| Description |
1 online resource (257 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Publisher's Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Introduction -- Evolution of the Professional Growth Plan Process -- Questioning Teacher Evaluation and Professional Development -- Redefining School Improvement -- Establishing New Priorities -- Empowering Teachers -- Recognizing Teachers as Learners -- The Professional Growth Plan: Designing a Tool for Staff Development -- A How-To Guide to Implementing the Growth Plan Process -- How to Use This Book -- All Learning is Local -- Chapter 1 -- Professional Growth: Defining the What, Why, Who, and How -- What is Professional Growth? -- What is a Professional Growth Plan? -- What is the Professional Growth Plan Process? -- Why Use the Professional Growth Plan Process? -- Building on the Foundation of Knowledge and Experience -- Providing Learning Opportunities -- Shaping a Learning Community -- Who can Use a Growth Plan? -- Group Growth Plans -- Who can Lead the Professional Growth Plan Process? -- How to Implement the Professional Growth Plan Process Successfully -- Encouraging New Traditions in Professional Growth -- Chapter 2 -- Managing the Professional Growth Plan Process -- Operational Issues -- Allocating Resources -- Resource Allocation Considerations -- Available Resources Versus Needs-A Balancing Act -- Typical Resource Needs -- Acquiring Additional Resources -- Who Has the Time? -- Organizing People, Events, and Information -- Forms-How can They Help? -- Forms Track the Growth Plan Process -- Forms Facilitate Communication -- Forms Provide Documentation -- The Problem with Forms -- Introducing the Process to Staff -- Soliciting Participants -- Professional Growth Plan Participant Blackline Master Guide -- The Professional Growth Plan Format -- Explanation of Professional Growth Plan Components -- The Role of Participant Blacklines |
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The School Leader as Coach and Advisor -- Chapter 3 -- Identifying Areas for Professional Growth -- The First of Four Phases -- Targeting Professional Growth -- Conducting a Personal Needs Assessment -- Comparing Current Practices to Established Professional Performance Standards/Best Practices Research -- Reviewing and Understanding Professional Performance Standards and Best Practices Research -- Examining Relevant Student Performance Data -- Facilitating Data Analysis -- Linking Practice and Performance -- Needs Assessment and the School Leader -- The Needs-Assessment Conference -- Common Needs-Assessment Conference Problems -- The Needs-Assessment Conference Record -- If Needs Assessment is Not Feasible -- Choosing a Topic: Focusing the Professional Growth Plan -- A Collaborative Growth Plan -- Logistics of a Group Plan -- Chapter 4 -- Designing the Professional Growth Plan -- The Second Phase: Plan Design -- What's in Store -- Guiding the Design Process -- Establishing Professional Goals -- Where Do Goals Come from? -- What Makes a Good Goal? -- Establishing Learner-Centered Goals -- Can Goals Change? -- Establishing the Questions -- Creating the Essential Question -- The Pursuit of Answers -- Creating Related Questions -- Designing an Action Plan -- Action Plan Learning -- Can an Action Plan Change? -- Designing Group Action Plans -- Evaluating the Proposed Action Plan -- Alternatives to an Action Plan -- Identifying Modes of Documentation -- What is an Artifact? -- Organizing Artifacts -- Documentation: A Product and a Process -- Where Will Artifacts Come from? -- Artifacts: What to Keep? -- The Role of Artifacts and Reflection -- Documenting Growth -- Identifying Baseline Data -- Defining Methods of Evaluation -- Helping Those with Data Phobia -- Identifying Resource Needs -- Choosing a Method for Sharing Results with the Learning Community |
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Why Share Professional Growth Plans? -- Methods of Sharing -- The Effect of School Climate on Sharing -- Who is the Learning Community? -- Matching Purpose with Audience -- The School Leader as Architect of the Learning Community -- Finalizing the Growth Plan -- Chapter 5 -- Professional Growth Plans in Progress -- Implementation and Monitoring -- Monitoring the Process -- Forms Assist in Monitoring -- Formal Monitoring: Progress Meetings -- Informal Monitoring: Listening, Watching, Visiting -- Deciding What is Not Working and Why -- Protecting the Integrity of the Professional Growth Plan Process -- Interim Sharing: What Has Happened So Far? -- Troubleshooting: What Happens If. . . . -- Preparing for the Final Phase -- Chapter 6 -- Completing the Growth Plan Process -- Plan Evaluation -- Growth Plan Summary Activities -- Summarizing the Growth Plan Experience-What Happened? -- The Growth Plan Summary Conference -- The Summary Conference and Group Growth Plans -- Evaluating Documentation of Professional Growth -- Sharing with the Learning Community -- Guidelines for the Presentation to the Learning Community -- Wrapping up the Professional Growth Plan Process -- Chapter 7 -- The Process Continues -- Second Generation Plans and Beyond -- Impediments to the Process -- The Professional Growth Plan Process is School Improvement -- The School Leader as Mechanic and Change Agent -- Resource A: School Leader Blacklines -- Resource B: Participant Blacklines -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
Offers school leaders guidance for designing and implementing a sustainable professional growth process, demonstrates how participants can develop individual action plans, and helps redefine school improvement efforts |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781412949316 |
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1412949319 |
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