POWERFUL PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
IN SCIENCE

Summer Leadership Institute
July 7-10, 2008, Grove Park Inn, Asheville, NC 

Co-hosted by

The technology of professional learning is changing. No longer are teachers participating in workshops as their primary means of learning. As educators learn more from research and practice about how students learn, they also come to understand more about how educators need to learn.

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Note - this is not meant to be a comprehensive recording of the SLI but rather a resource for participants and a sampling for those unable to attend.

Day 1
Listen below or download for later (16 MB, 34 minutes)

The powerpoint mentioned (near 16 minutes) is composed of quotes from an article about swam theory from National Geographic. The movie clip is from Saving Nemo (where Nemo saves his friend from fisherman by getting all the fish in the net to swim downward).

Day 2
Listen below or download for later (22 MB, 47 minutes)

Day 3
Listen below or download for later (12 MB, 27 minutes)

Day 4
Listen below or download for later (4 MB, 8 minutes)

At this conference, participants will explore the differences between professional development and professional learning. They will experience several powerful designs themselves – deeply enough that they will be able to facilitate these designs with the educators with whom they work. They will evaluate current professional learning programs according to a variety of criteria. Then, using a Backmapping Model for planning, implementing, and evaluating professional learning, they will create a plan to remodel current professional learning approaches so that they more closely align with students’ learning needs, meet National Staff Development Council’s standards for staff development, and model the type of learning educators want their students to experience.

Participants will:

  • Have a deep understanding about the differences between professional development and learning because they have experienced at least two professional learning designs.

  • Summarize the components of powerful professional designs in their own words.

  • Match the NSDC standards to the professional learning designs they have experienced.

  • Be able to facilitate at least three powerful designs with their own staff members.

  • Understand the connection between professional learning and student achievement by using the Backmapping Model to plan, implement, and evaluate professional learning (focus on evaluation).

  • Use a visual dialogue design to create indicators of the effect of professional learning

Presenters

Dr. Lois Easton, recently retired as Director of Professional Development at Eagle Rock School and Professional Development Center, Estes Park, Colorado and author of Powerful Designs for Professional Development

Dr. Stevi Quate, Colorado Department of Education and Educational Consultan

For additional information, contact Pat Shane (pshane@unc.edu), Karen Charles (kcharles@rti.org), or Susan Sprague (susansprague@yahoo.com).

Hosted by the North Carolina Science Leadership Association

We appreciate the support and contributions of the following organizations:

Sponsors: McDougal Littell and the North Carolina Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education Center (SMT Center)

Donors: Carolina Biological Supply Co. and Texas Instruments

Conributors: Lab-Aids, Galaxy Classroom and ExploreLearning

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