Professionals in leadership and administrative roles will
benefit from our professional development opportunities in program leadership, reflective supervision and best practice contributing to professional resilience, quality programs and improved outcomes.
The association as a whole benefits from the participation of its individual schools, and we expect each participant to gain
value from the professional development and networking opportunities at the conference.
Collection and scoring of «artifacts» of principal practice that demonstrate proficiency on particular standards of principal practice (e.g., agenda and session
materials from professional development sessions run by principals, school improvement plans, etc.);
Two categories of data were examined for this study: (1) artifacts and documents generated throughout the project's 4 - year history (e.g., materials
from professional development meetings, teacher questionnaires, district curriculum documents, teacher and student writings, conference papers, and scholarly publications); and (2) individual and focus group interviews conducted with MELAF participants from the four districts at the project's completion.
This article describes
experiences from a professional development project designed to prepare in - service eighth - grade mathematics teachers to develop, explore, and advance technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPCK) in the teaching and learning of Algebra I.
To get a glimpse into what the next 12 months will hold for
everything from professional development to digital learning, and from communication to virtual reality, 15 ed tech luminaries looked back on 2016 edtech trends to help predict what's in store for 2017.
The integrated platform provides «one - stop shopping» for courses, course ratings, surveys, transcript information, all of which impacts every facet of an educator's growth cycle,
from professional development plans to evaluations to observer calibration.
Alvarez oversees several seminar series ranging
from Professional Development Skills, which teaches students how to prepare their credentials, network, and market themselves, to Industry Insights, which brings in senior executives who can discuss how changing regulatory policies or venture capital investment impact industry.
Plans range
from professional development workshops to increase educator's skills and knowledge; to facilitation of meetings in order to build a sustainable culture; to job - embedded coaching to ensure implementation of new learning with fidelity.
Clinton says the big thing,
from a professional development point of view, is that the approach is based in the classroom, teachers are doing it in context, and they're working with cold, hard evidence.
AUIS began in 2007, and currently offers six academic programs that lead to a bachelor's degree, as well as an executive master's of business administration (MBA), and continuing education
classes from its Professional Development Institute.
«Single - site charter leaders, especially those of color, often are
isolated from these professional development opportunities, in need of help typically provided by consulting practices, and unable to access funding sources that can provide opportunities» to tap into either of those resources.
«There simply is not as much [money] to be
made from professional development, or system design, as there is in testing students,» Charlotte Danielson, a researcher who developed a well - regarded teacher observation method that has been adopted by districts around the country, said in an email.
Separate Meetings on School
Logistics from Professional Development Time When it comes down to the week - to - week, there needs to be a separation between professional development and staff meetings about school logistics.
And while the survey didn't ask about how politics were affecting teachers» perceptions of the standards, the survey did find that the teachers who had positive feelings about Common Core were more likely to have received information about the
standards from professional development sessions than their peers and less likely to have received information through either the media or social networking.
In light of this conversation, we wanted to share some basic negotiating
tips from our Professional Development Program curriculum, adapted from Roger Fisher's book Getting to Yes: You must be -LSB-...]
Develop your networks and contacts with our year - round
events from professional development seminars held in many cities to our annual National Mortgage Conference, the largest mortgage conference in Canada.
«These are schools that by any measure are failing, and the fact is, even today, many such schools are already partnering with these kinds of organizations,» he said, referring to private organizations involved with districts on
everything from professional development to preschool to special education.
In a previous blog post, I briefly touched upon one way in which administrators can tackle this issue: by creating a user - friendly digital hub that contains all worthwhile
materials from all professional development sessions (think, one - stop shop).
I believe it appropriate to fortify my knowledge base by
learning from professional development, research - based literature, and day - to - day practice, thus building on my educational foundation from Mount St. Mary's and UCLA.
If you determine that your district or school can
benefit from professional development, TERC's Using Data Project provides professional training and consultation to develop effective data plans, data leaders, data coaches, and data teams — with the goal of improving teaching and learning in all classrooms.