Name: From Staff Room to Classroom By Robin J. Fogarty
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From Staff Room to Classroom: A Guide for Planning and Coaching Professional Development by Robin J. Fogarty

The definitive book about planning and presenting professional development that energizes and empowers adult learners. Captures the heart and soul of the process.
-Kay Burke, International Consultant
Author, From Standards to Rubrics in 6 Steps

Make your staff development stick with tips from top pros!

With new initiatives and requirements for classroom teaching and assessment, the challenges for staff developers are growing. Internationally recognized authors and consultants Robin Fogarty and Brian Pete help readers meet those challenges head-on. This book shares their deep expertise with tools to successfully guide staff to the highest levels of effectiveness, ultimately leading to greater student achievement.

From Staff Room to Classroom is built around four critical roles of the staff developer: designing, presenting, facilitating, and coaching. Rich with theoretical underpinnings, this book drills down to the essentials for each aspect and role. Offering concrete help for working with teachers using myriad real-life mentoring and coaching scenarios for reference and inspiration, this practical guide presents 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

Focus on strategies that address your specific needs or simply follow the guide from beginning to end. This amazing tool kit of wisdom, know-how, and how-to is built on the expertise of tried-and-true best practices that work!

From Staff Room to Classroom Reviews

The definitive book about planning and presenting professional development that energizes and empowers adult learners. Captures the heart and soul of the process. -- Kay Burke, International Consultant
Fogarty has held true to her beliefs about professional development: 'accentuate the practical' and 'honor the teacher.' The authors bring the best of their many years of experience by putting these principles at the center of their sage and practical advice for professional developers. -- Jim Bellanca, President
Provides templates and models that could be adapted for more insights into adult learning. In addition, rubrics and practical strategies are included to support curriculum design for adults. The book also provides a basic overview for those who want to gain a clearer understanding of the adult learner. -- PsycCRITIQUES, October 2007, Vol. 52(41)

About Robin J. Fogarty

Robin Fogarty is President of RFA: A Robin Fogarty Company, a Chicago-based, minority-owned, educational publishing/consulting company. Robin received her doctorate in curriculum and human resource development from Loyola University of Chicago. A leading proponent of the thoughtful classroom, Robin has trained educators throughout the world in curriculum, instruction and assessment strategies. She has taught at all levels, from kindergarten to college, served as an administrator, and consulted with state departments and ministries of education in the United States, Puerto Rico, Russia, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Great Britain, Singapore, South Korea, the Netherlands, the Kingdom of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. Robin has published articles in Educational Leadership, Phi Delta Kappan, The Journal of Staff Development and The Middle School Lournal. She is the author of numerous publications, including Brain-Compatible Classrooms, Literacy Matters, Ten Things New Teachers Need, How to Integrate the Curricula, The Adult Learner, A Look at Transfer, Close the Achievement Gap, Twelve Brain Principles, Nine Best Practices, and From Staff Room to Classroom: Planning and Coaching Professional Learning, How to Teach Thinking Skills Within the Common Core: 7 Key Student Proficiencies of the New National Standards, Invite! Excite! Ignite! 13 Principles for Teaching, Learning and Leading K-12 classrooms Robin received her Bachelor of Arts in Early Childhood Education at SUNY, Potsdam, NY, and her Masters in Instructional Strategies from National Louis University in Evanston, IL. She is known as the teachers' teacher and has mentored numerous colleagues in the art and science of working with the adult learner. She brings a wealth of knowledge and passion to all endeavors, has a wealth of knowledge in the field and conducts highly interactive PD sessions. Brian M. Pete, co-founder of Robin Fogarty & Associates, comes from a family of educators-college professors, school superintendents, teachers and teachers of teachers. He has a rich background in professional development. Brian has worked with the adult learner in districts and educational agencies throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand and the GCC in the Middle East. He has an eye for the teachable moment and the words to describe what he sees as skillful teaching. He delivers dynamic, humor-filled sessions that energize the audiences with engaging strategies that transfer into immediate and practical on site applications. Comments from school leaders often say that it is the best PD the staff has ever had. ? Brian is co-author of: How to Teach Students to Think Within the Common Core, School Leaders Guide to Common Core Achieving Results,Supporting Differentiated Instruction: A PLC Approach, From Staff Room to Classroom: A Guide to Planning and Coaching Professional Learning, From Staff Room to Classroom II: The One-Minute PD Planner and The Right to Be Literate: 6 Literacy Strategies for the 21st Century. His works in progress include two pieces, one on inquiry learning with a focus on Problem-based Learning and the other on how to explicitly teach thinking skills in IB International Schools.

Acknowledgments Acknowledgments From the Publisher Introduction A Look at the Book A Peek at the Chapter Highlights An Invitation About the Authors 1. A Guide to the Change Process The Change Process Tools to Use 2. A Guide to the Adult Learner The Adult Learner Tools to Use 3. A Guide to Site-Based Professional Development Evolution of Professional Development Tools to Use 4. A Guide to the Role of Designing Professional Learning Desiging Role Three Essential Elements Tools to Use 5. A Guide to the Role of Presenting Professional Learning Experiences The Presenting Role Tools to Use 6. A Guide to the Role of Facilitating Professional Learning The Facilitating Role Tools to Use 7. A Guide to the Role of Coaching Professional Learning The Coaching Role Tools to Use 8. A Guide to the Anatomy of a Workshop The Training Model That Works A Classic Example Tools to Use 9. A Guide to Sustained Professional Learning Professional Learning Communities Tools to Use Bibliography Index

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From Staff Room to Classroom: A Guide for Planning and Coaching Professional Development by Robin J. Fogarty

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Robin J. Fogarty

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SAGE Publications Inc

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2006-12-19

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176

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