Finally, I believe our teachers will need
a new kind of professional development to support all the challenges that lie ahead.
You're holding
a new kind of professional development tool called a Strategic Teacher PLC Guide.
«Swanson outlines
a new kind of professional development that is sure to revolutionize how educators improve their craft.
Robert Dillon, Director of Technology and Innovation Affton School District «Swanson outlines
a new kind of professional development that will revolutionize how educators improve their craft.
Not exact matches
What
kind of professional development is needed to train teachers for
new goals?
And there is a side benefit: Teachers can share these videos with colleagues, opening the door to a
new kind of collaboration and a different model
of professional development.
We offer a diverse portfolio
of online courses, on - campus institutes, and blended programs that prepare educators to cultivate critical thinking and learning skills, practice
new teaching approaches, and confront centuries - old structures in order to better design and deliver the
kind of education and
professional development required for today's educators and tomorrow's citizens.
The
New Teacher Project (TNTP) recently looked at
professional development in large school districts and a charter school network and concluded that «We found no evidence that any particular
kind or amount
of professional development consistently helps teachers improve.»
Among other milestones in Rechner's more than 20 years
of experience in education include the launch
of the Discovery Education brand following the purchase
of United Learning by Discovery Communications almost 15 years ago; the founding
of the Discovery Educator Network, which today is the largest
professional learning network
of its
kind; and the
development of ingenious
new sales strategies that have influenced the way Discovery Education nurtures and grows partnerships nationwide.
But working with other Associations in the Pacific region, we began to organize using ESSA as a fulcrum around which we could connect our organizing training (because the task force was calling for visioning, and our approach to organizing is about identifying shared aspirations), our
professional development redesign (as ESSA was creating space for
new kinds of professional leadership in implementation), and our campaign for contract negotiations.
The legacy
of the Charter School movement in the US - KIPP in particular - echoes through the rapid emergence
of new kinds of school organisation in the UK — federations clustered around «Teaching Schools» which, partnered with a university, provide
professional development from initial teacher training to leadership and management across groups
of schools; independent yet state - funded chains
of academies and the
new «Free Schools».
«Our hope was that it might be quite natural (with no direct religious, political or
professional connections
of any
kind) and might, therefore, become a coordinating agency for other organizations that were developing programs in this
new field; that it might undertake the task
of setting standards for leadership; that it might encourage the
development of local chapters which could promote in their communities the cause
of better marriage.»