Number of Pages: 152
Genre: Education
Sub-Genre: Professional Development
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Corwin Publishers
Age Range: Adult
Author: Isabel Sawyer & Marisa Ramirez Stukey
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Language: English
About the Book
You've just found your new comprehensive guide to designing powerful professional learning!
Full of protocols, vignettes, and case studies, this book dissects elements of professional learning, like coherence, connections, and content, and examines each through an evidence-based lens. Destined to become a go-to resource for anyone in a teacher-support role, this book analyzes research from the past 25 years on what makes professional learning work. In addition to focusing on the often-neglected role of the facilitator itself, other features include:
- A multi-year implementation framework to improve instructional practice
- Planning tools to shift instruction at the school and district level
- Techniques and strategies to embed content-based learning for all educators
Review Quotes
"This book provides a clear and practical understanding and approach to tackling the task of teacher learning at a time when "initiative fatigue" and "PD overload" are part of our everyday conversations. It allows us to pause for a moment, step back and examine our practices through a new lens. Professional Learning Redefined
explains the "why" and the "how" of what we do."-- (08/29/2018)
"In Professional Learning Redefined,
the authors have created a book where outcomes are clear, and the steps are realistic and useful. I believe this book meets the need for a book on how to design professional learning."
--Ronda J. Mitchell, Ed. D., Assistant Professor, College of Education at University of Illinois at Springfield (08/29/2018)
"Professional Learning Redefined is an easy to use handbook that will help ensure that professional development is meaningful, relevant and connects back to student learning."
--Dara Feldman, Educational Consultant, The Heart of Education, LLC (08/29/2018)
"In this text, Sawyer and Stukey connect building knowledge, learning, and planning for adult audiences that goes beyond professional learning communities."--Dr. Melissa Nixon, Director of Title I, Guilford County Schools (08/29/2018)
"Teachers have become complacent and bored with regular "trainings" because they don't solve problems. This book will put that idea away and support learning to those who are in the classroom and who don't have a process for solving problems. Collaborative learning will holds teachers and administration accountable for all children learning to the best of their ability and removes the "PD from hell" syndrome."-- (08/29/2018)