Collaborative Activities and Strategies for Professional Development
"Roberts and Pruitt offer practical advice to educators who seek to address one of the greatest obstacles to creating effective schools: how to get school staff to collaborate and learn from each other. Their insights and suggestions are smart, useful, and demonstrate a genuine understanding of how schools work." -Pedro A. Noguera, Executive Director Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, New York University Your one-stop sourcebook for building a professional learning community in your school! More and more educational leaders are turning to the collaborative learning community model to create school change and improvement. This practical resource offers research-based activities and strategies for providing professional learning opportunities that lead to the building of community in schools as well as improved learning outcomes for both teachers and students. Ideal for school leaders and staff developers, this updated bestseller examines the knowledge and skills needed to become a successful leader of learners and provides helpful tips, real-life classroom vignettes, and insights into effective teamwork. The authors help administrators lead staff in: Learning through study groups, shared leadership, and professional portfolios Performing collaborative student assessments and classroom observation Reexamining their beliefs and assumptions through reflective activities With the latest information on e-portfolios, coaching, emotional intelligence, and more, this proven professional development approach gives leaders the tools they need to implement a culture of collaboration that can transform entire schools!
Collaborative Activities and Strategies for Professional Development
This resource for leaders of professional learning communities examines the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to work effectively with teachers, parents, administrators, students, and their school community members at large. Schools as Professional Learning Communities, Second Edition, a one-stop sourcebook for building a learning community, presents research-based activities and strategies that offer ongoing support for teachers. All activities are appropriate for use with study groups or school leadership teams as they seek to build their learning communities. Leaders will be able to offer teachers meaningful opportunities to meet, discuss, and work together to build and strengthen their understandings about teaching and learning and improve learning experiences for all students. In this new edition, the authors have added: - A Making it Work! activities section within each chapter to help teachers reexamine their educational beliefs and assumptions that guide their behaviour - The School Improvement Framework for Learning Community Schools - a discussion of new strategies for classroom observation - New information on e-portfolios, coaching, the importance of emotional intelligence, and the impact of No Child Left Behind
