Individualizing Professional Development

Author : Marilyn Murphy
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1681235897
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook on Personalized Learning for States, Districts, and Schools written by Marilyn Murphy and published by IAP. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) presents new opportunities and greater flexibility in efforts to personalize learning for all children. The Handbook on Personalized Learning for States, Districts, and Schools provides insight and guidance on maximizing that new flexibility. Produced by the Center on Innovations in Learning (CIL), one of seven national content centers funded by the U.S. Department of Education, this volume suggests how teachers can enhance personalized learning by cultivating relationships with students and their families to better understand a child’s learning and motivation. Personalized learning also encourages the development of students’ metacognitive, social, and emotional competencies, thereby fostering students’ self?direction in their own education, one aimed at mastery of knowledge and skills and readiness for career and college. Chapters address topics across the landscape of personalized learning, including co?designing instruction and learning pathways with students; variation in the time, place, and pace of learning, including flipped and blended classrooms; and using technology to manage and analyze the learning process. The Handbook’s chapters include Action Principles to guide states, districts, and schools in personalizing learning.

Author : Vicki R. Husby
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 1412909422
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Individualizing Professional Development written by Vicki R. Husby and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2005-03-10 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book "explains how to satisfy both individual needs and preferences of teachers and organizational demands for accountability and improved student achievement. [...] Designed as a how-to manual, this [...] includes step-by-step directions for designing and implementing a program; mini-lesson directions and materials; a reproducible learning plan template; examples of participants' individualized learning plans ; typical teacher commentary in response to the program."--Back cover.

Author : Dan Rothstein
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
ISBN 13 : 161250454X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Make Just One Change written by Dan Rothstein and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of Make Just One Change argue that formulating one’s own questions is “the single most essential skill for learning”—and one that should be taught to all students. They also argue that it should be taught in the simplest way possible. Drawing on twenty years of experience, the authors present the Question Formulation Technique, a concise and powerful protocol that enables learners to produce their own questions, improve their questions, and strategize how to use them. Make Just One Change features the voices and experiences of teachers in classrooms across the country to illustrate the use of the Question Formulation Technique across grade levels and subject areas and with different kinds of learners.

Author : Sonia Caus Gleason
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 1452287619
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Into Equity written by Sonia Caus Gleason and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High-Achieving Students and Teachers—Winning Strategies from Title I Schools! This illuminating book shows how four outstanding Title I schools make the goal of personalized learning a reality for every student and every teacher. The common thread is commitment to equity—the belief that every child can achieve. Readers will find: Guidance on identifying obstacles to equity within your school and building a case for personalized learning Case studies showing the lived values, practices, and leadership that have helped schools transform learning How-to’s and templates for creating a team-based professional development program that helps teachers individualize instruction

Author : Peggy Grant
Publisher : International Society for Technology in Education
ISBN 13 : 1564845443
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Personalized Learning written by Peggy Grant and published by International Society for Technology in Education. This book was released on 2014-06-21 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personalized Learning: A Guide for Engaging Students with Technology is designed to help educators make sense of the shifting landscape in modern education. While changes may pose significant challenges, they also offer countless opportunities to engage students in meaningful ways to improve their learning outcomes. Personalized learning is the key to engaging students, as teachers are leading the way toward making learning as relevant, rigorous, and meaningful inside school as outside and what kids do outside school: connecting and sharing online, and engaging in virtual communities of their own Renowned author of the Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go series, Dale Basye, and award winning educator Peggy Grant, provide a go-to tool available to every teacher today—technology as a way to ‘personalize’ the education experience for every student, enabling students to learn at their various paces and in the way most appropriate to their learning styles.

Author : Dale Basye
Publisher : International Society for Technology in Education
ISBN 13 : 1564845117
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Get Active written by Dale Basye and published by International Society for Technology in Education. This book was released on 2015-06-21 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Active learning spaces offer students opportunities to engage, collaborate, and learn in an environment that taps into their innate curiosity and creativity. Students well versed in active learning - the capabilities that colleges, vocational schools and the workforce demand - will be far more successful than those educated in traditional classrooms. Get Active is a practical guide to inform your thinking about how best to design schools and classrooms to support learning in a connected, digital world. From classroom redesigns to schoolwide rennovation projects and new building construction, the authors show the many ways that active learning spaces can improve the learning experience.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264068783
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book TALIS Creating Effective Teaching and Learning Environments First Results from TALIS written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the first report from the OECD’s Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS). It provides quantitative, policy-relevant information on the teaching and learning environment in schools in 23 countries.

Author : Olia E. Tsivitanidou
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319914065
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Professional Development for Inquiry-Based Science Teaching and Learning written by Olia E. Tsivitanidou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​This book examines the implementation of inquiry-based approaches in science teaching and learning. It explores the ways that those approaches could be promoted across various contexts in Europe through initial teacher preparation, induction programmes and professional development activities. It illustrates connections between scientific knowledge deriving from the science education research community, teaching practices deriving from the science teachers’ community, and educational innovation. Inquiry-Based Science Teaching and Learning (IBST/L) has been promoted as a policy response to pressing educational challenges, including disengagement from science learning and the need for citizens to be in a position to evaluate evidence on pressing socio-scientific issues. Effective IBST/L requires well-prepared and skilful teachers, who can act as facilitators of student learning and who are able to adapt inquiry-based activity sequences to their everyday teaching practice. Teachers also need to engage creatively with the process of nurturing student abilities and to acquire new assessment competences. The task of preparing teachers for IBST/L is a challenging one. This book is a resource for the implementation of inquiry-oriented approaches in science education and illustrates ways of promoting IBST/L through initial teacher preparation, induction and professional development programmes.

Author : Norma Gonzalez
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135614059
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Funds of Knowledge written by Norma Gonzalez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-21 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of "funds of knowledge" is based on a simple premise: people are competent and have knowledge, and their life experiences have given them that knowledge. The claim in this book is that first-hand research experiences with families allow one to document this competence and knowledge, and that such engagement provides many possibilities for positive pedagogical actions. Drawing from both Vygotskian and neo-sociocultural perspectives in designing a methodology that views the everyday practices of language and action as constructing knowledge, the funds of knowledge approach facilitates a systematic and powerful way to represent communities in terms of the resources they possess and how to harness them for classroom teaching. This book accomplishes three objectives: It gives readers the basic methodology and techniques followed in the contributors' funds of knowledge research; it extends the boundaries of what these researchers have done; and it explores the applications to classroom practice that can result from teachers knowing the communities in which they work. In a time when national educational discourses focus on system reform and wholesale replicability across school sites, this book offers a counter-perspective stating that instruction must be linked to students' lives, and that details of effective pedagogy should be linked to local histories and community contexts. This approach should not be confused with parent participation programs, although that is often a fortuitous consequence of the work described. It is also not an attempt to teach parents "how to do school" although that could certainly be an outcome if the parents so desired. Instead, the funds of knowledge approach attempts to accomplish something that may be even more challenging: to alter the perceptions of working-class or poor communities by viewing their households primarily in terms of their strengths and resources, their defining pedagogical characteristics. Funds of Knowledge: Theorizing Practices in Households, Communities, and Classrooms is a critically important volume for all teachers and teachers-to-be, and for researchers and graduate students of language, culture, and education.

Author : Cate Heroman
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 9781933021782
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Coach's Guide to the Creative Curriculum for Preschool written by Cate Heroman and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research confirms that ongoing professional development is critical to implementing a high-quality curriculum. This powerful new resource empowers those who provide direct, in-class assistance to preschool teachers. This practical, comprehensive guide helps them individualize their support as teachers take small, manageable steps. You will be able to help all of your teachers become more effective in implementing The Creative Curriculum for Preschool --whether it is their first day on the job or they are master teachers with years of experience (and all levels of experience in between). Coaching opens the door to more collaboration and collegial learning among the teachers in your program. Working side-by-side with teachers and administrators, coaches observe in the classroom, offer feedback, and model best practices. They refer teachers to The Creative Curriculum resources they need. At its best, coaching helps teachers make informed decisions that will lead them to teach in the way that children learn best.