This week you will be reading about different types of PD besides workshops as well as how to plan a workshop. These will be useful as you plan your own PD program. Most of us, myself included, see PD as being a workshop with an outside expert telling us about new research or teaching methods. I do quite a bit of this kind of PD, especially in my international work. But it is really important that literacy leaders know about alternative formats, ones that may address large groups but be more informal or ones that are focused on small groups who are interested in a specific topic. The formats you will read are different types of PD aimed at supporting teacher knowledge development. They are article study, pd at faculty meetings, and lesson study. What do you know about each type? Have you ever participated in one of these formats? Strategy 7 is about planning powerful PD. I'd read this strategy last after you have read the others. What has made a PD workshop powerful for you?
After you read, think about how these strategies will help you plan your PD program.
When will you get together to give each other feedback on your drafts of program plans, and help each other incorporate the feedback that you got from the faculty and administration? How can I help you?
I believe article study article study is when a group reads the same article & has a study/discussion about it. It's more in depth than just a casual reading. PD at faculty meetings seems like it would be relatively short & intensive based on the amount of time available. I'll be honest.....I'm not really sure what lesson study is.
ReplyDeleteI've had article studies in a few of my courses, but they've been relatively short on time. Not sure if that counts. I have participated in PD during staff meetings at my current & previous jobs. What has made them powerful & memorable is when the information is relevant, presented by someone who is knowledgeable & energetic, and provides me with tools I can use immediately.
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Article Study is were you meet with a group and discuss an article that everyone has read. Pd at a faculty meeting, is just that, you meet during a faculty meeting. It usually includes everyone and is pretty broad in topic. This way it includes everyone. Lesson study, I think, is were you watch a lesson and everyone discuss it. Or it might be were you study a topic over time with a group.
ReplyDeleteI never done an article study or a lesson study. I've been so other type of PD. I have attended several PDs at faculty meetings. The most powerful PD was the one I went to had breakout sessions that I could choose were I went. The breakout sessions were hosted by fellow teachers in the district. This was fun to see "experts" in the field. I also went to another PD were there was a lot of collaboration and we could work with materials and build lessons.
An article study is a group analysis and discussion of an article that everyone has read. PD at a faculty meeting is typically a brief overview that targets the entire faculty. I am thinking a lesson study is an individual to small group look at the components of a lesson.
ReplyDeleteI have done article studies and PD at a faculty meeting. I have sat with my instructional coach and content-area buddy to analyze a lesson, but I'm still not sure that is what a lesson study is. The workshops that were powerful to me were the ones that I could take a strategy back to the classroom and implement it right away. Most of them have been small group or large groups with time to collaborate with my colleagues.
I would think an article study who be similar to a book study. As a group you will read an article on a topic and discuss the key points as a group. PD at faculty meetings cover a topic as a whole group. I don't know a lot about lesson study but I would think that it entails more of a small group. I think that the small group would collaborate on ideas.
ReplyDeleteI have not participated in an article study but I have participated in a book study. I also have done PD at a faculty meeting. I have found that the PD that have been powerful to me have been that ones that have are relevant to my subject area and ones that required hands on active learning. Also, ones that I have been able to carry over into the classroom. These PD have stuck with me the most because they allowed me to use the information in my classroom. They also gave me more knowledge on the topic because they allowed me to be actively engaged.
I believe an article study is when a group of participants read an article and then get together to discuss certain aspects or the topic of the article. Article studies are similar to book studies. Professional developments at faculty meeting is when a topic is presented to the entire faculty. Lastly, I think a lesson study is over a specific topic directed toward a specific group of individuals (in more of a small group setting).
ReplyDeleteI have not participated in an article study, but like Erin, I have participated in a book study, which I really enjoyed. I have participated in pd during our faculty meetings as well. The most powerful professional development that I have participated in are ones that are relevant to me, topics that I am interested in, and are hands on. I like being able to practice what we are discussing. I am not to familiar with a lesson study, but if I had to guess, I would say that it is when a lesson is being presented and then the group discusses the lesson.
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ReplyDeleteI have participated in PD at faculty meetings, which sometimes feel rather rushed, since our meetings are before and after school. However, I think they have their benefits, like a mini-lesson. I think an article study would probably be more independent and more individualized, but it would also probably still include a collaborative component that allows for topical discussion with colleagues. A lesson study would probably have to be done in a small group where everyone observes a lesson and discusses the strategies in it.
ReplyDeleteFor me, one of the things that makes PD workshops powerful is knowing why it works (and then trying it out to confirm why it works). I think that's one thing that helps take care of the whole cookie-cutter method issue. If you know why it works, it seems to work better, and it helps make it more flexible, since you can adapt it without taking away the aspects that make it beneficial.
Sorry, I didn't have internet access this weekend and didn't get home last night until very late/ or early morning.
ReplyDeleteThey are article study, pd at faculty meetings, and lesson study. What do you know about each type? Have you ever participated in one of these formats?
* I have participated in a book study recently over the summer we read a book called "The Uncommon Core" and our English Department got together to discuss the interesting viewpoints on how these researchers saw Common Core and were Common Core was dropping the ball/ not fully delving into strategy building/ concept assessing. At my school we also do weekly faculty meetings and we have professional development at least twice a month. They are usually lead by a teacher or an expert teacher who has gone to a more detailed professional development and will give us instruction. I think I've been part of a lesson study, which involved teacher modeling of a strategy and a discussion of why the strategy worked and how it can shape and model.
I realized that I did this week's posting backwards, sorry.
ReplyDeleteI've participated in a book study and have participated in a lot of the large group professional development, down to the professional development that is done within our faculty meetings at school. I enjoyed the most the smaller group professional developments, especially when they are run by my colleagues and people I know. I have started my coaching and I am really enjoying it, which has given me a lot of confidence to do larger group professional development. I would LOVE to do the article study professional development and think that it would benefit my department and work well with the many different years of experience. I would also love to do the lesson study, I know that as a new teacher I would have loved to watch more veteran teachers and also be able to discuss what was done well with them as well.
I realized that I did this week's posting backwards, sorry.
ReplyDeleteI've participated in a book study and have participated in a lot of the large group professional development, down to the professional development that is done within our faculty meetings at school. I enjoyed the most the smaller group professional developments, especially when they are run by my colleagues and people I know. I have started my coaching and I am really enjoying it, which has given me a lot of confidence to do larger group professional development. I would LOVE to do the article study professional development and think that it would benefit my department and work well with the many different years of experience. I would also love to do the lesson study, I know that as a new teacher I would have loved to watch more veteran teachers and also be able to discuss what was done well with them as well.