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How To Choose The Right Learning Design

By Learning Forward
Categories: Learning designs
August 2014
The recent proliferation of online learning designs — such as edWeb, PD 360, or Teaching Channel — presents a challenge: How can professional learning leaders decide which designs will be the most effective? Learning Forward’s Standards for Professional Learning are immediately helpful. The backmapping model that Joellen Killion and Patricia Roy shared in Becoming a Learning School (Killion & Roy, 2009) offers insight into how to choose an appropriate design. In addition, a recent joint project of Learning Forward and the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership provides a way to think about developing, enhancing, and evaluating professional learning designs. Finally, the third edition of Powerful Designs for Professional Learning (Easton, in press) presents 24 designs. While a few of these are updated versions

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Authors

Lois Brown Easton and Terry Morganti-Fisher

Lois Brown Easton (leastoners@aol.com) and Terry Morganti-Fisher (tmorgantifisher@gmail.com) are senior consultants for Learning Forward’s Center for Results. Learning Forward Senior Advisor Joellen Killion (joellen.killion@learningforward.org) also contributed to this article.

Backmapping Model For Planning Professional Learning

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AITLS Model For Learning

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Find The Right Balance

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Powerful Designs For Professional Learning, 3rd Edition

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References

Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL). (2014). Designing professional learning. Melbourne, Australia: AITSL. Available at www.aitsl.edu.au/professional-growth/research/designing-professional-learning.

 

Easton, L.B. (Ed.). (In press.) Powerful designs for professional learning (3rd ed.). Oxford, OH: Learning Forward.

 

Killion, J. (2008). Assessing impact: Evaluating staff development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

 

Killion, J. & Roy, P. (2009). Becoming a learning school. Oxford, OH: NSDC.

 

Learning Forward. (2011). Standards for Professional Learning. Oxford, OH: Author.

 

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Sousa, D. (2009, June). Brain-friendly learning for teachers. Educational Leadership, 66. Available at www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/summer09/vol66/num09/Brain-Friendly_Learning_for_Teachers.aspx.

 

University College Dublin Open Educational Resources. (n.d.). Education theory: Constructivism and social constructivism in the classroom. Available at www.ucdoer.ie/index.php?title=Education_theory/Constructivism_and_Social_Constructivism_in_the_Classroom&oldid=2478.

 

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