A Look at Transfer: Seven Strategies That Work

by Robin J. Fogarty, Brian Mitchell Pete

Overview

Help adult learners transfer professional development content into their classrooms.

Using teacher-tested techniques, the authors present research-based strategies for professional developers that foster content transfer from the staff training setting directly into the classroom. Listing the types of content transfer teachers commonly use, the text calls on staff trainers to:

• Understand how transfer works and set expectations for transfer of learning 
• Model authentic examples of what successful transfer looks like in the classroom
• Invite participants to consider their usual styles of transfer and to try new ones
• Brainstorm ideas with adult learners for applying new content in their lessons

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780971733268
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	01/01/2004
Series:	In A Nutshell Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Robin Fogarty is President of RFA: A Robin Fogarty Company, a Chicago-based, minority-owned, educational publishing/consulting company. Robin received her doctorate in curriculum and human resource development from Loyola University of Chicago. A leading proponent of the thoughtful classroom, Robin has trained educators throughout the world in curriculum, instruction and assessment strategies.

She has taught at all levels, from kindergarten to college, served as an administrator, and consulted with state departments and ministries of education in the United States, Puerto Rico, Russia, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Great Britain, Singapore, South Korea, the Netherlands, the Kingdom of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

Robin has published articles in Educational Leadership, Phi Delta Kappan, The Journal of Staff Development and The Middle School Lournal. She is the author of numerous publications, including Brain-Compatible Classrooms, Literacy Matters, Ten Things New Teachers Need, How to Integrate the Curricula, The Adult Learner, A Look at Transfer, Close the Achievement Gap, Twelve Brain Principles, Nine Best Practices, and From Staff Room to Classroom: Planning and Coaching Professional Learning, How to Teach Thinking Skills Within the Common Core: 7 Key Student Proficiencies of the New National Standards, Invite! Excite! Ignite! 13 Principles for Teaching, Learning and Leading K-12 classrooms

Robin received her Bachelor of Arts in Early Childhood Education at SUNY, Potsdam, NY, and her Masters in Instructional Strategies from National Louis University in Evanston, IL. She is known as the teachers’ teacher and has mentored numerous colleagues in the art and science of working with the adult learner. She brings a wealth of knowledge and passion to all endeavors, has a wealth of knowledge in the field and conducts highly interactive PD sessions.

Brian M. Pete, co-founder of Robin Fogarty & Associates, comes from a family of educators-college professors, school superintendents, teachers and teachers of teachers. He has a rich background in professional development. Brian has worked with the adult learner in districts and educational agencies throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand and the GCC in the Middle East. He has an eye for the “teachable moment” and the words to describe what he sees as skillful teaching. He delivers dynamic, humor-filled sessions that energize the audiences with engaging strategies that transfer into immediate and practical on site applications. Comments from school leaders often say that it is the best PD the staff has ever had.
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Brian is co-author of: How to Teach Students to Think Within the Common Core, School Leaders Guide to Common Core Achieving Results,Supporting Differentiated Instruction: A PLC Approach, From Staff Room to Classroom: A Guide to Planning and Coaching Professional Learning, From Staff Room to Classroom II: The One-Minute PD Planner and The Right to Be Literate: 6 Literacy Strategies for the 21^st Century. His works in progress include two pieces, one on inquiry learning with a focus on Problem-based Learning and the other on how to explicitly teach thinking skills in IB International Schools.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Transfer in Theory: Six Levels
Simple Transfer
Overlooks: Ollie, the Head-in-the-Sand Ostrich
Duplicates: Dan, the Drilling Woodpecker
Replicates: Laura, the Look-Alike Penguin
Complex Transfer
Integrates: Jonathan Livingston, the Seagull
Propagates: Cathy, the Carrier Pigeon
Innovates: Samantha, the Soaring Eagle
2. Transfer in Action: Seven Strategies
Rationale
Strategies
Understanding Transfer
Setting Expectations
Modeling with Authentic Artifacts
Reflecting on the Level of Transfer
Plotting on Application
Trying Something Immediately
Dialoguing with Lead-ins
3. Transfer in Reflection: Five Scenarios
Overlooked Transfer
The French Teacher
Simple Transfer
The Trigonometry Teacher
The Music Teachers
Complex Transfer
The Biology Teacher
The Family Living Teacher
Appendix: Student Transfer: A Look at
Bibliography