Desired Outcomes:

● Understanding how to collaboratively make

meaning with a team
● How to individualize learning
● How to bridge theory and practice

Guiding Questions:
1. What are key ingredients for a successful professional development class/program?

2. How can teachers direct, reflect, and facilitate their own learning?

Vocabulary:
Gradual release model, reflective inquiry

outcomes/questions 2 minutes
Discussion 2.5min ch 3 2.5 min ch 4
Think-(Pair)- Share! Ch 3
● Learn more about teachers/students who they are and their experiences
● Kids love to share, especially after weekends!
● More you know, better you can make learning more relevant, more buy in
● Students get to know more about each other and teacher- sense of
community
● enhance at a later time, time to think about it, too much all at once- brain
can be overwhelmed.
● Learning to go back and identify (posters with words that are synonyms in
classroom could be a good idea!)

6 minutes
Questions to get you thinking:
1. What do you think the benefit was of asking the teachers/students to write
stories about their lives?
2. Why did Jennifer Allen have teachers/students revisit their previous stories?
What was the goal?
Think-(Pair)- Share! Ch 4
● She asked for input about what sorts of topics the teachers wanted to
learn about
● Peer group- person leading group does not teach, everyone is expert,
8-10 participants per group
● Staying on topic for a few years, teachers have more time to grasps
concepts and put theory into practice

6 minutes
Questions to get you thinking:
1. In what ways did Jennifer Allen individualize learning for her voluntary PD
groups?
2. What were the main main takeaways from the peer study groups? What was
the purpose? Who was in charge?

Debrief 5min:
5 minutes
Biggest Takeaways:
1. Making meaning together
2. Individualized learning
3. Bridge theory and practice