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Creating a Coaching Culture for Professional Learning Communities Researchers agree that launching professional learning community (PLC) teams may be easy, but turning them into productive, sustainable teams that improve adult and student learning is difficult. Creating a Coaching Culture for Professional Learning Communities, is designed to help readers build a collaborative coaching culture that ensures all adults learn in a way that keeps the focus on student learning. Each chapter tailors information and exercises to fit the reader's leadership style, the learning styles of team members, and the particular needs of the school to ensure that hard work produces results: improved student learning. Authors Jane A. G. Kise and Beth Russell approach collaborative teams through the lens of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, which pinpoints how individuals gain energy, take in information, make decisions, and approach work and life. By understanding personality preferences, teams communicate more clearly, avoid "group think," balance decision making and problem solving, work toward positive conflict resolution, balance short-term and long-term strategic planning, and achieve both adult and student learning needs. A constructive use of differences goes beyond tolerance. Instead, it focuses on the benefits that diverse perspectives provide. This understanding propels PLC teams toward effectiveness. This book:
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: Why Use These Pages? Chapter 1: Understanding Why PLCs Need a Coaching Culture Chapter 2: Describing a Framework for Coaching, Teaching, and Learning Chapter 3: Coaching Yourself as a Leader Chapter 4: Differentiating the PLC Structure Chapter 5: Coaching for Genuine Community Chapter 6: Coaching a Group Into a Collaborative Team Chapter 7: Coaching for Optimal Student Engagement and Achievement Appendix A: Descriptions of the Sixteen Types Appendix B: Problem-Solving Model Appendix C: Reading on Student Motivation Appendix D: Academic Rigor Reading Appendix E: Student Work Examples Appendix F: Academic Rigor Task Cards Glossary of Key Concepts and Terms References and Resources Index REPRODUCIBLES Chapter Handouts Handout 1.1: Key Components of Effective PLCs Handout 1.2: Markers of a Coaching Culture Handout 2.1: Extraversion or Introversion—How Are You Energized? Handout 2.2: Sensing or Intuition—Gathering Information Handout 2.3: Which Test Question? Handout 2.4: Thinking and Feeling—Decisions Handout 2.5: Giving Zeros Handout 2.6: Judging and Perceiving—How Do You Approach Life? Handout 3.1: A Checklist for Loose/Tight PLC Leadership Handout 3.2: Sample PLC Assignment—Student-Focused Discussions Task Handout 3.3: Leading Effective Professional Learning Communities Handout 4.1: Type Preferences and Learning Needs Handout 4.2: The Pragmatic PLC Handout 4.3: The Supportive PLC Handout 4.4: The Collegial PLC Handout 4.5: The Intellectual PLC Handout 4.6: PLC Activities Handout 5.1: Collaboration Survey Handout 5.2: Learning Styles Summary Handout 5.3: Differentiating PLC Meetings for Learning Styles Handout 5.4: Tips for Working With Opposites Handout 6.1: Peer Classroom Observation Sheet Handout 6.2: Learning Progression for Fractions Handout 6.3: Noncoaching Culture or Coaching Culture? Handout 7.1: Learning Styles, Favorite Activities, and Motivating Words Handout 7.2: A Sample Running Record of Classroom Observation Handout 7.3: Formative Assessment and Learning Styles Handout B.1: Problem-Solving Model Handout B.2: Order in Which the Four Functions Develop Descriptions of the Sixteen Types of Personality Styles ISTJ ISTP ESTP ESTJ ISFJ ISFP ESFP ESFJ INFJ INFP ENFP ENFJ INTJ INTP ENTP ENTJ Student Learning Anticipation Guide: What Do You Know About Student Motivation? Anticipation Guide Instructions How Do Students Get Smart? What Is Rigor? Academic Rigor Task Cards 1 Academic Rigor Task Cards 2 Student Work Samples SUGGESTED RESOURCES The Association for Psychological Type International: www.aptinternational.org The Efficacy Institute: www.efficacy.org The National Staff Development Council: www.nsdc.org The Council of Chief State School Officers: www.ccsso.org Myers-Briggs Type Indicator: www.mbticomplete.org Survey websites: www.zoomerang.com and www.surveymonkey.com |
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