MMSTLC Leadership Session Presentation on Designing Professional Development Activities

1. Designing ProfessionalDesigning Professional
DevelopmentDevelopment
Michigan Mathematics and
Science Teacher Leadership
Collaborative

2. Michigan ProfesionalMichigan Profesional
Development StandardsDevelopment Standards
Review:
Content
Context
Process

3. Strategies for ProfessionalStrategies for Professional
Learning fromLearning from

4. Six Categories of LearningSix Categories of Learning
StrategiesStrategies
1) Aligning and Implementing
Curriculum
2)Collaborative Structures
3)Examining Teaching and Learning
4)Immersion Experiences
5)Practicing Teaching
6)Vehicles and Mechanisms

5. Purposes of Different ProfessionalPurposes of Different Professional
Learning StrategiesLearning Strategies

6. Strategies for ProfessionalStrategies for Professional
LearningLearning
Reader’s Digest Version
•Category
 Underlying Assumptions
•Strategies with the category
 Key Elements
 Implementation Requirements
 Examples and Commentary

7. Strategies for ProfessionalStrategies for Professional
Learning TaskLearning Task
•Divide into six groups by color
•Each color group will become experts
on an assigned strategy
Yellow = Curriculum Implementation
Blue = Study Groups
Green = Examining Student Work
Red = Immersion in Inquiry
White = Demonstration Lessons
Orange = Technology

8. Strategies for ProfessionalStrategies for Professional
Learning TaskLearning Task
•Become experts on your assigned
strategy
 Read summaries for the strategy on
handout
 Read examples and commentary
from the book
 Discuss with group

9. Strategies for ProfessionalStrategies for Professional
Learning TaskLearning Task
•Be prepared to report out:
 Brief description of the strategy
 How the strategy fits the Michigan
PD standards in content, context,
and process

10. Reflection and DiscussionReflection and Discussion
Professional
Development Audit
Questions
1)Reassemble in teams
2)Discuss items on audit sheet