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This practical guide details the characteristics of high-quality microcredentials and provides guidelines for choosing them, models for designing them, implementation strategies, and lots of examples.

This book is a guide for scientists, teachers, and administrators on how to design, implement, and evaluate professional development programs. The assumption is that the science teacher and the practicing scientist are full partners in a professional community. The eight chapters contain information on the committee that produced this book and how it accomplished the task, characteristics of effective professional development programs, a guide for scientists, the responsibilities of others in encouraging partnerships, strategies for attracting teachers to professional development programs, systemic professional development and science education reform, and evaluation of professional development programs. The appendices provide information on the geographic location and subject matter of the professional development programs that responded to researchers. An example of an inquiry-based laboratory exercise is also included. (DDR)

Can mentoring and coaching really improve professional practice? How can research and inquiry improve mentoring and coaching practice? Mentoring and Coaching in Schools explores the ways in which mentoring and coaching can be used as a dynamic collaborative process for effective professional learning. It demonstrates how the use of practitioner inquiry within mentoring and coaching relationships in schools results in professional learning which is both transformative and empowering for teachers. The book sets out a new model for mentoring and coaching which is centred on a process of critical inquiry and shows teachers how they can use this model to carry out their own collaborative inquiries. Features include: reflective questions, guidelines, task and templates to help collect evidence and evaluate inquiries detailed case studies focusing on teachers at different stages in their career practical guidance on carrying out practitioner inquiry and research an analysis of learning outcomes resulting from different coaching and mentoring relationships. This timely text will be valuable reading for coaches and mentors in secondary schools, teachers undertaking continuing professional development and students on coaching and mentoring courses.

The revised classic for designing mathematics and science professional development presents an updated planning framework and many professional development strategies and emphasizes continuous program monitoring and building professional cultures.

Integrate teacher evaluation, strategic professional development, and school improvement planning with this data-driven, standards-linked approach to supervision that builds educators' analytical and instructional capacity to address student learning needs.

Coaching is not a workshop or simply a new role-it requires a leader to embrace the knowledge of how others learn and change as a result of coaching language and behaviours. Being a \"coach-leader\" is a key competency, a new identity, for anyone in the business of developing teachers, staff, and students. On a daily basis, coaching challenges leaders to \"walk the talk\"-continuously growing and improving themselves before modeling and leading others. Built upon the International Coaching Federation standards and competencies for coaching, this book introduces leaders to results coaching, a model that: - Provides a navigation system for impacting new thinking and solution finding at every level of school systems - Creates new pathways in the brain resulting in new energy and motivation - Teaches language that builds trust and scaffolds confidence and competence - Models thinking processes that move people to action - Focuses on goal clarity and multiple options leading to action and achievement.

Turn teachers—and students—into tech-savvy digital citizens!Digital literacies are essential for managing information and communication in our rapidly changing world—but the old scattered approaches to introducing technology have left many teachers playing catch-up with their students. With this authentic, job-embedded professional development program, you'll help K–12 teachers incorporate digital literacies into their classrooms once and for all.Using a modular, highly adaptable framework that capitalizes on the personnel and resources you already have available, this comprehensive program includes:Instructions on developing personal learning networks (PLN) for collaborative learning and applying digital literacies in the classroom; Tips for maximizing teacher motivation and buy-in; Technology-related supports to enable schoolwide curriculum integration; A companion website with electronic planning and implementation materials, sample instructional tools, and links to supporting resourcesWhen you empower teachers to harness existing technologies and digital resources, they'll build upon their teaching expertise—and change the way students learn.“Summey presents a well-crafted, technology professional development model that is sound in practice, adaptable, and can be easily implemented at the local level. And, as an added bonus, he includes a new digital literacies framework that surrounds the professional development structure and is a stellar model for framing the teaching and learning of the important 21st century skill-set for both educators and students!”—Kathy Schrock, Educational Technologist

Three instructional coaches share more than 200 of the most helpful problem-solving strategies they've used in their decades-long work with teachers, administrators, and coaches. \"The Instructional Coaching Handbook\" is not a new model of coaching. It addresses common hiccups that prevent productive coaching conversations from happening in the first place. From their thousands of annual school visits, the authors recognize that coaches frequently confront similar challenges when helping educators address seven skills and dispositions--and they devote a chapter to each: (1) Efficacy; (2) Equity; (3) Academic instruction; (4) Social-emotional instruction; (5) Openness to feedback; (6) Lesson planning; and (7) Team membership. Each chapter features scores of practical, research-based strategies with a history of success. Mix and match them according to your leadership style, the needs of the student or teacher, and the demands of the curriculum. In addition to implementation stories that show what the strategies look like in a range of classroom settings, this handbook includes effective tools and resources that help guide you through the thorniest of coaching conversations. All you have to do is dive into an appropriate chapter; scan for ideas that match your style, the educators you coach, and your unique context; and start making a difference!

Discover how to transform intermittent teacher mentoring into effective, systematic coaching! This book shows school and district leaders how to develop a collaborative mentoring program that will help retain new teachers, improve student achievement, and boost school performance. The authors present a practical, field-tested model that clearly defines roles, expectations, and experiences for new teachers, mentors, and school leaders, and builds upon the research in effective teaching, leadership, and organizational development. Administrators in any district can use this comprehensive how-to guide to: - Attract and retain talented teachers - Develop teacher leaders - Create energized learning communities - Develop, sustain, and assess mentoring programs

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.