A Look at Transfer: Seven Strategies That Work (In A Nutshell Series)

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

A Look at Transfer examines the six levels of transfer and the adult learner. The book explores the seven bridging strategies to use with adult learners as they learn how the professional development content they are learning does, indeed, transfer into their classrooms and into their life situations.

Robin Fogarty, Ph.D., is president of Robin Fogarty and Associates, Ltd., a Chicago-based, minority-owned, educational publishing/consulting company. Her doctorate is 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, Korea and the Netherlands. Robin has published articles in Educational Leadership, Phi Delta Kappan and the Journal of Staff Development.  She is the author of numerous publications, including Brain-Compatible Classrooms, Ten Things New Teachers Need, Literacy Matters,  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: A Guide to Designing and CoachingProfessional Development.