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Cultivate a Proactive & Efficient Learning by Doing Culture In Teacher Development Do your teachers have the expertise to produce the best outcomes in every context? Do they confidently and intentionally inquire, adapt, and change based on student needs? This book offers a deep exploration into cultivating a culture of design thinking--a proactive process where teachers work through iterative design cycles and understand how to make 'what works best' work.
- Explore how specific design and leadership approaches can form a framework for leading teacher professional learning
- Learn to navigate through complex educational environments
- Learn from illustrative action items, vignettes, and real-life examples and results
List of contents
Chapter 1. Teacher Professional Learning
Chapter 2. Leading Teacher Learning
Chapter 3. Adaptive Teaching Teams and Collaborative Expertise
Chapter 4. Evaluative Thinking and Expertise Pathways
Chapter 5. Understanding and Developing Teaching Dispositions
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Ryan Dunn, PhD, has twenty years’ experience as an educational leader, teacher, and researcher. Ryan has advised schools and systems in the United States, Canada, Singapore and Australia to develop innovative educational solutions. He has worked extensively in the United States, where he led large-scale research and professional learning initiatives in New York City and California. Ryan is a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne, where he focuses on teacher professional learning, educational leadership, middle leadership, and implementation science.
John Hattie, PhD, is an award-winning education researcher and best-selling author with nearly thirty years of experience examining what works best in student learning and achievement. His research, better known as Visible Learning, is a culmination of nearly thirty years synthesizing more than 2,100 meta-analyses comprising more than one hundred thousand studies involving over 300 million students around the world. He has presented and keynoted in over three hundred international conferences and has received numerous recognitions for his contributions to education. His notable publications include Visible Learning, Visible Learning for Teachers, Visible Learning and the Science of How We Learn; Visible Learning for Mathematics, Grades K-12; and 10 Mindframes for Visible Learning.
