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Designing Professional Development for Change
A Guide for Improving Classroom Instruction
Second Edition
- James Bellanca - International Renewal Institute
September 2008 | 128 pages | Corwin
This compact resource highlights the essential role of professional development in bringing about systemic change that benefits student achievement. The book offers practical methods for designing, promoting, and assessing change and stresses the important role that learning transfer plays in academic improvement and lifelong learning. The new features in this substantially updated revision include: a focus on the site-based professional developer's role as a champion for change in a student-centered learning community; a framework that guides professional developers through three stages of implementation; attention on assessing low-performing students' learning needs as the starting point for creating sustainable change that improves academic achievement schoolwide; emphasis on mediated learning experiences and skillful coaching for adult learners as they gather information and implement new approaches
Preface to the Second Edition
1. Why Change?
2. A Paradigm Shift
3. Getting to the Heart of the Matter
4. Transfer: A Different Way of Learning
5. Learning Transfer in the Learning Community
6. The Three Stages of Professional Development for Change
7. A Reality Check
8. The Sustainability Factor
9. A Professional Developer’s Checklist for Change
References
"Bellanca describes how to successfully design and plan for systemic professional development that empowers all learners to own their learning, which promotes professional growth.”
Maryland State Department of Education
"A practical, easy-to-follow guide for moving toward positive change for schools."
Monroe County Schools, FL
"Offers readers the guiding principles and essential ingredients that must be incorporated into successful professional development programs.”
Indiana University, South Bend