Teacher Professional Development Resources

Continuous teacher growth is the driving force behind continuous student achievement. I posted a blog titled, There Is No Mountaintop, to illustrate that every year a teacher’s learning from the previous year can advance his/her skills and positively impact student learning. In addition, this new learning opens the door to new questions and ideas. If you place everything you know about teaching and learning inside of a balloon, the outside of the balloon represents areas for future learning.

Videos

Blogs and Podcasts:

Blog Archive:

1. Educator Learning for Student Learning: Coaching Impact
2. Leadership Teams
3. Feedback for Students and Teachers
4. Focusing on Learning
5. Scaling Teachers Up or Cutting Them Loose?
6. PLCs and Coaching for Teacher and Student Learning
7. Nurturing Teachers’ Curiosity
8. Value from Coaching and Collaboration
9. Teachers Using What They Know To Increase Student Learning
10. Moving Learning Walk Insights to Teacher Change
11. Teachers’ Peer Observations: Reflecting and Learning
12. International School Leadership Opportunity
13. Working & Learning Online With Steve Barkley
14. Case Study: The Austin Independent School District
15. Motivation: Feeling Great About the Work You Are Doing
16. Exploring Feedback
17. Empathy and Leadership
18. Teachers’ Soft Skills: Critical to School Success
19. Looking at Climate and School Culture from Another Lens
20. Administrators’ and Instructional Coaches’ Involvement in PLCs
21. Leadership Actions to Lead Teams
22. Identifying Evidence for Progress on Process
23. Accountability
24. Planning Questions for Critical Thinking and Learning
25. Teachers Taking the Lead
26.  Teacher Pause and Student Thinking
27. Learning in Roleplay, Simulations, and Live-Events
28. Teachers Observing Teaching
29. Finding Understanding with Same/Different Exploration
30. Increasing Student Participation in Learning Conversations
31. Reflection and Insights
32. Teacher Talk and Student Talk
33. Five Core Communication Skills for Student to Student and Teacher to Teacher Dialogue
34. Planning Instruction from Student Outcome Goals
35. School Leaders: Getting Teacher Input or Empowering Teachers
36. Belonging and Relationships
37. Facilitating Discussions In Classrooms Using the Fishbowl Strategy
38. Motivate Your Team with Guest Speaker Jim Malanowski
39. Comfortable with Discomfort
40. Teaching and Leading With Stories
41. Managing vs. Leading
42. Team or Franchise?
43. Teaching & Learning Perseverance
44. My Responses to Coaching Questions
45. The Coach Approach to School Leadership
46. Play, Do, Learn
47. Bloom’s Taxonomy and Questions for Life
48. Exploring and Coaching Teacher Credibility
49. Thoughts on Mentoring and Supporting Beginning Teachers, Part 1
50. Thoughts on Mentoring and Supporting Beginning Teachers, Part 2
51. Responding to a Teacher’s Classroom Problem
52. Engaging Students for Maximum Learning
53. Stretching to Learn
54. The Impact of Knowing and Being Known
55. Guiding Learning From Complex to Patterns
56. Exploring Classroom Management
57. Trust and Vulnerability
58. Exploring Multi-Grade and Multi-Level Learning
59. What do our students need us to learn?
60. Effective Professional Development
61. Recognizing the Value of Success Skills
62. Teacher Professional Goals
63. Modernizing Assessment
64. Passion in Teaching and Learning
65. The Beginning of the School Year Messages
66. Building Trust to Support Teacher Growth
67. When Do Teachers Cooperate and When Do They Collaborate
68. Success Skills for New Teachers
69. Is the Leadership Team a Team?
70. Grades and Reliability
71. Conversations Focused on Student Learning
72. Watching Play, Watching Learning
73. Observing Student Production Behaviors
74. Creating Opportunities to Develop Collective Teacher Efficacy
75. Lifeguard or Swim Coach? The Role of Struggle
76. Continuing ISG Jubail’s Coaching Conversation with Emma Ahmed
77. Looking Back and Looking Forward
78. Supporting Teachers in Successful Parent Conferences
79. Designing and Facilitating Discussions for Inquiry and Learning
80. Caring, Vulnerability and Trust
81. Supporting Parents Supporting Learners
82. Supporting Educator Learning to Build Student Learning
83. Coaching Co-Teaching
84. Professional Growth Plans
85. The Letting Go Paradox in Leading and Teaching
86. Developing and Coaching Teachers’ Professional Growth Plans
87. Where to Begin with a Beginning Teacher
88. An Environment for Growth: The Role of Vulnerability and Discomfort
89. Moving from Fear to Growth
90. Teacher Resilience and Teacher Collaboration

Downloads & Links:

• Effective Teacher
  Professional Development Report
• The Coaching of Teaching – By Bruce Joyce and Beverly Showers