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Learning designs
By Eleanor Drago-Severson
February 2016
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Cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, and educators have studied how learning occurs for nearly a century. The resulting theories, research, and models of human learning shape the underlying framework and assumptions educators use to plan and design professional learning. While multiple designs exist, many have common features …
— Learning Forward, 2011, p. 40
Eleanor Drago-Severson’s research, writing, teaching, and coaching has helped show that supporting adult learning and professional development improves outcomes for students. Given the mounting adaptive challenges educators face in education today, teachers and school leaders must continuously learn and grow as they manage these tremendously complex issues and programs and the ambiguity inherent in them. Drago-Severson’s full essay explains how the Learning Designs standard helps educators prioritize these designs, as well as understand how to effectively support learning and improvement.
The full essay looks at the three “big ideas,” or strands, that comprise the Learning Designs standard. In this excerpt, she examines the first strand, which concerns the way learning theories, research, and models help us understand the adults we want to support.
Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students integrates theories, research, and models of human learning to achieve its intended outcomes.
About the Book
Drago-Severson, E., Roy, P., & von Frank, V. (2015). Reach the highest standard in professional learning: Learning Designs. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin. Excerpted with permission.
References
Drago-Severson, E. (2004a). Becoming adult learners: Principles and practices for effective development. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
Drago-Severson, E. (2004b). Helping teachers learn: Principal leadership for adult growth and development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.
Drago-Severson, E. (2006a, Summer). Learning-oriented leadership: Transforming a school through a program of adult learning. Independent School, 58-61, 64.
Drago-Severson, E. (2006b, March). How can you better support teachers’ growth? The Learning Principal, 1(6), 1, 6-7.
Drago-Severson, E. (2009). Leading adult learning: Supporting adult development in our schools. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin & NSDC.
Drago-Severson, E. (2012). Helping educators grow: Strategies and practices for leadership development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
Drago-Severson, E. & Blum-DeStefano, J. (in press). The art of feedback: Tell me so I can hear you. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
Drago-Severson, E., Blum-DeStefano, J., & Asghar, A. (2013). Learning for leadership: Developmental strategies for building capacity in our schools. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.
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Kegan, R., Broderick, M., Drago-Severson, E., Helsing, D., Popp, N., & Portnow, K. (2001, August). Toward a new pluralism in ABE/ESOL classrooms: Teaching to multiple “cultures of mind.” [NCSALL Reports #19a]. Cambridge, MA: National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy, Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
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