Professional Learning in Action

An Inquiry Approach for Teachers of Literacy

Victoria J Risko author MaryEllen Vogt author Susan B Neuman editor D Ray Reutzel editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Teachers' College Press

Published:15th Jul '16

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Risko and Vogt provide a unique and progressive approach for engaging the professional learning of teachers of literacy, reading specialists, literacy coaches and instructional leaders, content specialists, and administrators. Their deliberate use of Professional Learning signals the importance of educators engaging in authentic and inquiry-based decision-making. They describe and provide examples of needs assessments and progress monitoring activities that are embedded within differentiated professional learning activities, such as book clubs, lesson study, family literacy groups, and peer and literacy coaching. Actions and decisions are directed by questions generated by teachers, coaches, and administrators as they engage in collaborative and self-directed efforts to advance their knowledge and resolve dilemmas that impact instruction and students’ learning.

Book Features:

  • Provides authentic examples for implementing professional learning (PL) that addresses and resolves authentic dilemmas educators and students face.
  • Synthesizes current research on effective professional learning with a literacy emphasis.
  • Describes evidence-based and differentiated professional learning opportunities that engage instructional changes that are situated within meaningful and school-based applications.
  • Advances knowledge about applications of professional learning that is collaborative, substantive, situated, dynamic, intense, and personal.
  • Makes explicit connections to Common Core and similar State standards-based instruction.
  • Includes reflection and self-study questions at the end of each chapter.
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"Through research-based recommendations for structures that guide the generation of questions centered on problems of practice, this text provides and advocates for a theoretical framework for addressing the needs of adult learners through a systematized approach to inquiry-based professional learning."

Teachers College Record

ISBN: 9780807757024

Dimensions: 229mm x 156mm x 9mm

Weight: 247g

174 pages