Respondents also flagged the most promising policies for
incentivizing excellent professional development as, in order, access to a highly supportive principal, the chance to watch peers model effective teaching practices, access to a mentor, and common planning time with colleagues.
Ralabate: The NEA IDEA Special Education Resource Cadre provides
an excellent professional development session based on The Puzzle of Autism.
In addition to materials, Forde - Ferrier also continually improves its instructional methods, providing
excellent professional development and training in mathematics, reading, writing, and science.
In this case, classroom observation would be
an excellent professional development approach.
Initiatives designed to strengthen teaching, whether through improved curriculum,
excellent professional development, or hiring well - prepared teacher candidates, will be tremendously important to standards implementation, but they can not possibly meet the demand to raise student achievement to Common Core levels unless they are part of more far - reaching changes in school design.