Study to Webinar and Back Again
What Have We Learned?
Some Things to Think About
Additional Resources
5. Research-in-Action and Coteaching
Definition: Research-in-Action
Illustration: Research-in Action
Definition: Coteaching
Illustration: Coteaching?Lead and Support
Illustration: Coteaching?Parallel Teaching
What Have We Learned?
Some Things to Think About
Additional Resources
6. Conversation Tools: Protocols, Open Space Technology, and the Knowledge Cafe
Definition: Conversation Tools
Illustration: Conversation Tools
What Have We Learned?
Some Things to Think About
Additional Resources
7. Lesson Study
Definition: Lesson Study
Illustration: Lesson Study
What Have We Learned?
Some Things to Think About
Additional Resources
8. Teacher Inquiry/Action Research
Definition: Teacher Inquiry/Action Research
Illustration: Teacher Inquiry/Action Research
What Have We Learned?
Some Things to Think About
Additional Resources
9. Coaching Models: Peer, Culturally Responsive, and Content Focused
Definition: Coaching
Illustration: Peer Coaching
Illustration: Culturally Responsive Coaching
Illustration: Content-Focused Coaching
What Have We Learned?
Some Things to Think About
Additional Resources
10. Professional Learning Communities
Definition: Professional Learning Community
Illustration: Inquiry-Oriented PLC
What Have We Learned?
Some Things to Think About
Additional Resources
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
What Factors Should I Consider in the Matchmaking Process?
Illustration: Sixth-Grade Language Arts Teacher Keisha Wagner
What Is a Theory of Change, Why Do You Need One, and How Do You Get One?
Illustration: Elementary School Teacher Leader Kevin Smith
Tips for Making the Perfect Match for Professional Learning
Concluding Thoughts
12. Effective Professional Development Within Your School Walls: Lessons Learned
Ten Lessons for Making Job-Embedded Professional Development a Success at Your School
Parting Comments
References and Additional Reading
Index
About the author
Nancy Fichtman Dana is currently professor of education in the School of Teaching and Learning at the University of Florida, Gainesville. She began her career in education as an elementary school teacher in Hannibal Central Schools, New York. Since earning her Ph D from Florida State University in 1991, she has been a passionate advocate for teacher inquiry and has worked >extensively in supporting schools, districts and universities in implementing powerful programs of job-embedded professional development through inquiry across the United States and in several countries, including China, South Korea, Belgium, Portugal, The Netherlands, Slovenia, and Estonia. She has published ten books and over 100 articles in professional journals and edited books focused on her research exploring teacher and principal professional development and practitioner inquiry. Dana has received many honors, including the Association of Teacher Educator’s Distinguished Research in Teacher Education Award and the National Staff Development Council (now Learning Forward) Book of the Year Award, both honoring Dana and Yendol-Hoppey’s work related to practitioner inquiry.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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