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MELL Conference, St. Louis November 2010

“ ExcELL”erate Your Professional Development Allyson Hile , ESL Resource Teacher Anne Sewell, ESL Resource Teacher Kansas City, MO School District. MELL Conference, St. Louis November 2010. Post-it Note Activity.

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MELL Conference, St. Louis November 2010

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  1. “ExcELL”erate Your Professional DevelopmentAllyson Hile, ESL Resource TeacherAnne Sewell, ESL Resource TeacherKansas City, MO School District MELL Conference, St. Louis November 2010

  2. Post-it Note Activity Where do you and your school fall on the PD Continuum? Place your Post-it on the continuum.

  3. PD Continuum Sit and Get Supportive Job-embedded collaborative Instructionally- focused On-going

  4. Effective Professional Development A Review of the Research: Brozo and Fisher (2010) 1. manageable number of new strategies 2. move from workshop to classroom 3. establish forums for teacher empowerment 4. vary the formats used in staff development 5. start with those most eager, then spread the learning

  5. Research Review cont… Linda Darling-Hammond & Nikole Richardson, Stanford University: • Focused on specific curriculum content • Organized around real problems of practice • Connected to teachers’ work with children • Linked to analysis of teaching and student learning • Intensive, sustained and continuous over time • Supported by coaching, modeling, observation, and feedback • Connected to teachers’ collaborative work in professional learning communities • Integrated into school and classroom planning around curriculum, instruction, and assessment

  6. Research Review cont… Guskey (2003) and Hunziker (2010) Professional development must enhance not only the teachers’ knowledge of pedagogy, but also their content knowledge Hunziker (2010) Job-embedded Instructionally-focused Collaborative Ongoing

  7. Today’s Purpose • Identify and apply components of effective professional development to building PD and classroom instruction • Reflect on (orally and in writing) on how to implement effective components of professional development

  8. Stand Up, Sit Down • Everyone stand up! • Sit down if you are: • A district or building administrator • Counselor • Instructional coach/PD specialist/teacher trainer • ESL teacher • Mainstream teacher • Other- Who did we miss? • Stand up if you are here with a building TEAM!

  9. ELL Simulation Think of a really delicious meal you had recently. What was it? Where were you? What did it smell like? Taste like? Visualize the meal. Now turn to a partner and describe your meal using as many sensory details as possible. BUT WAIT!!! As you describe the meal, you may not use any words with the letter “n”!

  10. Simulation cont… We would like you to take a moment and write a paragraph about the symbolism and significance of this image. Use academic vocabulary, but…. YOU MAY NOT USE WORDS WITH THE LETTER “N”!

  11. ELL Simulation Debriefing Reflection Team planning using Action Plan Form Share out

  12. Action Plan Form Time to reflect and plan! With your building team (or individually) think of how you can apply the ELL simulation to PD and classroom instruction. Describe the activity. How will you follow-up on it? Who will be responsible?

  13. Human Word Sort • Pick one vocabulary card. • Sort yourselves into groups. • In your group, discuss why your vocabulary words belong together and come up with a group name. • Share out.

  14. Categories and Languages Math Fruit Science Languages= Spanish, French and Swahili

  15. Check Yourself!

  16. Human Word Sort Debriefing Reflection Team planning using Action Plan Form Share out

  17. Vocab On Your Back • Everyone will get a vocabulary word or term taped to their back. You will not know your word! • Find a partner and look at their word. Give your partner clues, ACADEMIC clues, to help them guess their word. • If you get your partner to guess their word, YOU get to keep their card. It is your point. • The person with the most points wins!

  18. Vocab On Your Back Debriefing Reflection Team planning using Action Plan Form Share out

  19. Did we…. • Identify components of effective professional development? • Apply the components to building PD and classroom instruction? • Reflect on and discuss how to implement the components of effective PD?

  20. Resources • Characteristics of Effective Professional Development: A Checklist by Dr. Jana Hunzicker, Bradley University, June 2010 • Professional Learning in the Learning Profession: A Status Report on Teacher Development in the United States and Abroad, February 2009, National Staff Development Council • Dr. Jim Knight, University of Kansas, www.instructionalcoach.org • For this powerpoint and additional resources: http://ellcoaching.wikispaces.com/

  21. Have a great conference! Allyson Hileahile@kcmsd.net Anne Sewell asewell@kcmsd.net

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