ERIC ED461517: By Your Own Design: A Teacher's Professional Learning Guide.

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By Your Own Design: A Teacher's Professional Learning Guide.
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ABSTRACT
This magazine is published for classroom innovators. The
content of this issue includes:
"Who's the Learner in Learner-Centered?"
(1)
"The Product of a Perfect Partnership" (Tracy Crow);
(Gay Gordon);
(2)
(3)
"E-Learning Potential" (Joan Richardson);
"A Review of 'Evaluating
(4)
Professional Development'" (Gay Gordon);
"Dreaming All That We Might
(5)
Realize" (Dennis Sparks);
"Taking on Loneliness" (Rick DuFour);
(6)
(7)
"Learning To Use Data to Get Results" (Pat Barron, Cathy Behrends, and
Jennifer Feeney);
"Even Better Than Face-to-Face?" (Judy Spicer);
(8)
(9)
"Creating Happy Memories" (Denise Jarrett Weeks);
"Just Because It's
(10)
Online Doesn't Mean It's Learner-Centered!" (Ann-Claire Anderson);
(11)
"Home-Grown Professional Learning" (Ronald Havlice);
(12) "Writing for
Professional Journals" (Pamela Galus);
(13) "Exploring the Unknown--Together"
(Marianne B. Barnes, Patty Crews, Rosanne Curry, and Jackie Simms);
(14)
"Online Professional Development To Support Curriculum Implementation" (Wendy
Gulley, Paul Hickman, and Stephanie Feger);
(15) "Developing Professional
Developers" (Margaret Bondorew and Kathleen S. Coleman);
(16) "Teachers
Becoming Self-Directed Learners: A Work in Progress" (Jane Horwitz and Bonnie
"The Glenn Commission and Professional Development" (Paul
Hallam);
(17)
(18) "From a Science Teacher's Perspective: Working with
Kimmelman);
Scientists Makes All the Difference" (Jan L. French);
(19) "From a Math
Teacher's Perspective: Take Ownership of Your Professional Learning" (Jaclyn
Snyder);
(20) "Listening to Teachers" (Leslie Sears Gordon) ;
(21) "Student
Work around the World" (Erma Anderson) ;
and (22) "Resources for Designing
Your Own Professional Learning" (Carol Damian and Terese Herrera) .
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14 Required Reading:
Taking on Loneliness
24
Update
by Rick DuFour
A Review of Evaluating
Around the Clearinghouse
Professional Development
and the Nation
This Illinois school superintendent
by Gay Gordon
urges teachers to overcome the iso-
lation inherent in their profession by
This section features educational
Good evaluation can inform deci-
forming true learning communities.
sionmaking about professional
news, editorials, essays, classroom
development. Thomas Guskey's
stories, and columns on topics of
26
Learning to Use Data
latest book demystifies the process.
interest to classroom innovators.
to Get Results
16 The Eisenhower Network
by Pat Barron, Cathy Behrends,
6 Editorial
and Jennifer Feeney
Who's the Learner
Focus on
The Central Ohio TIMSS Collab-
in Learner-Centered?
orative is bringing school districts
ByYour Own Design
by Gay Gordon
together to help educators learn to
ATeacher's Professional
use data to improve student achieve-
8 ENC Partners
Learning Guide
ment.
The Product of a Perfect
Partnership
This section presents articles on the
32 Even Better Than
theme of this issue.
by Tracy Crow
Face-to-Face?
by Judy Spicer
Have you noticed the CD-ROM in
Dreaming All That
18
this issue of Focus? ENC could not
An online professional development
We Might Realize
have produced it alone!
course gives participants the cour-
by Dennis Sparks
age to step out of their comfort
12 Using the Internet
zone.
The executive director of the
National Staff Development Coun-
E-learning Potential
Creating Happy
34
cil introduces By Your Own Design:
by Joan Richardson
A Teacher's Professional Learning
Memories
Guide, the CD-ROM included in
The director of publications for the
by Denise Jarrett Weeks
this issue.
National Staff Development Coun-
cil points out that online staff devel-
This excerpt from Northwest
opment has great possibilitiesand
Teacher, a journal published by
pitfalls
the Northwest Eisenhower Regional
Consortium for Mathematics and
Science, describes how teachers use
You Are Hero > Hams
the Japanese Lesson Study tech-
By Your Oven theig.
nique.
37
Just Because It's Online
Doesn't Mean It's
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by Ann-Claire Anderson
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the greatest benefit of online profes-
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39 Home-Grown
From a Math Teacher's
access the Internet for more information,
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more resources, more ideas for your own
Professional
Perspective:
classroom innovations.The electronic version
/
Learning
of this publication will help you get started.
Take Ownership of Your
/
\\ Visit enc.org/focus/pd
by Ronald Hav lice
Professional Learning
-
by Jaclyn Snyder
Teachers in one Ohio district find
success in a Summer Science Insti-
A Pennsylvania mathematics
tute that they design and implement
teacher provides tips for teachers
themselves.
who want to become more involved
50 Teachers Becoming
in their professional development.
42 Writing for Professional
Self-directed Learners:
Journals
A Work in Progress
by Pamela Galus
by Jane Horwitz and Bonnie
Hallam
This Nebraska high school teacher
explains how writing for journals
A collaboration between a university
helps her improve her teaching and
and a Pennsylvania school district
her professionand how you can
gives teachers the knowledge
do it, too.
to design their own professional
development.
44 Exploring the Unknown
Together
53 The Glenn Commission
and Professional
by Marianne B. Barnes, Patty
57 Listening to Teachers
Development
Crews, Rosanne Curry, and
by Leslie Sears Gordon
Jackie Simms
by Paul Kimmelman
This staff developer in Alaska
With an Urban Systemic Initiative
The professional growth of teachers
explains how listening to teachers'
grant, a Florida school district and
is a key concern of the National
needs generated a program that
a university use inquiry-based learn-
Commission on Mathematics and
bencfits both teachers and students.
ing and a rnentoring network to sup-
Science Teaching for the 2Ist
port beginning science teachers.
Century.
59 Student Work
46 Online Professional
Around the World
54 From a Science Teacher's
Development
by Erma Anderson
Perspective:
to Support Curriculum
Working with Scientists
A multinational program uses stu-
Implementation
Makes All the Difference
dent work to help teachers build on
by Wendy Gulley, Paul Hick-
data from the Third International
by Jan L. French
man, and Stephanie Feger
Mathematics and Science Study
(TIMSS).
A science teacher's
These Massachusetts professional
enthusiasm soars
developers provide an online
to new heights at
cus on
program that exemplifies the char-
NASA's Kennedy
the Collection
acteristics of good professional
Space Center.
development.
This section presents descriptions of
48 Developing Professional
exemplary resources from the ENC
Developers
Collection selected to illustrate this
by Margaret Bondorew
issue's theme.
and Kathleen S. Coleman
60 Resources for Designing
A project of the Center for the
Enhancement of Science and
Your Own Professional
Mathematics Education (CESAME)
Learning
delivers professional development
by Carol Damian
to trainers and coaches.
and Terese Herrera
61 Featured Resources
Update...
Editorial
Who's the Learner
Around the
in Learner-Centered?
Clearinghouse
and the Nation
by Gay Gordon, ENC Publishing
Arcport titled "Revisioning Professional Development" from the National
Partnership for Excellence and Accountability in Teaching (NPEAT) was
Journal of Staff Development.
The
included in the summer 2000 issue of the
report discusses the need for learner-centered professional development for
This section
teachers and developing professional learning communities in schools. The
NPEAT project, established to study and influence the quality of teaching, has
features columns,
now been concluded.
At the time the report came out, we were getting ready to host the ATA
essays, and news
(Authentic Task Approach) Institute (see pages 9 and 26), and the report
of interest
caught our attention. During the ATA Institute, we referred many participants
to the report because it seemed to fit so well with our goals. The Authentic
to classroom
Task Approach-models learner-centered professional development by requiring
teams to engage in goal setting and meaningful work on a task of their choice.
innovators.
An ATA program is decidedly not endless presentations and more "sit and get."
For a long time, we used the title "Learner-Centered Professional Develop-
Focusin
fact, that was
Ment" for the enclosed CD-ROM and this issue of
the title announced months ago in this magazine. But we found that many
pe'ople were baffled by the learner-centered part. Did it mean that professional
development is somehow focused on student learning? Or did it mean that
the teacher is the learner? People seemed to think that it had to be one or
the otherit couldn't be both. When people asked me "Does this refer to the
teacher or the student?" I just said yes, and suggested they read the NPEAT
report.
What is the Eisenhower
To quote the report, "...conditions for optimum student learning have their
National Clearinghouse?
counterparts in environments for teacher learning." And "...a teacher's profes-
sional life centers on what defines him or her as a teacherknowledge of what
Funded through a contract with
students should be learning and the expertise to enable all students to be suc-
the Office of Educational
cessful at meeting high standards. It is a totally learner-centered environment."
Research and Improvement of
In other words, you can't distinguish between teachers and students as learners
the U.S. Department of Educa-
in a learning community.
tion, ENC was created in 1992
Focus
By Your
What we're striving for with this issue of
and the CD-ROM,
to collect and catalog curriculum
Own Design: A Teacher's Professional Learning Guide,
is a time when people
resources for K-12 mathematics
don't need an explanation of learner-centered. Everyone is a learner, and profes-
and science-educators and-to
sional development is as much about the student as the teacher. Teachers won't
disseminate information about
federally funded educational pro-
usams. Our products and services
have evolved to include a web
Revisioning professional
site;-ENe-Orrline-Cen-corg); ENC,
development sounds like
Focus, a free quarterly magazine;
a great place to get started
and numerous other publications
on the CD-ROM!
and services. For more informa-
tion on ENC's vast collection of
That's exactly where
you will find itclick
curriculum resources, see page
Get started and
60.
choose Introduction
for this report and
much morel
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