Leading Powerful Professional Learning
Kaye Twyford, Helen Timperley, Fiona Ell, et al.
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik
Beschreibung
Effective facilitation is complexWhat is central to leading powerful and effective facilitation in professional learning? You. Gone are the one-size-fits-all answers instead, you ll draw from your own knowledge and expertise to lead your PLC in actively solving complex problems that are unique to your context. For professional learning to have an improvement impact for both teachers and students, it needs to be more than a single event. Truly successful professional learning is sustained, collaborative, evidence-informed, and student-focused generating multifaceted solutions to real-life, real-time issues rather than focusing on one piece of the practice puzzle at a time.This book, based on the results of a five-year research study, provides: An innovative approach to the design and delivery of professional learning grounded in principles of adaptive expertise Easy-to-use one-page summaries of "e;Deliberate Acts of Facilitation"e; Guidance that s fully congruent with Learning Forward Standards for Professional LearningThe current educational landscape demands a new kind of leadership. This book gives you the tools you need to apply the principles of adaptive expertise to your leadership and facilitation enabling you to draw on your own deep knowledge to address the complex challenges you and your teachers face every day.