Differentiated Professional Development

~ LiteracyFrench Creek Elementary

2011-12

Trouble? Or Thoreau?

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. Henry David Thoreau

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Balanced Literacy

Shared Reading / Interactive Read-Aloud

Guided Reading Independent Reading Word Study / Word Work Writing

What else?

Literacy Block Management› Literacy Workstations› Daily 5

Assessment› Using assessment data to guide instruction

Literature Circles Inquiry Based Learning

› Junior Great Books Other?

The “Sisters”

Tip of the Week

Great teachers are not born, they are taught. ~ Deborah Ball, Dean of University of Michigan.

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21 Strategies

The 21 strategies included in Powerful Designs for Professional Learning:•Accessing student voices•Action research•Assessment as professional development•Case discussions•Critical Friends groups•Curriculum design•Data analysis•Immersing teachers in practice•Journaling•Lesson study•Mentoring•Peer coaching•Portfolios for educators•School coaching•Shadowing students•Standards in practice•Study groups•Training the trainer•Tuning protocols•Visual dialogue

The format is up to us…