Differentiation: Adjusting Your Style to Meet the Needs of Those You Teach and Coach! Learn More About Using Personality Type in Schools Corwin Press --Learning styles --Differentiation --Helping teachers collaborate --Improving classroom management --Culturally responsive teaching. The framework of personality type isn't a panacea but a robust tool for examining how who we are influences how we teach--and how to reach those who learn differently. Collaborative teams, professional learning communities, distributed leadership, effective principalship--dozens of publications tell you that this is what schools need. Differentiated School Leadership shows you how, by using the theory of personality type as a schoolwide language for communication, collaboration and change. Filled with examples, staff development activities, and other resources that allow leaders to plan for embedded staff development, this is a hands-on handbook for developing effective leadership throughout a school--or throughout a district. Why Attend Our Workshops?Decades of research on personality type shows that resistance is often the result of management not meeting the informational needs of people during change. Differentiated Coaching recognises the differences in what each educator needs before changing classroom practices. Our books and workshops give principals, district personnel and instructional coaches the tools they need to differentiate adult learning, modeling for teachers what their students also need. Differentiated coaching provides strategies for --understanding teacher beliefs that can block change --using the research-based framework of personality type, popularized through the MBTI, to understand differences in how people take in information and make decisions--two key processes in education --"translating" information and communicating to meet teacher needs --changing coaching roles, depending on the learning style of the teacher --relating new strategies to the teacher's interests and concerns. Hargreaves, Fullen, Dewey and others all conclude that changing a teacher's classroom practices often involves changing who that teacher is. Differentiated coaching makes that possible while motivating the teacher to take active responsibility for professional growth. MBTI, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Myers-Briggs, the MBTI logo and Introduction to Type are registered trademarks of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Trust. |
WorkshopsDifferentiation Through Personality Types West St. Paul, August 13-14, 2008 MN Dept. of Education October 7-8, 2008 Differentiated School Leadership Hamline University Oct. 4 & Nov. 1, 2008 "...a 5 star event. Design, knowledge, presentation. Jane had her entire audience with her every moment, from listening to carefully spaced, physically active exercises." --Seminar Attendee Visit our "Events" page for details Differentiated Coaching October 2008 Instructional Coaching Conference Lawrence, KS Greensburg, PA Collaborative Instructional Leadesrhip NSDC Conference Washington, DC Dec. 8, 2008 2008 Instructional Coaching Conference |
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