From Staff Room To Classroom

This valuable guide offers a wealth of strategies for designing, presenting, and facilitating professional development with follow-up coaching that meets the unique needs of adult learners.

The tips and tricks you need to know to make transfer happen! We know that the most expensive in-service is the one that teachers do not apply in the classroom. From Staff Room to Classroom offers district-level leaders, staff developers, and instructional coaches sure-fire tools and strategies for delivering professional learning that answers the question, "How can I use this in my classroom?" This resource provides comprehensive, indispensable guidance on: • Effectively reaching and teaching adult learners by understanding their motivations, dispositions, and preferences • The six levels of transfer and seven bridging strategies for supporting teachers as they apply content learned in PD to their classrooms and student interactions • Updating professional learning to include technological developments and blended solutions • Differentiating PD cross-generationally to promote reflective processing Instill effective professional development with this guide to raise the rigor of instruction in the classroom and change the culture of your building. "In From Staff Room to Classroom, Fogarty and Pete take us into their world of improving schools through professional development. The authors are very experienced and thoroughly grounded, high-level practitioners in their specialty" --Bruce Joyce, Author of Realizing the Promise of 21st-Century Education.

Through their extensive experience conducting professional development sessions with educators nationally and internationally, the authors have acquired a vast compendium of effective presentation and facilitation strategies. Now, in their companion to From Staff Room to Classroom, they present 144 strategies for leading staff development workshops, professional learning communities, and staff meetings. These proven, easy-to-use activities are organized into four "morphological grids", with columns corresponding to the three principles for successful presentations: Openers, capture the audience's attention; Meat of the Matter, captivate with the information; Closers, close with keepers. Using different strategies from each column of a morphological grid, presenters can create a different presentation format every time. Ideas can be arranaged or rearranged according to personal preference, group needs, or as a random creative act. Designed for staff developers, school leaders, and professional learning community facilitators, From Staff Room to Classroom II makes planning creative and winning presentations effortless.

Based on their vast experience with professional development, the authors present innovative "morphological grids" containing 144 strategies for designing workshops, professional learning communities, and staff meetings.

A grotesque, absurd satire which is also extremely funny. Kranich is a newly-qualified teacher about to take up his first job. After he arrives at the school, he is plunged into a Kafkaesque environment which has all the worst features of a totalitarian state. The four pillars of the school system, as the headmaster explains on Kranichs very first day there, are: "fear, misery, pretense and lies." Very soon he finds himself caught between the Education Authority Police, Secret Security Officers and the CG, the Conspiracy Group, that aims to undermine the school system -- but only verbally, since no one would actually want to put their own job at risk.

Engaging Teachers in Classroom Walkthroughs is a practical guide to planning and implementing brief but focused classroom observations that involves teachers in every step of the process. Drawing from their study of 40 schools in the United States and Canada, the authors show how administrators and teacher leaders moved teachers from resisting to embracing the practice. Readers will learn how to Foster a school culture that supports walkthroughs. Implement the components of successful walkthroughs, such as focus and "look-fors," data collection methods, and meaningful follow-up strategies. Get all teachers involved and actively participating. * Evaluate the walkthrough process and measure its effectiveness. Use walkthroughs to support professional development related to the Common Core State Standards. This book demonstrates that when teachers learn from one another in a cycle of continuous professional growth--through observation, shared inquiry, dialogue, and follow-up--they develop a sense of collegiality and a common mission. By opening their doors to their peers, they also contribute to broader school improvement efforts that positively affect teaching and learning throughout the school.

The coverage is complete, ranging from finding a mentor to working with parents. The book is meant to be short and sweet, and it is." —Lori L. Grossman, Instructional Coordinator Houston Independent School District, TX "Describes ten basic, practical tenets for finding one′s way in the classroom. The book makes a distinct contribution by presenting the ten tenets in a very brief, readable format." —Mary Alice Barksdale, Associate Professor Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University "This book contains an introduction to key, practical tips for teaching success." —Rodger J. Beatty, Associate Dean, Faculty of Education Brock University Help ensure your teaching success with these powerful professional tools! What kind of professional support is most critical for getting new teachers off to a good start in the classroom? How can veteran teachers elevate and energize their instructional techniques? In this second edition of Ten Things Teachers Need to Succeed, international educator Robin Fogarty distills a wealth of teaching and consulting experience into ten high-impact strategies to help novice and experienced instructors succeed and thrive. Updated throughout, this easy-to-use resource recommends ways to connect with a mentor and offers readings, related film clips, discussion questions, and action steps for successful: Curriculum and lesson design Assessment and rubrics construction Discipline and classroom management Communication with parents, and more This guidebook′s unique format also makes it an ideal professional development tool to help teams of new and experienced teachers grow together by discussing and applying one chapter each month.