Shirley M. Hord, James L. Roussin, William A. Sommers

Guiding Professional Learning Communities

Inspiration, Challenge, Surprise, and Meaning

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers more than 30 structured "learning opportunities" to help busy educators put six components of effective PLCs into practice and facilitate individual and schoolwide development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Corwin
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 216mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 620g
• ISBN-13: 9781412972710
• ISBN-10: 141297271X
• Artikelnr.: 27935762

Autorenporträt

Shirley M. Hord, PhD, is the scholar laureate of Learning Forward (previously National Staff Development Council), following her retirement as Scholar Emerita at the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory in Austin, Texas. There she directed the Strategies for Increasing Student Success Program. She continues to design and coordinate professional development activities related to educational change and improvement, school leadership, and the creation of professional learning communities. Her early roles as elementary school classroom teacher and university science education faculty at The University of Texas at Austin were followed by her appointment as co-director of Research on the Improvement Process at the Research and Development Center for Teacher Education at The University of Texas at Austin. There she administered and conducted research on school improvement and the role of school leaders in school change. She served as a fellow of the National Center for Effective Schools Research and Development and was U.S. representative to the Foundation for the International School Improvement Project, an international effort that develops research, training, and policy initiatives to support local school improvement practices. In addition to working with educators at all levels across the U.S. and Canada, Hord makes presentations and consults in Asia, Europe, Australia, Africa, and Mexico. Her current interests focus on the creation and functioning of educational organizations as learning communities and the role of leaders who serve such organizations. Dr. Hord is the author of numerous articles and books, of which a selection of the most recent are: Implementing Change: Patterns, Principles, and Potholes, 3rd ed (with Gene E. Hall, 2011); Reclaiming Our Teaching Profession: The Power of Educators Learning in Community (with Edward F. Tobia, 2012); A Playbook for Professional Learning: Putting the Standards Into Action (with Stephanie Hirsh, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Roland S. Barth
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Part I. Introduction: Things You Need to Know Before You Use This Book
Part II. Words to the Wise: Before You Begin
Part III. Learning Opportunities: Tools, Tasks, Deep Thinking, and a Wee
Bit of Trivia
Learning Opportunity 0.1: A Crisp Rationale for PLCs
Learning Opportunity 0.2: Benefits to Staff and to Students: A Flamingo
Dialogue
Learning Opportunity 0.3: Research-Based Components of a PLC: A Jigsaw
Component 1: Shared Beliefs, Values, and Vision
Overview and Current Thinking
Learning Opportunity 1.1: My Personal Learning Compass
Learning Opportunity 1.2: Creating a Culture of Academic Optimism
Learning Opportunity 1.3: Prioritized Abandonment
Learning Opportunity 1.4: Discovering Our Core Values
Component 2: Shared and Supportive Leadership
Overview and Current Thinking
Learning Opportunity 2.1: Friendly Feedback for the Principal
Learning Opportunity 2.2: A Guide for Making Decisions
Learning Opportunity 2.3: Learning Conversations
Learning Opportunity 2.4: Planting the PLC in a Strong Culture
Learning Opportunity 2.5: Positive Deviance
Learning Opportunity 2.6: Distributed Leadership
Component 3: Structural Conditions
Overview and Current Thinking
Learning Opportunity 3.1: Time and Other Essential Ingredients
Learning Opportunity 3.2: Assessing the Effectiveness of PLC Meetings
Learning Opportunity 3.3: Assessment for PLC Development
Learning Opportunity 3.4: The Learning Community's WORK
Learning Opportunity 3.5: Identifying a PLC Learning Goal
Learning Opportunity 3.6: Traffic Light Indicator
Component 4: Relational Conditions
Overview and Current Thinking
Learning Opportunity 4.1: The Importance of Trust in the PLC
Learning Opportunity 4.2: Group Development
Learning Opportunity 4.3: Mapping Collaborative Interactions
Learning Opportunity 4.4: Relational Conditions
Learning Opportunity 4.5: Building Consensus
Learning Opportunity 4.6: Defusing Conflict in a PLC
Component 5: Intentional Collective Learning and Its Application
Overview and Current Thinking
Learning Opportunity 5.1: Leadership and the Enemies of Learning
Learning Opportunity 5.2: Twelve Principles for Effective Adult Learning
Learning Opportunity 5.3: The PLC Action Plan
Learning Opportunity 5.4: Listening Together in the PLC
Learning Opportunity 5.5: Using the Stages of Concern to Connect
Professional Learning to the Classroom
Learning Opportunity 5.6: Using the Levels of Use (LoU) to Connect
Professional Learning to the Classroom
Learning Opportunity 5.7: PLC Growth Development Profile
Component 6: Sharing Personal Practice
Overview and Current Thinking
Learning Opportunity 6.1: "Foursight" for Learning: Four Focus Areas to
Consider in Monitoring for Student Learning
Learning Opportunity 6.2: Four Conversations
Learning Opportunity 6.3: Coaching: Transferring Adult Learning to the
Classroom or What's Learned Here Leaves Here
Learning Opportunity 6.4: Reflection Protocols
Learning Opportunity 6.5: Video Sharing Protocol
Part IV. Bringing Closure
Resource A
References
Index