Professional LearningEstablishing Agreements and Developing a Sacred Time

Learning Targets

I can understand the role of the coach and reflect upon how the coach can support student outcomes

I can describe the difference between professional development and professional learning

I can reflect upon how professional learning will increase student learning

I can help to create agreements for our professional time together

Coaches’ Roles

Curriculum SupportInstructional SupportResource ProviderData CoachLearning FacilitatorLearner

vs.Professional

learningProfessional development

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A Word About Terms

The term professional learning is used in place of the term professional development. While some might think the distinction insignificant, in reality, it is not.

Professional learning refers to educators’ continuous learning that is a routine part of their daily practice. Professional learning occurs most often when small teams of colleagues share collective responsibility for student success. Learning teams meet at school, during the school day, and support educators in strengthening and refining their practice to increase student achievement. This kind of professional learning reduces instructional variance across classrooms, taps the expertise within the staff, is immediately applicable and relevant to educator practice, and engages educators in learning with and from one another.

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Identify a project you are working on…

Periodically, we will reflect on the content and ask you to connect these ideas with YOUR work.…

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Learning Forward

Every educator engages in effective professional learning every day so that every student achieves.

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An Assertion

Educators who engage in professional learning are seeking, by default, to get better at what they do.

And the questions educators ask drive the learning.

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Consider the project you are working on…

Please reflect on the new definition and consider how to connect these ideas with YOUR work.…

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Powerful Professional Development

. . . arises from and returns to the world of teaching and learning. It begins with what will really help young people learn, engages those involved in helping them learn, and has an effect on the classrooms (and schools, districts, even states) where those students and their teachers learn.

Lois Easton, Powerful Designs for Professional Learning

Link Professional Learning to Student Results

1. Standards-based

professional learning

2. Changes in educator

knowledge, skills, and dispositions

4. Changes in studentresults

3. Changes in educator practice

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Relationship between Professional Learning and Student Results

1. In teams of four, review the relationship between professional learning and student results

2. Discuss how might you explain these ideas to others.

3. Use a metaphor describe the relationship.

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Determining Agreements

Possible topics to think about:◦Time◦Learning Style◦Question format◦Roles of participants◦Disagreements◦Overall focus

Agreements

Roles and Responsibilities

Facilitator—Timekeeper—Scribe—Focuser—

Rainbow In The Clouds

Maya Angelou

Be Well

Tomorrow—Active Listening