LCRT 6915 2

1. May 4, 2015
• Welcome back F2F!!!!
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• Sit in your coaching groups
WELCOME TO
LCRT 6915:
SEMINAR & PRACTICUM IN
LITERACY PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT

2. Tonight’s Agenda
 Share Final Coaching Reflections & share out
important “take aways”
 Professional Development: Models, topics, and
relevant considerations
 Share the journal article you selected: Consider how
you could use it for a professional discussion in your
current context.
 BREAK and LLCRT course evaluation for 6915
 Celebrate & Share Professional Journal samples

3. - Partner with 1-2 classmates
- Exchange papers & read
- Jot down key themes &
consistent “take aways”
FINAL COACHING
REFLECTIONS

4. CHAPTER 11
“PLANNING & IMPLEMENTING
MULTIDIMENSIONAL
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT”

5. Planning & Implementing
Multidimensional Professional
Development
You reviewed the 2 vignettes on pp.
216-218
What are 3-5 advantages you noted
about the 2nd vignette that support a
successful exchange?

6. Supports & Needs relevant to
successful professional development
• Needs assessment with teachers’ input
• Allow teachers to contribute to collaborative goals for the PD
• Differentiate the PD to allow for a range of teachers’
knowledge
• Structure PD to allow for teachers’ talk, collaboration, follow-
up
• Arrange for professional developer to observe in the school &
teachers’ classrooms BEFORE the PD is planned & delivered
• Food and a variety of resources (not just one article)
• BUDGET: Did you know some university faculty offer 1 session
PD “pro bono” ? Or can integrate PD into “seed grants” (small
funding)?

7. Aspects of the chapter that resonated
Discussed ONLINE
PAGE 218: Models of
professional development:
Multidimensional pd?
Transmission model?
Constructivist model?
PAGE 221: Creating a
professional development
plan: Understanding teacher
development? Evidence-based
PD? Multilayered PD?
Sustained PD?
PAGE 225: Checklist for PD plan:
Goals, materials & approaches, study
groups, resources, presentations or
workshops; coaching teachers?
Page 221-222: Topics & Models used?
What is the selection process for PD
topics? What are the features of PD
models?...in the district where you
work?
PAGE 233: Structuring a PD workshop:
How to prepare it? Goals? Opening?
Agenda? Use of humor? Content?
Learning activities? Workshop
conclusion?

8. CHAPTER 12
“LEADING GROWTH &
CHANGE”

9. Continuing Your Professional Journey
1) What role in literacy
leadership are you
involved in currently
in your context?
2) What literacy
leadership role might
you take on in the
near future in this
context? In a
different context?
3) What leadership
qualities do you display?
• Strategic thinking;
• People-relatedness:
• Urgency & accountability;
• Cultural attention;
• Coaching/supporting
others.
• OTHERS?

10. Share the article you read
• Why did you select this
article?
• What does the topic reveal
about the needs within the
context where you work?

11. The article you selected & read
• To what extent might it be
relevant for your team mates or
colleagues?
• If you were to use this article to
launch a professional discussion,
what discussion questions
would you develop to support
the group interactions about this
article?

12. Collaborations & preliminary planning
for a professional discussion
•Select one journal article from the
ones you & your classmate(s)
read.
•Peruse the discussion protocol
resources & select one you would
use with this article.
•Be ready to explain & share out.

13. Share your plan to support a
professional discussion using
this article.
SHARE OUT

14. TAKE A BREAK
AND
COMPLETE THE
LLCRT 6915 COURSE
EVALUATION

15. SHARING PROFESSIONAL
JOURNALS
&
TOASTING
ACCOMPLISHMENTS &
CELEBRATIONS

16. Concluding Comments
• Submit your Coaching Reflection to CANVAS by Tues, May
6th
• All philosophy papers should be submitted to Canvas &
Livetext by May 6th
• If you are graduating in May, GOOD LUCK & STAY IN
TOUCH!!! We WILL remember you years from now!
• If you are graduating AFTER May, I hope our paths cross in
the near future! We WILL remember you too!
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