This document provides the agenda for a seminar and practicum course on literacy professional development. It includes sharing final coaching reflections, discussing professional development models and topics, sharing a selected journal article and how it could be used, and celebrating accomplishments. Participants will partner to exchange and provide feedback on professional journal samples. The document outlines discussions on planning multidimensional professional development based on a chapter reading, including needs assessments, goals, and workshop structure. Participants will collaborate on preliminary plans for professional discussions using selected journal articles.

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 in place in
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 (See sample plan pp. 227-
230): Understanding teacher
development? Evidence-based
PD? Multilayered PD?
Sustained PD?
PAGE 227: Components of 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? TONIGHT!!

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

9. 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 study group,
what discussion
questions would you
develop to support the
group interactions about
this article?
•How might the topic
of this article fit
within a broader topic
of need or interest for
the teachers where
you work?

10. Planning Professional
Development or Discussion
POTENTIAL STEPS
•Identify needs and
purpose.
•Plan the content &
resources (in this case,
a journal article).
•What are the goals,
objectives & “take
aways” for
participants?
•How to begin?
Anticipatory set? Set
context & relevance.
•Determine activities or
discussion protocol.
•Time to think & make
connections: Individual?
Pair-Share? Small
group? Share out?
•Potential applications?
Questions? Next steps?
•Conclusion and
evaluation.

11. Collaborations & preliminary planning
for a professional discussion
•Select one journal article from the ones
you & your classmate(s) read.
•Use the steps addressed in the previous
slide to sketch a plan to support a
professional discussion using this
article.
•Peruse the discussion protocol
resources & consider selecting one to
support this potential discussion.

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

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

14. SHARING PROFESSIONAL
JOURNAL JOURNALS
&
TOASTING
ACCOMPLISHMENTS &
CELEBRATIONS

15. 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!
• You are ALWAYS welcome to email with Qs & news!