By combining the power of Diigo and Twitter, I am able to track more easily ad - hoc
professional learning opportunities as they occur, as well as have conversations about them before and after they occur.
Ultimately,
professional learning opportunities should be a natural part of an educator's professional life.
Professional learning opportunities should not be treated as if they were a test that we're all cramming for with only minutes left to study.
In order to support school leaders and teachers to become their most effective at using digital technologies with new pedagogies, it is vital that a district support the digital transformation through varied building - level and district - level
professional learning opportunities.
How to Manage Your District's Learning Opportunities School districts need to be able to provide and manage consistent
professional learning opportunities that are scalable, platform - independent (Web - based), and that allow for interface with their district's data warehouse and other systems.
With these factors in mind, we then designed Innovate Salisbury — a year - long
professional learning opportunity for 2015 - 2016 — with a cohort of 15 teachers who represent all of our schools and levels.
This Practitioner Research project is now included in Queensland Education Leadership Institute's (QELi) suite of
professional learning opportunities.
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If we get this right, every school will be able to provide
the professional learning opportunities for staff that will help them flourish and their pupils and students to succeed.
The ACER Institute offers evidence - based
professional learning opportunities building on the research strengths of ACER.
Some specific examples of how Moodle is being used to enhance
professional learning opportunities for educators are:
Facing this challenge requires providing the current workforce with high - quality
professional learning opportunities, something we talk about a great deal at the national level.
I know that their schools will benefit even further from the new ideas, resources and energy they've taken away from this great
professional learning opportunity.»
As a school leader, do you design
professional learning opportunities that allow staff to collaborate and share ideas?
One was to identify aspects of teaching that needed strengthening across the school, such as student engagement in learning, and plan appropriate
professional learning opportunities to meet that need.
While change is hard, the opportunity that these actions provide to increase teacher agency — and to transform
professional learning opportunities — is worth it.
Do educators have agency over
their professional learning opportunities in your school?
«In my experience, system - level leaders have few sustained, challenging
professional learning opportunities available to them, particularly ones that are connected to their own practice.
Interestingly, on the international scale, Australia rates well with
its professional learning opportunities.
By giving our teachers the keys to their own curriculum though extended
professional learning opportunities and defining core values of PBL instead of a particular method (see my earlier post), we have given teachers their own authentic learning challenge.
When teachers choose their own
professional learning opportunities (such as Edcamps), many feel more support in their jobs and better prepared to support their students» learning.
She also believes that teachers require robust
professional learning opportunities to apply 21st Century Learning in their classrooms to realise the full potential technology in education.
The Piner - Olivet Union School District (POUSD) has been fortunate to access a variety of
professional learning opportunities offered through our county office of education, ranging from Make and Take Workshops to a weeklong summer institute.
Further, the Staff in Australian Schools Study 2013 [vii] pointed to ongoing
professional learning opportunities as the most common form of support for newly employed graduate teachers, but the study also noted a lack of school support and induction.
Mobilising teacher leaders has resulted in enhanced collegiality and
professional learning opportunities across the school.
The Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Business School have collaborated on a new
professional learning opportunity designed for the nearly 114,000 principals — as well as 78,000 assistant principals and 210,000 teachers aspiring to move into school leadership — across the United States.
«The initiative will provide early childhood educators, from teachers to leaders, with high - quality, high - impact
professional learning opportunities drawing on evidence from groundbreaking new research.
«Early education leaders need many more high - quality
professional learning opportunities,» said Stephanie Jones, professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and co-director of The Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative.
The Sto - Rox administration has been «awesome,» Martini said, offering nothing but encouragement for his efforts to engage in outside
professional learning opportunities.
This year PAI also launched a raft of fresh
professional learning opportunities in response to demand for support in key areas of school leadership.
• What student resources and
professional learning opportunities propel learning?
We're collecting baseline data on wellbeing, commencing creation of resources, and providing further
professional learning opportunities.
Where microcredentials pertain to teachers rather than students, I think the concept is an outstanding way to do a number of things in the area of professional development: 1) recognize professional learning milestones to inspire continuous improvement; 2) move away from a one - size - fits - all (and oft debunked) approach to salary schedules, which typically depend exclusively on time served and postsecondary attainment; 3) move towards recognition of skill development on an a la carte basis rather than solely as part of an advanced degree program; and 4) generate more personalized and self - paced
professional learning opportunities.
Learn through an array of
professional learning opportunities designed to deepen context knowledge and enhance pedagogical skills.
Check out the personalized
professional learning opportunities including virtual events, readiness assessments, mentoring, and free resources.
Our members are working to connect principals with high - quality
professional learning opportunities focused on building schools and supporting teachers that prioritize the whole child.
Created to advance and inspire teacher innovation, KQED Teach offers a collection of hands - on
professional learning opportunities all focused on the new Media Literacy.
4) PROFESSIONAL LEARNING: Provide relevant, high - quality
professional learning opportunities for members.
Advocate, participate in and lead strategies to support high - quality
professional learning opportunities for colleagues that focus on improved student learning.
Initiate collaborative relationships to expand
professional learning opportunities, engage in research, and provide quality opportunities and placements for pre-service teachers.
While this can be the preferred model for district administrators when looking at continuing education requirements, teachers are finding ways shake up the idea of traditional ongoing
professional learning opportunities.
Ensure teachers are provided with and obtain
professional learning opportunities to interpret assessment data and use it to effectively inform instruction.
The Evaluation Leadership Instrument is used by the principal's supervisor to evaluate how the principal establishes collaborative structures and provides teachers training, feedback, coaching, and
professional learning opportunities in implementing AchieveNJ.
But in actuality ~ somehow it seems bolder to argue that all students can learn regardless of background ~ in safe supportive environments ~ with high - quality teachers and school staff that maintain a collaborative relationship with management ~ have access to
professional learning opportunities ~ and receive adequate salaries and professional respect.
They are provided significant
professional learning opportunities through SFTR (with paid substitutes) and a $ 2,500 stipend.
Therefore, the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) provides
professional learning opportunities in a variety of platforms delivered by national, state, and local experts.
Professional learning opportunities are essential to keeping great teachers in the classroom and helping them use data effectively: to identify what their students have mastered, where they need help, and what kinds of help they need.»
Building Your Literacy Plan and Budget Michael Haggen will review best practices for selecting curricular resources and literacy - related
professional learning opportunities that will support readers advancing from striving to thriving.
Under ESSA, Title II funds can be used to «offer ongoing
professional learning opportunities in early education to reach the thousands of principals already in the field.»
How can they provide
professional learning opportunities that go beyond ratings and checklists?