Professional Learning Redefined

An Evidence-Based Guide

Isabel Sawyer, Marisa Ramirez Stukey

• Publisher: Corwin
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781544336756
• eBook ISBN: 9781544336770
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Professional Development

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.  

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Acknowledgements
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Advertisement
• 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