1. April 29, 2013
• Sign in & get a name tag
• Sit in your 2nd coaching
groups
WELCOME TO
LCRT 6915:
SEMINAR & PRACTICUM IN
LITERACY PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT

2. Coaching Session #2 Groups
•Joe, Krista, Laura
•Whitney, Kara, Mona
•Alicia, Becky, Aimee
•Kelley, Elizabeth, Katie, Kim

3. Tonight’s Agenda
Vogt & Shearer ch.11 – “Planning & Implementing
Multidimensional Professional Development”
 Professional Development: Models, topics, and
relevant considerations
 Share an article from the journal you selected that you
would use for professional development in your
current context.
 WORKSHOP: Final Coaching Reflection
 Course evaluation & feedback; FCQs

4. CHAPTER 11
“PLANNING & IMPLEMENTING
MULTIDIMENSIONAL
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT”

5. Planning & Implementing
Multidimensional Professional
Development
Review the 2 vignettes on pp. 216-218
•Which PD session would you prefer to attend?
Why?
•What are 3-5 advantages in place in the 2nd
vignette that support a successful exchange?

6. Review the information about
Teacher Development
on pages 221-226
• At your table groups, brainstorm ways you
can begin to implement the structures that
lead to constructive professional
development.
• What help or supports would you need to
implement these structures in the
school/district where you work?
• Create a list of ideas that you can share
with your 6915 classmates.

7. What other aspects of the chapter resonated
with you? Discuss at your table & share out
PAGE 218: Models of
professional development:
Multidimensional pd?
Transmission model?
Constructivist model?
PAGE 221: Creating a
professional development
plan (See sample plan pp. 227-
230): Understanding teacher
development? Evidence-based
PD? Multilayered PD?
Sustained PD?
PAGE 227: Components of PD plan:
Goals, materials & approaches, study
groups, resources, presentations or
workshops; coaching teachers?
Page 221-222: Topics & Models used?
What is the selection process for PD
topics? What are the features of PD
models?...in the district where you
work?
PAGE 233: Structuring a PD workshop:
How to prepare it? Goals? Opening?
Agenda? Use of humor? Content?
Learning activities? Workshop
conclusion?

8. PROFESSIONAL
JOURNAL ARTICLES
YOU SELECTED

9. Share the article you brought to be used to
support PD in your current context
Discuss the following at your tables:
• Why did you select this article?
• What does the topic and emphasis of this
article reveal about the needs within the
context where you work?

10. Share the article you brought to be used to support
PD in your current context
• What does it reveal about
possible goals shared by
your team mates? What
does it reveal about your
individual goals?
• If you were to use this
article to launch a
professional study group,
what discussion questions
would you develop to
support the group
interactions about this
article?
•How might the topic
of this article fit
within a broader topic
of need or interest for
the teachers where
you work?

11. BREAK

12. Workshop: Final Coaching Reflection
Share your draft of the Final Coaching Reflection
with at least one of your table mates;
Review the Grading Criteria for the reflection
assignment & look for ways to help each other
improve the draft with respect to:
 depth of thought & the clarity of addressing
the prompts;
 cohesion of your message; and,
 quality of writing.

13. Before we pause for your
feedback…… looking ahead
Be sure to upload your philosophy
statement to livetext by May 6.
Go to livetext, look for LCRT 6915;
The philosophy statement is the PBA for
LCRT 6915.
Semester course grade will not be assigned
until this PBA is uploaded onto Livetext.

14. Course & Instructor
Evaluation
Please complete the following:
•LCRT 6915 instructor-developed evaluation
•CU System Faculty Course Questionnaire (with
#2 pencil)
THANK YOU!!! Your feedback will be used by
the Professor AND the LLCRT program to
improve the curriculum & instruction of 6915.

15. YOUR QUESTIONS?

16. YOUR NAME: ___________________________
Share the journal article you brought to be used to support PD in
your current context
JOURNAL ARTICLE
• Journal reference (authors, year, title, source/volume/pages).
• If you were to use this article to launch a professional study
group, what 3-4 discussion questions would you develop to
support the group interactions about this article?