From Staff Room to Classroom - A Guide for Planning and Coaching Professional Development - Brian Mitchell Pete - Paperback Bog - SAGE Publications

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The tips and tricks you need to know to make transfer happen! We know that the most expensive in-service is the one that teachers do not apply in the classroom. From Staff Room to Classroom offers district-level leaders, staff developers, and instructional coaches sure-fire tools and strategies for delivering professional learning that answers the question, "How can I use this in my classroom?" This resource provides comprehensive, indispensable guidance on: - - Effectively reaching and teaching adult learners by understanding their motivations, dispositions, and preferences - - The six levels of transfer and seven bridging strategies for supporting teachers as they apply content learned in PD to their classrooms and student interactions - - Updating professional learning to include technological developments and blended solutions - - Differentiating PD cross-generationally to promote reflective processing - Instill effective professional development with this guide to raise the rigor of instruction in the classroom and change the culture of your building. "In From Staff Room to Classroom , Fogarty and Pete take us into their world of improving schools through professional development. The authors are very experienced and thoroughly grounded, high-level practitioners in their specialty." —Bruce Joyce, Author of Realizing the Promise of 21st-Century Education