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:

1. Professional Learning for Student Achievement
2. What are the dual roles of teaching that coaches must address in their work?

    

3. How can a year-long Professional Development plan help school leaders and teachers?

    

Blogs:

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

Podcasts:

1. Maximizing Learning
2. Comfortable with Discomfort
3. Warm Demanders
4. Designing the Environment
5. Reading Student Engagement
6. Dilemma of Grades
7. Developing Critical Soft Skills
8. The Power of Optimism Pt. 1
9. The Power of Optimism, Part 2
10. Compelling Why’s
11. Developing Critical Soft Skills
12. From the Pool to the Classroom
13. Tapping Student Effort – Pictures of Success
14. Celebrating a School Success
15. Technology: Teaching & Learning
16. Looking at New Designs for Teacher Learning
17. Reflecting on Scaffolding
18. Modifying Schedules to Increase Student Learning
19. Guiding Learning from the Complex to the Pattern
20. Talking In Class – Increasing the Quality and Quantity of Student-to-Student Dialogue in the Classroom
21. Teaching and Learning With Simulations & Live Events
22. Increasing Perseverance by Translating Goals into Behaviors
23. Taking The Lead – New Roles for Teachers & School Based Coaches
24. Multi-Year Teacher Collaboration
25. Focusing on Learning or Teaching?
26. Pre-Conferencing – A Critical Element to Effective Coaching
27. Play, Do, Learn
28. Relationships: How Do We Build Them?
29. Planning Backwards: Goals and Evidence
30. How Houses Within a School Help Build Relationships & Belonging
31. Meaningful Learning Environments
32. Observing Student Learning Production Behaviors
33. Teachers’ Skills and Beliefs to Support Project Based Learning
34. Physical Literacy
35. Stories & Relationships
36. Teaching & Coaching with Learning Style Preferences
37. Engaging Students in Project Based Learning
38. Creating Questions for Learning
39. Knowledge, Attitude, Skills & Habits
40. Teaching & Learning With Multiple Intelligences
41. Signs of Engagement in Quality Learning
42. Student Success Skills Pt. 1
43. Student Success Skills Pt. 2
44. A Look at Differentiated Instruction
45. Shaping Belief Systems That Support Continuous Teacher Efficacy
46. Building Student Responsibility
47. Desirable Learning Difficulties to Increase Learning
48. The Teacher’s Role in Student Motivation
49. The Impact of Knowing: Creating Opportunities to Ask & Listen
50. Teaching Strategies
51. Student Success Skills: Self Management, Empathy & Resilience
52. Learning From Failure and Success
53. Repeat Student-Teacher Matches
54. Exploring Teacher Communication Skills
55. Rethinking Goals as Hypotheses
56. Modernizing Assessment: A Conversation With Tom Schimmer
57. The Power of Peers: Students Supporting Students

Downloads & Links:

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