Summary
The Leading Educators in Authentic Development (LEAD) workshop is a series of professional learning sessions that develop teachers’ skills in leading professional development at their school sites. This workshop features four sessions over a two-day period. This fourth session, Leading Educators in Authentic Development: Presenting Professional Development, focuses on exploring professional development and reviewing tips for presenting to peers. Participants will review a PD they select for their school, discuss common ways to combat nervousness, and reflect on the PD cycle and how it aligns with the LEAD program.
Essential Question
How can teacher-leaders influence school culture to foster an environment conducive to authentic and meaningful learning?
Learning Goals
Identify your school’s needs and how to meet them with professional development.
Practice the presentation skills of effective professional development.
Assess your learning and potential impact at your school.
Snapshot
Engage
Participants explore LEARN professional development resources, review their selected PD, and discuss how it aligns with Authenticity and 5E.
Explore
Participants use the Fold the Line strategy to sort themselves by level of nervousness, then use the Yes, Because… strategy to discuss ways to build confidence.
Explain
Participants practice presentation skills using 30 Second Spotlight, then reflect on their presentation with Two Stars and a Wish.
Extend
Participants review a PD Checklist and Cycle handout and discuss how they can support continued learning at their schools.
Evaluate
Participants reflect on the strategies used during the session and how they could use those strategies.
Materials List
Session Slides (attached)
Device with internet access (at least one, preferably connected to a video and audio display)
From the first session
Agenda (attached; one per table)
Instructional Strategy Note Catcher sheet (attached; one per participant)
Quiz, Quiz, Trade cards (attached; one card per participant)
Alternative Quiz, Quiz, Trade cards (optional; attached; one card per participant)
3-2-1 Site Reflection handout (attached; one per participant)
Professional Development Options (attached and linked; one per participant)
Combatting Nervousness (attached; one per pair of participants)
PD Checklist and Cycle (attached; one per participant)
Sticky notes
Pens/pencils
Prework
5 Minute(s)
In this session, participants practice what they learn about by presenting a slide on something they are passionate about. If you are completing all four sessions in this series, creating the slide about their passion can be assigned as homework to be completed at the end of day two, after the second session. Alternatively, ask participants to create a slide as part of the Explain in this session.
Engage
40 Minute(s)
Display slide 2 and instruct participants to pick up a nearby card to play Quiz, Quiz, Trade. Pass out one pre-printed card to each person. The card has two sides, a prompt side and a response side. Participants must hold the card so that the prompt side is facing out and the response side is facing them. In the first round, participants partner with anyone that doesn’t have the same card. In subsequent rounds, participants raise their hand if they are available, and partner up with someone else who is raising their hand. For each round, partners introduce themselves, quiz each other, and switch cards. After both partners have responded to their prompt, repeat the quiz, quiz, trade process. Provide 10–15 minutes for this activity; adjust for the number of participants and available time.
Alternatively, create your own Quiz, Quiz, Trade cards about your local area or any other topic. The purpose of this activity is to provide another opportunity to experience an instructional strategy while building a sense of community. If you prefer, choose another icebreaker activity, such as Human Bingo or Snap, Clap, Pop.
Show slides 3–4 to review the essential question and learning goals for this session. Move to slide 5 to explain the 3-2-1 strategy to participants. Pass out copies of the 3-2-1 Site Reflection handout, then ask everyone to list three things that their school or site is doing well and two areas of need that could help their school grow. Pause here and pass out copies of the Professional Development Options handout or share the Professional Development Options digital copy. After everyone can access the handout, move to slide 6 to continue the 3-2-1 activity. Ask everyone to find one professional development that could support the needs just identified.
Display slide 7 and ask participants to review the PD they selected from the Professional Development Options. As they review the PD, participants consider the following questions:
How does the PD’s 5E narrative support authentic teaching and learning?
What makes this PD a good choice for your staff?
What E would be the most engaging and why?
What E would be the most challenging and why?
Leave slide 7 up for reference and allow participants time to review their professional development.
After enough time has passed, call the group back together and explain to participants that they are now going to be sorted according to the cluster that most closely aligns with their own PD topic. Transition to slide 8 and direct participants to move to one of the following groups:
Academic Preparedness
Technology Integration
Student Engagement
College- and Career-Going Culture
School Culture and Climate
Transition to slide 9 and ask participants to share with their group a brief description of the PD that they chose and their answers to the four questions. After participants have had time to discuss their chosen PD, display slide 10 and provide a short break.
Explore
30 Minute(s)
Display slide 11 and ask participants, “How nervous are you about presenting a PD?” Tell them to consider the three reference points on the slide and decide on a number that represents their level of nervousness. Instruct participants to raise their hand in a Fist to Five and then line up in order from 1 to 5. Point out which side of the room the Ones go to, and which side of the room the Fives go to so they form a single line. Once participants are lined up, it’s time to Fold the Line. The last person (Five at the endow the line) will walk toward the first person (One at the start of the line) and stand in front of them. The others at the end of the line essentially follow the leader until the line is folded in half and everyone is standing with a partner from the other half of the line.
Let participants know this section focuses on combating nervousness. Display slide 12 and model the Yes, Because… strategy by telling a joke. Ask participants, “Is six afraid of seven?” If facilitating with a partner, have your partner deliver the punchline: “Yes, because seven ate nine!” Pause for laughter.
Tell participants they are going to use the Yes, Because… strategy to explore how to combat nervousness. With participants still lined up in pairs from folding the line, pass out the Combating Nervousness handout; one per pair. Have the first pair of participants model the strategy using the handout. Start with the person who ranked themself most nervous about presenting. This person reads the first statement on the list and their partner (the person who rated themself confident) replies by providing a “yes, because…” response with a reason to support the statement. The second person on the same row as the first reads the second statement on the list and their partner responds with a “yes, because…” reason. Continue down the same row. After all participants in that row have read a statement, finish by switching which row reads and which row responds.
When everyone has had a chance to make a statement and receive a response, display slide 13. Tell everyone they can return to their seats. Play the 4 essential body language tips from a world champion public speaker video. Ask for a few volunteers to discuss which tips they plan to follow when they present.
Explain
15 Minute(s)
Move to slide 14 and let participants know they now have a chance to practice the tips they just learned. Everyone will use the 30 Second Spotlight strategy to present a slide they prepared as prework that showcases interests, hobbies, or aspects of their lives about which they are passionate. For those choosing to follow the multi-day format, participants would have created a slide as homework at the end of day two.
Divide the whole-group based on time and the available space available at your site. Ideally, there will be at least a few people in each group and each group will have their own room. For each group, determine a random order for presentations by pulling names from a hat or using an online randomizer. Use K20’s online timer (click on the numbers and type in 30 seconds) or any other timer in a way the person presenting can see it.
After each participant has presented, transition to slide 15 and introduce the Two Stars and a Wish strategy. Each person reflects on their own presentation. If time permits, ask a few people to share their self-reflections.
Extend
30 Minute(s)
Move to slide 16. Pass out the PD Checklist and Cycle handout. Instruct participants to read through the handout. Ask everyone to think about why each item is important and how they can function as a support at their school.
Remind participants they are teacher leaders at their school. This means they are a support structure to help meet school objectives and continue the cycle each year. Transition to slide 17. Facilitate a discussion by asking the following questions:
Why is it important to reflect on what you have accomplished and how you have supported continual learning at your site?
Why is it important to think about the school objectives and how to move forward to the next school year?
Why is it important to follow up with teachers to foster continual learning?
How will you ensure teachers can observe and share with each other new strategies or technology they are using with students?
After the PD cycle discussion, introduce the Mirror, Microscope, Binoculars strategy. Move to slide 18 and ask participants to reflect on their learning for this session or all four sessions. Give participants a few minutes to answer the questions. Ask a few participants to share their responses.
Evaluate
20 Minute(s)
Move to slide 19 and go through the strategies used in this section as a group. Remind participants to use their Instructional Strategy Note Catcher to write down how they might apply each strategy in their classroom. Quickly discuss each strategy individually. Share out something you heard from another participant that you thought was a great idea. Using their Instructional Strategy Note Catchers, participants should record information about Quiz, Quiz, Trade, 3-2-1, Fist to Five, Fold the Line, Yes, Because…, 30 Second Spotlight, Two Stars and a Wish, and Mirror, Microscope, Binoculars.
Follow-Up Activities
For a deeper dive into the professional development cycle, be sure to use the Professional Development Cycle for Teacher Leaders resource.
Research Rationale
GEAR UP programs will use a professional development approach to help teachers translate research findings into pedagogy, allowing them to focus on student-centered learning by engaging students in authentic, complex tasks guided through inquiry and discourse (Jeter et al., 2018; Stroukoff et al., 2018). Student-centered learning emphasizes learning strategies and instructional sequencing, providing deeper conceptual understanding (Tornwall, 2017) and increasing the likelihood of transfer to real-world situations (White et al., 2017).
(Full works cited list can be found at Authenticity: Works Cited.)
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