Professional Development

Professional Development

Books

Videos

Books

Title

A New Vision for Staff Development

Author Dennis Sparks and Stephanie Hirsh
Publisher

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

Copyright 1997
Description Describes a new method of staff development which includes results-driven education, systems thinking, and constructivism.
Reference Number PD100.1  &  .2  &  .3  &  .4

Title

A Practical Guide for New Teachers:  Getting Started, Surviving, and Succeeding
Author Osborne F. Abbey, Jr.
Publisher Christopher Gordon Publishers, Inc.
Copyright 2003
Description Section I: Getting There: The Challenges of Obtaining a Teaching Position:

  • The first challenge – preparing to enter the job market
  • The second challenge – obtaining an interview
  • The interview – you only have one chance
  • Decision time – when an offer of a job arrives.

Section II: Life in a School:

  • Learning the culture of your school
  • The policy and procedures of manuals
  • The observation/evaluation process and professional development plan
  • Teacher’s rooms, custodians, secretaries, and other helpful hints
  • Committee memberships
  • Staff discipline.

Section III: Life in a Classroom:

  • Teaching: a blending of good pedagogy, challenging curriculum, and solid lesson planning
  • Designing and planning your classroom
  • Homework
  • Parent interaction
  • Budget building.

Section IV: Life in a District:

  • Payroll, health benefits, sick days, and personal days
  • Bargaining unit membership
  • Board of Education governance.
Reference Number PD101

Title

Educating Hearts and Minds
Author Edward F. DeRoche and Mary M. Williams
Publisher Corwin Press
Copyright 2001
Description Merges new ideas in character education research with best practices in schools and districts.  The authors provide the most up-to-date and comprehensive framework for K-12 administrators, educators, and concerned citizens.  It offers easy access to practical and proven methods supported by in-depth rationale.
Reference Number PD102

 

Title

How to Use Action Research in the Self-Renewing School
Author Emily F. Calhoun
Publisher Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Copyright 1994
Description Provides practical guidance for conducting school wide action research to improve student learning.  Begin with a broad assessment of the health of the school or with the perception of a problem in one area, such as students’ achievement in mathematics.  Calhoun presents the simple process of collective study in action.  first, seek agreement with others in your school community on what to study.  Second, collect and share information about students’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes.  Third, search your own experiences and examine educational research for strategies and programs that will improve your students’ math understanding.  Fourth, work together to improve curriculum and instruction in math.  Fifth, collect data on results, study effects, and begin the cycle all over again.
PD103.1  &  .2

 

Title

Learning the Craft of Training
Author Robby Champion
Publisher National Staff Development Council
Copyright 2000
Description Describes steps on how to get started training, details about teaching adult learners, and steps in designing training.
Reference Number PD105

 

Title

Professional Development: Learning from the Best

Author Emily Hassel
Publisher

North Central Regional Educational Laboratory

Copyright 1999
Description A comprehensive toolkit that describes a step-by-step process for planning, implementing, evaluating and sharing a successful school or district professional development program.
Reference Number PD106

 

Title

Professional Development in Education

Editors

Thomas R. Guskey and Michael Huberman

Publisher Teacher’s College
Copyright 1995
Description Contains a collection of varied perspectives, with individual chapters written by researchers and theoreticians renowned for their work in the area of professional and career development.
Reference Number PD107

 

Title

Staff Development for Education in the ’90s

Editors Ann Lieberman and Lynne Miller
Publisher Teacher’s College
Copyright 1991
Description

Offers a sharpened, contemporary focus to one of the most challenging issues of educational change: the continuous growth and development of teachers.

Reference Number PD108

 

Title

Systems for Change in Literacy Education

Author Carol A. Lyons and Gay Su Pinnell
Publisher Heinemann
Copyright 2001
Description

Offers specific and quite often unique suggestions for planning and implementing a literacy professional development course.

Cross reference with literacy

Reference Number PD109

 

Title

Teachers Caught in the Action: Professional Development that Matters

Author Ann Lieberman and Lynne Miller
Publisher Teacher’s College Press
Copyright 2001
Description Discusses the purposes of professional development and the contexts, strategies, and structures for professional development.
Reference Number PD110

 

Title

The Art of Classroom Inquiry
Author Ruth Shagoury Hubbard and Brenda Miller Power
Publisher Heinemann
Copyright 1993
Description Shows teachers how they can carefully and systematically pursue their wonderings through research.
Reference Number PD111

 

Title

Classroom Assessment for Student Learning: Total Development Package
Author Stiggins/Arter/Chappuis/Chappuis
Publisher Assessment Training Institute
Copyright 2004
Description This book is the core of a larger, comprehensive professional development program in student-involved classroom assessment that: teaches standards of assessment quality, and how to match achievement targets to assessment methods; helps teachers learn to involve students in the assessment process and provide descriptive feedback to students, practices proven to be especially effective for low-performing students.
Reference Number PD112

 

Title

Total Development Package: Assessment for Learning
Author Chappuis/Stiggins/Arter/Chappuis
Publisher Assessment Training Institute
Copyright 2004
Description This book will help school administrators define their vision of what excellence in assessment looks like and chart the path to achieve that vision.  Also identified are the knowledge requirements and the specific competencies leaders need to support assessment for learning, accompanied by activities and resources for use in learning and applying the skills.
Reference Number PD113

 

Title

Total Development Package: Understanding School Assessment
Author Jan Chappuis and Stephen Chappuis
Publisher Assessment Training Institute
Copyright 2002
Description Will help parents and community members understand the important role classroom assessment plays in school improvement and student achievement.  It explains in clear terms what a healthy, balanced assessment environment looks like in schools and classrooms and what you need to know about the wide variety of assessment information coming home today.  This book will help you work knowledgeably with teachers, schools, districts, and other parents and community members to create the best education environment possible for your children and the children in your community.
Reference Number PD114

 

Title

Total Development Package: Scoring Rubrics in the Classroom
Author Judith Arter and Jay McTighe
Publisher Assessment Training Institute
Copyright 2001
Description Learn how to be more consistent in judging student performance, and help your students become more effective at assessing their own learning.  This book offers a practical approach to assessing challenging but necessary performance tasks, like creative writing, “real-world” research projects, and cooperative group activities.
Reference Number PD115

 

Title

Whole Faculty Study Groups
Author

Carlene U. Murphy and Dale W. Lick

Publisher Corwin Press
Copyright 2001
Description Whole-faculty study groups are a proven way to successfully reform, improve, and transition schools to meet tomorrow’s needs.
Reference Number PD116

 

Title

Collaborative Analysis of Student Work
Author Georgia M. Langer & Amy B. Colton & Loretta S. Goff
Publisher ASCD
Copyright 2003
Description This system of professional inquiry challenges you to examine your beliefs about what students can do and helps you identify which teaching methods are working most successfully.  You and your colleagues can acquire deeper insight into the link between your instruction and each student’s learning – and enhance your ability to help every student succeed.You will learn:

  • ideas for setting up effective study groups
  • strategies for documenting students’
    progress toward learning standards
  • methods for reflecting on professional growth
  • ways to share the benefits with colleagues and students
Reference Number PD117.1 & PD117.2

 

Title

Teaching Matters: Motivating and Inspiring Yourself
Author Todd Whitaker and Beth Whitaker
Publisher Eye On Education
Copyright 2002
Description The examples and wisdom in this book will benefit teachers, principals, superintendents, professors and anyone else in the field of education.  It will show you how to rekindle the excitement of the first day of school all year long, approach every day in a “thank god its Monday” frame of mind, not let negative people ruin your day, learn specific things you can do to have a great day at work, and fall in love with teaching all over again.
Reference Number PD118

 

Title

Good To Great
Author Jim Collins
Publisher Harper Business
Copyright 2001
Description This carefully researched and well-written book disproves most of the current management hype – from the cult of the superhuman CEO to the cult of IT to the acquisitions and merger mania.  It will not enable mediocrity to become competence.  But it should enable competence to become excellence.
Reference Number PD119

 

Title

Energizing Staff Development Using Film Clips
Author Walter R. Olsen and William Al Sommers
Publisher Corwin Press
Copyright 2006
Description This book lists a collection of stimulating, instructive film and television clips that lead to helpful conversations, create positive plans of action, and promote learning through reflection.  whether planning a time meeting, a faculty meeting, or a training program, leaders and organizations will find a clip to generate conversations about many of the most pressing issues in education.
Reference Number PD120

 

Title

The Encyclopedia of Icebreakers – Structured Activities that Warm-up, Motivate, Challenge, Acquaint and Energize
Author Sue Forbess-Greene, L.M.S.W.
Publisher Jossey-Bass-Pfeiffer
Copyright 1983
Description The Encyclopedia of Icebreakers is the first comprehensive listing of introductory activities designed to make learning easier for the participants involved in workshops.  sections are Energizers and Tension Reducers, Feedback and Disclosure, Games and Brainteasers, Getting Acquainted, Openers and Warm-ups, and Professional Development Topics.
Reference Number PD121

 

Title

The Encyclopedia of Group Activities – Structured 150 Practical Designs for Successful Facilitating
Author Edited by J. William Pfeiffer
Publisher University Association
Copyright 1983
Description The Encyclopedia of Group Activities has been produced in an effort to provide facilitators with a large assortment of activities that can be used in many different group settings and for a wide variety of purposes.  Sections are Personal Awareness, Values Clarification, Communication, Group Process, Feedback, and Miscellaneous.
Reference Number PD122

 

Title

Whole-Faculty Study Groups – Creating Professional Learning Communities That Target Student Learning     3rd Edition
Author Carlene U. Murphy & Dale W. Lick
Publisher Corwin Press
Copyright 2005
Description While providing a step-by-step methodology for the development and implementation of successful Whole-Faculty Study Groups (WFSGs), this newest edition incorporates the most current theoretical concepts on change, the latest refinements to change management procedures, and a wealth of new experiences from more than two thousand individual study groups.Other significant revisions to this edition include:

  • A reorganization of chapters to make the book even more reader-friendly
  • New material on timely topics such as “learning communities” and “learning teams”
  • An increased focus on assessment of student results
  • Updated illustrations and samples of forms and letters in the resources
  • Three additional chapters: the research foundations for WGSFs, how to recognize and understand school culture, and fourteen key findings
Reference Number PD123

 

Title

Advisor/Advisee Character Education – Lessons for Teachers and Counselors
Author Sarah Sadlow
Publisher Character Development Group
Copyright 1998
Description Character is built gradually and is learned by instruction, observation and interaction with people if integrity and openness.  A short amount of time invested day after day in teaching and modeling positive character can make a difference over time.  Each lesson in this book is designed as a springboard for discussion and interaction through a week of study.  Keeping journals, creative writing, poster contests, and other creative ideas can spin off lessons.
Reference Number PD124

 

Title

Student Achievement Through Staff Development – 3rd Edition
Author Bruce Joyce & Beverly Showers
Publisher ASCD
Copyright 2002
Description Through case studies of successful programs, evidence from formal research, and concept illustrations, this book helps educators and administrators design programs that measurably improve student achievement.  They fill the gaps in staff development programs by answering the following vexing questions from both educators and administrators:

  •  How can we develop the skills and attitudes to implement our new knowledge?
  •  How can we measure, assess, and track student learning?
  •  How can we interpret results and modify learning environments accordingly?
  •  How can we learn and adopt supportive – rather than competing – strategies?

The authors focus not on a specific program or innovation but instead on the potential for personal growth (and thus organizational growth) inherent in a staff development program.

Reference Number PD126                                   Cross Reference:  SPPD100

 

Title

What Works in the Middle: Results-Based Staff Development
Author Joellen Killion
Publisher NSDC
Copyright 1999
Description This guide has several purposes.  First, it provides information and resources for selecting, designing, and evaluating staff development to improve student achievement.  Second, this guide serves as a “conversation piece,” to answer some fundamental questions, and third, will help decision-makers become savvy consumers of staff development by providing:

  •  Lists of successful staff development programs that have evidence of increasing student achievement in the four core content areas;
  •  Summaries of the characteristics of effective staff development evident across these programs;
  •  Cross-referencing of these staff development efforts to national contents standards in the core content areas and to the National Staff Development Council’s
    Standards for Staff Development;
  •  Guidelines for selecting effective staff development programs;
  •  Suggestions for effective ways to demonstrate the impact of staff development.
Reference Number PD127                                 Cross Reference:  SPPD101

 

Title

Educational Psychology – 95/96 – Annual Editions
Author Kathleen M. Cauley & Fredrick Linder & James H. McMillan
Publisher The Dushkin Publishing Group/Brown & Benchmark Publishers
Copyright 1995
Description This book is one in a series of over sixty-five volumes, each designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current, carefully selected articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers and journals published today.  Within the pages of this volume are interesting, well-illustrated articles by educational psychologists, educators, researchers, and writers providing effective and useful perspectives on today’s important topics in the study of education psychology.
Reference Number PD128                                 Cross Reference:  SPPD102

 

Title

Educational Psychology – 00/01 – Annual Editions
Author Kathleen M. Cauley & Fredrick Linder & James H. McMillan
Publisher The Dushkin/McGraw-Hill
Copyright 2000
Description This book is one in a series of over seventy volumes, each designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current, carefully selected articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers and journals published today.  Within the pages of this volume are interesting, well-illustrated articles by educational psychologists, educators, researchers, and writers providing effective and useful perspectives on today’s important topics in the study of education psychology.
Reference Number PD129                                Cross Reference:  SPPD103

 

Title

Flawless Consulting – A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used – 2nd Editon
Author Peter Block
Publisher Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer
Copyright 1981
Description This book is for any who does consulting, even if you don’t call yourself a consultant.  You are consulting any time you are trying to change or improve a situation but have no direct control over the implementation.  If you have direct control, you are managing, not consulting.  the consultant’s lack of direct control and authority is what makes our task difficult.  This book is about having leverage and impact when we don’t have direct control.  Leverage and impact mean our expertise is used and our recommendations are accepted.  The path to having leverage and impact is what the author called flawless consultation.  This book is a guide to developing the skills to navigate that path.
Reference Number PD130

 

 

 

 

Videos

Title

Excellence in Teaching: Avoiding Burnout
Author Bernstein, Sadler, Rutan, Wallace
Publisher Teacher’s Video Company
Copyright
Description The stresses and strains of the classroom environment affect everyone differently.  Teachers can become frustrated and overwhelmed.  This video provides insights and simple tips for teachers under pressure.
Reference Number PD001

 

Title

Opening Doors: An Introduction to Peer Coaching
Author Robins/Wolfe
Publisher ASCD
Copyright
Description
Reference Number PD002.1  &  PR002.2

 

Title

Total Development Package: Assessment for Student Motivation
Author Rick Stiggins
Publisher Assessment Training Institute
Copyright
Description Helps educators understand why and how behavior management defined the relationship between assessment and student motivation in school for decades.
Reference Number PD005

 

Title

Total Development Package: Assessing Reasoning in the Classroom
Author Rick Stiggins
Publisher Assessment Training Institute
Copyright
Description Shows what it means to be a proficient reasoner and problem solver – and then offers practical suggestions for transforming that vision of achievement into classroom assessments that can help students succeed.
Reference Number PD006

 

Title

Total Development Package: Commonsense Paper and Pencil Assessments
Author Rick Stiggins
Publisher Assessment Training Institute
Copyright
Description This interactive video describes strategies for developing quality classroom assessments and outlines steps for using paper and pencil assessment more effectively and efficiently.  This video’s interactive training approach is ideal for use in formal workshops, informal study groups or individual development.
Reference Number PD007

 

Title

Total Development Package: Evaluating Assessment Quality: Hands-On Practice
Author Rick Stiggins
Publisher Assessment Training Institute
Copyright
Description This new video from ATI gives viewers an overview of the ATI standards of classroom assessment quality.  It then: transforms these standards into checklists of key features to look for in an assessment to evaluate its quality; transforms these features into rubrics for the standards that any teacher can learn to apply to her or his own classroom assessments; provides hands-on practice in the application of the checklists and rubrics so teachers can learn to evaluate their assessments.
Reference Number PD008

 

Title

Total Development Package: Report Card Grading Strategies and Solutions
Author Rick Stiggins
Publisher Assessment Training Institute
Copyright
Description What should we be grading students on: Achievement? Ability? Effort?  Attitude? Compliance?  This thought-provoking interactive video will have you exploring the ins and outs of report card grading.  You will examine a variety of student grading factors and discover which ones are key to accurate grading.
Reference Number PD009

 

Title

Total Development Package: Student Involved Conferences
Author Rick Stiggins
Publisher Assessment Training Institute
Copyright
Description Outlines effective steps for involving students in the assessment process through the use of student-led conferences.  Involving students in self-evaluation as brought about by student-led conferences.  Involving students in self-evaluation as brought about by student-led conferences encourages student willingness to take responsibility for their own learning.
Reference Number PD010

 

Title

Total Development Package: Student Involved Performance Assessment
Author Rick Stiggins
Publisher Assessment Training Institute
Copyright
Description When done well, performance assessment serves as both an assessment tool and an instructional tool.  This video is the result of a decade of thinking and working in this area by Judy Arter and Jan Chappuis.  They will help you examine the two essential parts of a performance assessment – tasks and criteria (scoring guides or rubrics).  You’ll learn to evaluate performance tasks and criteria using a rubric designed to guide educators in this process.
Reference Number PD011

 

Title

Professional Development on Tape: An Overview of Learning Styles
Author Pat Guild
Publisher ASCD
Copyright 1995
Description Each program in this series contains 6 audio cassettes and text material that includes a graphic organizer of the workshop content and processes, handouts, overheads, readings, and other resources on the topic.
Reference Number PD017

 

Title

Professional Development on Tape: Designing Performance Based Assessment for Powerful Student Learning
Author Karen Kearney and Laraine Roberts
Publisher ASCD
Copyright 1995
Description Each program in this series contains 6 audio cassettes and text material that includes a graphic organizer of the workshop content and processes, handouts, overheads, readings, and other resources on the topic.
Reference Number PD018

 

Title

Professional Development on Tape: Multicultural Awareness and Skill Development
Author Kenneth Cushner
Publisher ASCD
Copyright 1995
Description Each program in this series contains 6 audio cassettes and text material that includes a graphic organizer of the workshop content and processes, handouts, overheads, readings, and other resources on the topic.
Reference Number PD019

 

Title

Professional Development on Tape: Self-Esteem- Yours, Theirs, and Ours
Author Judy-Arin Krump
Publisher ASCD
Copyright 1995
Description Each program in this series contains 6 audio cassettes and text material that includes a graphic organizer of the workshop content and processes, handouts, overheads, readings, and other resources on the topic.
Reference Number PD020

 

Title

Professional Development on Tape: Teaching Students to Be Peacemakers
Author Roger T. Johnson
Publisher ASCD
Copyright 1995
Description Each program in this series contains 6 audio cassettes and text material that includes a graphic organizer of the workshop content and processes, handouts, overheads, readings, and other resources on the topic.
Reference Number PD021

 

Title

Professional Development on Tape: The Mainstream School- Interventions to Meet Student Needs
Author Dick Sagor
Publisher ASCD
Copyright 1995
Description Each program in this series contains 6 audio cassettes and text material that includes a graphic organizer of the workshop content and processes, handouts, overheads, readings, and other resources on the topic.
Reference Number PD022

 

Title

Classroom Observations: Module #1 – High School: 10th Grade Biology, Mara Mills, 1st year teacher
Author Wendy Baron & Janet Gless
Publisher University of California Santa Cruz New Teacher Center
Copyright 2002
Description These video modules are intended for use by teachers, teacher educators, mentors, site administrators, coaches, staff developers, consulting teachers, and others who work with teachers around their instructional practice.  Possible purposes include collecting observation data, analyzing observation data for evidence vs. opinion, preparing for pre-observation and post-observation conferences, analyzing teaching practice in relationship to professional standards, assessing developmental needs of teachers, calibrating an observation instrument, and training classroom observers for the purpose of developing inter-rater reliability.Module #1: This lesson on genetics is intended to provide an introduction to Mendelian inheritance that will connect to students’ person al experiences and require cooperative student involvement.  The lesson is divided into four parts:

  1.  Warm Up: Students describe an inherited characteristic that has been passed on in their family.
  2.  Input: Teacher delivers an interactive lecture on genotypes.
  3.  Activity: Students work in groups on an activity entitled “Drop Your Genes.”
  4.  Closure: Students share results and the teacher explains the homework.
Reference Number PD023

 

Title

Classroom Observations: Module #2 – Primary: 1st Grade Literacy: Bilingual, Amie Tsang, 2nd year teacher
Author Wendy Baron & Janet Gless
Publisher University of California Santa Cruz New Teacher Center
Copyright 2002
Description These video modules are intended for use by teachers, teacher educators, mentors, site administrators, coaches, staff developers, consulting teachers, and others who work with teachers around their instructional practice.  Possible purposes include collecting observation data, analyzing observation data for evidence vs. opinion, preparing for pre-observation and post-observation conferences, analyzing teaching practice in relationship to professional standards, assessing developmental needs of teachers, calibrating an observation instrument, and training classroom observers for the purpose of developing inter-rater reliability.Module #2: This “Shared Reading” lesson is intended to increase familiarity with English print, offer practice in tracking text and recognizing sight vocabulary words, and provide an opportunity for students to dramatize repetitive phrases.  The lesson is divided into three parts:

  1. Review Sight Words: Students find four vocabulary words in print around the room.
  2. Shared Reading Lesson: Teacher focuses students on recognizing sight words and tracking text.
  3. Dramatization: Students use gestures to dramatize repetitive phrases.
Reference Number PD024

 

Title

Classroom Observations: Module 3 – Middle School: 7th Grade Language Arts: ELD, Damond Moodie, 1st year teacher
Author Wendy Baron & Janet Gless
Publisher University of California Santa Cruz New Teacher Center
Copyright 2002
Description These video modules are intended for use by teachers, teacher educators, mentors, site administrators, coaches, staff developers, consulting teachers, and others who work with teachers around their instructional practice.  Possible purposes include collecting observation data, analyzing observation data for evidence vs. opinion, preparing for pre-observation and post-observation conferences, analyzing teaching practice in relationship to professional standards, assessing developmental needs of teachers, calibrating an observation instrument, and training classroom observers for the purpose of developing inter-rater reliability.Module #3:  The lesson, entitled “Vocabulary Story Groups,” requires students to revisit previously studied vocabulary words and then work cooperatively to create stories using those words.  The lesson is divided into four parts:

  1.  Introduction: Teacher introduces the activity and provides instructions.
  2.  Individual Work: Students work to define their words.
  3.  Group Work: Small groups create stories using their vocabulary words.
  4.  Closure: Groups read their stories to the class.
Reference Number PD025

 

Title

Classroom Observations: Module #4 – Elementary: 4th-5th Grade Literacy, Elida Gallegos, 2nd year teacher
Author Wendy Baron & Janet Gless
Publisher University of California Santa Cruz New Teacher Center
Copyright 2002
Description These video modules are intended for use by teachers, teacher educators, mentors, site administrators, coaches, staff developers, consulting teachers, and others who work with teachers around their instructional practice.  Possible purposes include collecting observation data, analyzing observation data for evidence vs. opinion, preparing for pre-observation and post-observation conferences, analyzing teaching practice in relationship to professional standards, assessing developmental needs of teachers, calibrating an observation instrument, and training classroom observers for the purpose of developing inter-rater reliability.Module #4: This literacy lesson, entitled “The Budget Tour,” is intended to increase comprehension of the book just read by the class.  Students are each assigned a chapter in the book, Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson to review.  Groups of students with the same chapter are formed, and students engage in “The Budget Tour” activities.  Students are required to work cooperatively to 1) create a new title; 2) select an important quote; 3) identify a key paragraph; 4) develop a summary statement; 5) design a graphic to represent the chapter.  The lesson is divided into four parts:

  1. Introduction: Teacher introduces the concept of “Budget Tour.”
  2. Instruction: Teacher models and explains each of the five “Budget Tour” activities.
  3. Small Group Work: Using a graphic organizer, students work on the assigned tasks.
  4. Closure: Students share work in progress.
Reference Number PD026

 

Title

Classroom Observations: Module #5 – Middle School: 7th Grade Language Arts, Maria Reitano, 2nd year teacher
Author Wendy Baron & Janet Gless
Publisher University of California Santa Cruz New Teacher Center
Copyright 2002
Description These video modules are intended for use by teachers, teacher educators, mentors, site administrators, coaches, staff developers, consulting teachers, and others who work with teachers around their instructional practice.  Possible purposes include collecting observation data, analyzing observation data for evidence vs. opinion, preparing for pre-observation and post-observation conferences, analyzing teaching practice in relationship to professional standards, assessing developmental needs of teachers, calibrating an observation instrument, and training classroom observers for the purpose of developing inter-rater reliability.Module #5: This lesson on “Persuasive Essay” connects the English Language Arts standards with social studies content.  The students write a persuasive essay for a travel brochure about their country of study.  Maria explicitly teaches both the elements of a paragraph and persuasive essay during the lesson.  The lesson is divided into five parts:

  1.  Introduction: Students write in their journals, responding to prompts: What might attract people to your country of study? What might you put on a travel brochure for your country?
  2.  Direct Instruction: Students work in groups to sort sentence strips into sets of supporting details and topic sentences.
  3.  Guided Practice: Students plan their persuasive essays using a graphic organizer.
  4.  Independent Practice: Students work individually to write their persuasive essays.
  5.  Closure: Students share their writing.
Reference Number PD027

 

Title

The Collaborative Workplace and Peer Coaching
Author Pam Robbins
Publisher Video J
Copyright 1993
Description Video 1: Concept Highlights:

  • Collaboration is a process of bringing teachers out of isolation to share and reflect, analyze and problem solve with each other.
  • Formal peer coaching should never be attempted until the process of collaboration is well practiced and trust levels have been developed.
  • Time, training, trust, and tangible support are essential for successful collaboration.
  • a major cause of teacher burnout is isolation from collaborative experiences with peers.
  • Organizations change only as the individual beliefs and values of the people in the organization change.
  • Several practical collaborative strategies can engage staff from low to high risk levels in working together.

Video 2: Concept Highlights:

  • Formal peer coaching is defined and illustrated.
  • Peer coaching is not a form of teacher evaluation.
  • The three types of formal peer coaching are presented:  Mirroring, Collaborative, Expert.
  • Each peer coaching experience has three phases: Pre-conference, Observation, Post-conference.
  • The critical elements of a successful and productive peer coaching experience are identified and illustrated.
  • Cognitive coaching questions foster reflection,
    rehearsal, and analysis of the lesson to be presented and assists the teacher in thinking about the lesson after instruction.
  • The ability to communicate, to share and take risks are formal peer coaching prerequisites.
Reference Number PD031

 

Title

Attitude & Outlook – Educational Image Series
Author Educationillustrated.com
Publisher Educationillustrated.com
Copyright 2005
Description Images that are great for posters, slides, handouts, discussion starters and more.
Reference Number PD032

 

Title

Why Teachers Teach – Educational Image Series
Author Educationillustrated.com
Publisher Educationillustrated.com
Copyright 2005
Description Images that are great for posters, slides, handouts, discussion starters and more.
Reference Number PD033

 

Title

Education Is. . . . – Educational Image Series
Author Educationillustrated.com
Publisher Educationillustrated.com
Copyright 2005
Description Images that are great for posters, slides, handouts, discussion starters and more.
Reference Number PD034

 

Title

Educational Strategies – Educational Image Series
Author Educationillustrated.com
Publisher Educationillustrated.com
Copyright 2005
Description Images that are great for posters, slides, handouts, discussion starters and more.
Reference Number PD035

 

Title

The Object of Teaching -Educational Image Series
Author Educationillustrated.com
Publisher Educationillustrated.com
Copyright 2005
Description Images that are great for posters, slides, handouts, discussion starters and more.
Reference Number PD036

 

Title

Student Motivation – Educational Image Series
Author Educationillustrated.com
Publisher Educationillustrated.com
Copyright 2005
Description Images that are great for posters, slides, handouts, discussion starters and more.
Reference Number PD037

 

Title

Examining Student Work – Facilitator’s Guide
Author ASDC
Publisher ASDC
Copyright 2002
Description SET of 1 Facilitators Guide and 4 videos.The process of developing, assigning, collecting, and evaluating student work is traditionally a solitary activity, limited to the confines of the classroom.  However, educators are now using student work as a vehicle to reflect in groups upon their own teaching strategies to help all students learn.

This video series examines this process and several specific methods of how educators critically review student work and assignments in collaborative teams.

Reference Number PD038        (Text    –   goes w/PD039 & PD040 & PD041 & PD042)

 

Title

Examining Student Work – Improving Student Learning
Author ASDC
Publisher ASDC
Copyright 2002
Description SET of 1 Facilitators Guide and 4 videos.The process of developing, assigning, collecting, and evaluating student work is traditionally a solitary activity, limited to the confines of the classroom.  However, educators are now using student work as a vehicle to reflect in groups upon their own teaching strategies to help all students learn.

This video series examines this process and several specific methods of how educators critically review student work and assignments in collaborative teams.

Reference Number PD039                    (Goes w/PD038 & PD040 & PD041 & PD042)

 

Title

Examining Student Work – The Tuning Protocol
Author ASDC
Publisher ASDC
Copyright 2002
Description SET of 1 Facilitators Guide and 4 videos.The process of developing, assigning, collecting, and evaluating student work is traditionally a solitary activity, limited to the confines of the classroom.  However, educators are now using student work as a vehicle to reflect in groups upon their own teaching strategies to help all students learn.

This video series examines this process and several specific methods of how educators critically review student work and assignments in collaborative teams.

Reference Number PD040                    (Goes w/PD038 & PD039 & PD041 & PD042)

 

Title

Examining Student Work – Standards in Practice
Author ASDC
Publisher ASDC
Copyright 2002
Description SET of 1 Facilitators Guide and 4 videos.The process of developing, assigning, collecting, and evaluating student work is traditionally a solitary activity, limited to the confines of the classroom.  However, educators are now using student work as a vehicle to reflect in groups upon their own teaching strategies to help all students learn.

This video series examines this process and several specific methods of how educators critically review student work and assignments in collaborative teams.

Reference Number PD041                    (Goes w/PD038 & PD039 & PD040 & PD042)

 

Title

Examining Student Work – Collaborative Analysis of Student Learning
Author ASDC
Publisher ASDC
Copyright 2002
Description SET of 1 Facilitators Guide and 4 videos.The process of developing, assigning, collecting, and evaluating student work is traditionally a solitary activity, limited to the confines of the classroom.  However, educators are now using student work as a vehicle to reflect in groups upon their own teaching strategies to help all students learn.

This video series examines this process and several specific methods of how educators critically review student work and assignments in collaborative teams.

Reference Number PD042                    (Goes w/PD038 & PD039 & PD040 & PD041)

 

Title

Looking at Student Work – A Window Into the Classroom
Author Annenberg Institute for School Reform
Publisher Teachers College Press
Copyright 1997
Description This resource explores a variety of ways in which looking at student work can help improve teaching and learning.  The video features students, teachers, and administrators at Norview High School in Norfolk, VA who discuss their experiences in looking at student work.
Reference Number PD043

 

Title

Result Driven Staff Development
Author Dennis Sparks / Stephanie Hirsh
Publisher Video J
Copyright
Description This video brings you programs which help educators experience a paradigm shift necessary to implement quality training that will improve student achievement.  The NSCD, along with several other associations, has developed a results-driven model for improving teacher skills, which revolves around standards of content, process, and context.  The focus of this model is student achievement, creating the conditions for students to become better learners.  These standards are examined through the perspectives of educators who have worked successfully to improve staff development in their districts.
Reference Number PD604

 

Title

Cognitive Coaching
Author Arthur L Costa, Robert J Garmston, Jane Ellison, Carolee Hayes
Publisher Video J
Copyright
Description Cognitive coaching is a powerful way to help teachers plan, reflect, and solve their own problems.  Through conversation, the coach helps the coachee understand his / her own thinking and helps him / her move to where he / she wants to be as an educator.  These programs are presented as an overview to cognitive coaching and introduce the basic principles behind its successful implementation.
Reference Number PD1105

 

Title

Whole Faculty Study Groups: Collaboration Targeting Student Learning
Author Carlene Murphy
Publisher Video J
Copyright
Description With this objective to increase learning for all students, whole faculty study groups focus the entire school on implementing effective teaching and learning practices in the classroom.  Three to five educators represent the same or different grades, or disciplines.  Various study groups in a school tackle issues and research practices that will increase student learning.  The work of each study group benefits the entire school.
Reference Number PD1302

 

Title

The Frazzled Principal’s Health and Wellness Plan
Author J Allen Queen
Publisher Video J
Copyright 2004
Description Program 1: The Frazzled Principal’s Health and Wellness Plan

  • Learn how to control professional and personal stress by implementing the five steps of
    The Frazzled Educator’s Health and Wellness Plan:

    1. Identify Schools As a Culture of Stress
    2. Restructuring Personal and Professional Priorities for a
      Healthy Lifestyle
    3. Mastering the Science of Stress Management for Better Health
    4. Arresting Time Bandits at Home and School
    5. Using Nutrition to Support a Health Lifestyle
  • Create an effective health and wellness plan to maintain high levels of energy, devote more time to professional and personal priorities, and effectively engage in the success of all students.

Program 2 – Desktop Yoga and Relaxation Exercise

  • Learn professional coping strategies to help deal with stressors immediately and discreetly while working or during short breaks.
  • Experience the benefits of these personal exercises which can be done alone, with groups in the classroom, in faculty meetings, or at home.
  • Learn Desktop Yoga, a series of short yoga exercises that an educator can perform at his or her desk in working attire.
  • Understand how to breathe properly while properly while focusing on the mental, physical, emotional, and meditative functioning of the body in order to bring it into balance.
  • Participate in a relaxation exercise, another professional coping strategy where educators are led through a meditative sessions to release physical stress.
Reference Number PD1401P

 

Title

The Frazzled Teacher’s Health and Wellness Plan
Author J Allen Queen
Publisher Video J
Copyright
Description Program 1: The Frazzled Teacher’s Health and Wellness Plan

  • Learn how to control professional and personal stress by implementing the five steps of
    The Frazzled Educator’s Health and Wellness Plan:

    1. Identify Schools As a Culture of Stress
    2. Restructuring Personal and Professional Priorities for a Healthy Lifestyle
    3. Mastering the Science of Stress Management for Better Health
    4. Arresting Time Bandits at Home and School
    5. Using Nutrition to Support a Health Lifestyle
  • Create an effective health and wellness plan to maintain high levels of energy, devote more time to professional and personal priorities, and effectively engage in the success of all students.

Program 2 – Desktop Yoga and Relaxation Exercise

  • Learn professional coping strategies to help deal with stressors immediately and discreetly while working or during short breaks
  • Experience the benefits of these personal exercises which can be done alone, with groups in the classroom, in faculty meetings, or at home.
  • Learn Desktop Yoga, a series of short yoga exercises that an educator can perform at his or her desk in working attire.
  • Understand how to breathe properly while properly while focusing on the mental, physical, emotional, and meditative functioning of the body in order to bring it into balance.
    Participate in a relaxation exercise, another professional coping strategy where educators are led through a meditative sessions to release physical stress.
Reference Number PD1401T

 

Title

Designing and Evaluating Professional Development for Increased Student Learning
Author Stephanie Hirsh, Jo Ellen Killion, Dennis Sparks
Publisher Video J
Copyright 2004
Description Create Powerful Professional Learning to Impact Student AchievementProgram 1 – Standards for Staff Development: 

Understand the National Staff Development Council (NSDC) standards for professional development with the focus on student learning.

  • CONTEXT STANDARDS:
    1. Learning Communities
    2. Leadership
    3. Resources
  • PROCESS STANDARDS:
    1. Data-Driven
    2. Evaluation
    3. Research-Based
    4. Design
    5. Learning
    6. Collaboration
  • CONTENT STANDARDS:
    1. Equity
    2. Quality Teaching
    3. Family Involvement.

View examples from various exemplary school systems implementing the standards.

Program 2 – Evaluating Staff Development:

Learn the importance of evaluating professional development to assess the impact on student learning.  Examine an impressive model for evaluation:

  • PLANNING PHASE:
    1. Assess Evaluability
    2. Formulate Evaluative Questions
    3. Construct Evaluation Framework
  • CONDUCTING PHASE:
    1. Collect Data
    2. Organize and Analyze Data
    3. Interpret Data
  • REPORTING PHASE:
    1. Disseminate Findings
    2. Evaluate the Evaluation.

Program 3 – Designs for Powerful Professional Learning

Observe various proven designs that provide effective learning activities for educators.  Learn that greater success in the classroom can be the result.

  • Accessing Student Voices
  • Action Research
  • Case Studies
  • Classroom Walkthroughs
  • Critical-Friends Groups
  • Curriculum Design
  • Data & Student Achievement
  • Immersing Teachers in Practice
  • Journaling
  • Lesson Study
  • Mentoring
  • Peer Coaching
  • Portfolios for Educators
  • School Coaching
  • Shadowing Students
  • Standards in Practice
  • Whole-Faculty Study Groups
  • Training the Trainer
  • Tuning Protocols.
Reference Number PD1303

 

Title

Collaborative Workplace and Peer Coaching
Author Pam Robbins
Publisher Video J
Copyright
Description Deals with the development of collaboration as an avenue for the sharing of collective staff expertise.  Peer coaching is proven to be a viable process of linking teachers and other professionals together in a medium rich in analysis, reflection, problem solving, and self improvement.  These video tapes present practical strategies which illustrate the critical elements in successful peer coaching expertise.
Reference Number PDV3-1