Developing Teaching Expertise: A Guide to Adaptive Professional Learning Design

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

Cultivate a Culture of Learning by Doing In Teacher Development

Picture a world where teachers, equipped with the expertise to produce the best outcomes in every context, confidently and intentionally inquire, adapt, and change instruction based on student needs. Do you know how to get them there?

Developing Teaching Expertise offers a proactive framework for teachers to work through iterative design cycles and understand how to make ‘what works best’ work in their unique classroom. Aligned to the varied components of teacher professional learning, this book supports the development of teaching expertise by:
 

• Exploring how specific design and leadership approaches can be integrated to form a useful framework for leading teacher professional learning
• Highlighting ways to navigate through complex educational environments
• Incorporating illustrative tools and vignettes, and real-life examples of results from different educational settings

This book offers a deep exploration to lead and intentionally cultivate a culture of lifelong teacher learning.