This document discusses developing teacher agency through professional pathways. It outlines key influencers in professional learning such as Timperley, Wiliam, Guskey and Hunzicker. It discusses elements of effective professional development including being job-embedded, supportive, instructionally-focused, collaborative and ongoing. The document also presents tools for teacher inquiry, new teacher induction, curriculum renewal and alternative forms of professional learning. It emphasizes creating a culture of continuous improvement and knowing the impact of professional development through various levels including reactions, learning, behavior and student outcomes.

2. Developing Teacher Agency
through Professional Pathways
“Inquiry is not a ‘project’, an ‘initiative’ or an ‘innovation’ but a professional way of being.” Timperley
(2014)
Angela Meikle @ang_meikle
Cindy Barnsley @cbarnsley

3. Introductions

4. Resources to access
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5. Our context

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8. Key influencers

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10. Co-constructing a culture of continuous
improvement
“When all teachers embrace the idea that they can
improve, not because they are not good enough, but
because they can be even better, this creates a natural
collegiality that supports all teachers in embracing the
need for continuous improvement.”
Dylan Wiliam (2016, p.239)

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13. What is effective professional
learning?

14. 5 key elements of effective professional development;
job-embedded,
supportive,
instructionally-focused,
collaborative
and ongoing.
Dr. Jana Hunzicker, Bradley University

15. Peter Cole, M.A. AITSL
The Funnel of Professional Learning
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16. Dr. Thomas Guskey, University of Kentucky
Hanover Report, 2015
Staff development Changes in
teachers’
classroom practice
Changes in
student learning
outcomes
Changes in
teachers’ attitudes
and beliefs

17. Professor Helen Timperley, University of Auckland
1. Focus on valued student
outcomes
5. Multiple opportunities to learn and
apply information
2. Worthwhile content 6. Opportunities to process new
learning with others
3. Integration of knowledge and skills 7. Active leadership
4. Assessment for professional inquiry 8. Maintaining momentum

18. Professor Dylan Wiliam, University College
London
“No matter how good a teacher is, if he or she
improves, his or her students will be healthier, live
longer, and contribute more to society.
Reconnecting teachers with this moral imperative can
reduce resistance, especially when combined with the
ideas of choice, flexibility and small steps.”
(Wiliam, 2016, p.202)

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20. Parallel
pathways
for all staff
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21. Teacher Inquiry & Action

22. Tools for inquiry

23. New Teacher Induction

24. Curriculum Renewal

25. Alternative & additional forms of professional
learning

28. Voices from our
faculty
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30. Wrap up: reflections
“Know thy
impact”
- Hattie, 2012
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31. How will we know? Guskey’s 5 levels of impact
1. Reaction quality – Evaluates how staff feel about the quality of their professional learning
2. Learning evaluation – measures knowledge, skills and attitudes acquired through
training
3. Organisational evaluation – assesses the support and ethos of the
organisation
4. Behaviour evaluation – focuses on changes in behaviours as a result of training received
5. Results evaluation – assesses the impact of professional development on student outcomes
Guskey, T (2000) Evaluating Professional Development

32. What structures, protocols, enablers, or other factors,
have been effective in your context to create a culture of
continuous improvement?
As an educator, how might you move forward in
continuing to develop this culture?
Wrap up: reflections

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34. go slowly,
go together

35. thankyou

36. Sources
Cole. P. (2012). Linking effective professional learning with effective teaching practice.
Guskey, T (2000) Evaluating Professional Development,
Guskey, Thomas R., "Does It Make a Difference? Evaluating Professional Development" (2002). Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology Faculty Publications. 7.
Hanover Report (2015), Best practices in evaluating teacher professional development
Hattie, John. (2012). Know Thy Impact. Educational Leadership. 70. 18-23.
Hunzicker, J. (2010) Characteristics of Effective Professional Development: A Checklist
Timperley, H., Kaser L., and Halbert, J. (2014) A framework for transforming learning in schools: Innovation and the spiral of inquiry, Centre for Strategic Education
Wiliam, D., Sustaining Formative Assessment with Teacher Learning Communities, 2014
Wiliam, D., 2016. Leadership for Teacher Learning: Creating a Culture Where All Teachers Improve so That All Students Succeed, Learning Sciences International
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