Make your staff development stick with tips from top pros!This timely guide offers staff developers a wealth of tools and strategies for delivering and coaching successful professional development. This resource focuses on the essential knowledge and tools of four critical roles for staff developers: designing, presenting, facilitating, and coaching. Readers will find techniques for:
- Customizing professional development to fit the unique needs of adult learners
- Organizing a successful workshop
- Incorporating five essential elements for sound training
- Building relationships and community
- Putting ideas into immediate practice using extensive reproducibles, templates, and practical tips
Robin Fogarty is president of Fogarty and Associates, Ltd. She is an international trainer of educators, author and co-author of 30 books on teaching and learning and of many articles, particularly for the Kappan and Ed Leadership. She has consulted with state departments and ministries of education in the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia. She has taught at every level from primary to college, with specialties in gifted education, reading, and integrated curriculum. Her gift for cutting across difficult pedagogical material, translating it and making it not only understandable but irresistible to teaching professionals is nearly legendary among those who know her work. Her books on integrated learning, cooperative learning and brain compatible learning are longtime bestsellers. This book with co-author Brian Pete distills a career of writing and training.