Synopses & Reviews
Designed for staff developers, principals, assistant principals, and professional learning community leaders, From Staff Room to Classroom II presents a wide range of highly interactive and engaging strategies for motivating adult learners and achieving high participation levels in professional development sessions.
Drawing on their background of training personnel in schools, districts, state agencies, and ministries of education around the world, Brian M. Pete and Robin J. Fogarty provide a collection of presentation strategies and activities grouped into what the authors call Presentation Morph Grids because of their potential to morph training events into creative and winning presentations. The grid framework allows for selection of interchangeable strategies to meet the needs of the group and offers readers methods for facilitating professional development sessions, conducting staff meetings, working with small or large groups, and leading professional learning communities.
Synopsis
Based on their vast experience with professional development, the authors present innovative morphological grids containing 144 strategies for designing workshops, professional learning communities, and staff meetings.