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	<title>Teaching The Outsiders (and more) &#187; Professional Development</title>
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		<title>Staff Development for the Passive Aggressive</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Warning: Lots of scare quotes ahead.) I hate being out of my classroom for &#8220;in-services,&#8221; &#8220;trainings,&#8221; &#8220;workshops,&#8221; or &#8220;classes,&#8221; especially the district mandated/sponsored ones. You know the kind, where they read powerpoint slides to you, you do &#8220;jigsaw&#8221; activities (gawd, I hate those), share with your 3 o&#8217;clock partner, and get a bunch of handouts that end up doodled all over and chucked onto the giant pile next to your desk to be forgotten for two months, when you&#8217;re supposed to have done something with those papers for a &#8220;follow-up session.&#8221;  And not a lick of it makes it into the classroom or helps your teaching. This is not to say that I haven&#8217;t been to a few effective workshops. But usually these end up being useful not for the &#8220;activities&#8221; we did, but for the ideas and examples of the presenter. Kate Kinsella comes to mind. If she&#8217;s giving the workshop on teaching writing, go to it. I&#8217;ve stolen all sorts of stuff from her. However, my experience with the standard, district-issued workshops is that the cost/benefit analysis usually doesn&#8217;t come out in favor of  attending. The ones they&#8217;ve been pushing lately, about EL techniques and such, have seemed especially forced; [...]]]></description>
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