This issue, «Professional Learning: Reimagined,» features articles on Edcamps,
planning professional learning, PLCs, and more.
Are you a school administrator or math leader looking for tools to support
planning your professional learning in mathematics with your colleagues?
The custom - created Professional Goal Setting and Action
Planning Professional Learning Map for Texas Educators aligns to the Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System (T - TESS), a system designed by educators to support teachers in their professional growth.
A new report, Effective Teacher Professional Development, from the Learning Policy Institute (June 2017) by Linda Darling - Hammond, Maria E. Hyler, Madelyn Gardner, and Danny Espinoza provides great guidance for leadership teams engaged in
planning professional learning.
In «
Planning Professional Learning,» Thomas R. Guskey points out that education leaders too often plan learning activities without giving sufficient thought to the goals of those activities — they choose the route for the journey, before deciding on the destination.
When it comes to
planning professional learning, the order of these levels must be reversed.
She points out that
planning professional learning for staff has to be linked to individual needs.
Use the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers and advice from colleagues to identify and
plan professional learning needs.
Those who
plan professional learning experiences often do exactly the same thing.
This is an outstanding read for those who
plan professional learning experiences for teachers.
But how can you focus and
plan your professional learning to make sure these ideas translate into actual change and improvement in your classroom?
Please use this catalog throughout the 2017 - 18 school year to
plan your professional learning, and share with arts (and non-arts) colleagues!
Functions The teacher leader: a) Collaborates with colleagues and school administrators to
plan professional learning that is team - based, job - embedded, sustained over time, aligned with content standards, and linked to school / district improvement goals; b) Uses information about adult learning to respond to the diverse learning needs of colleagues by identifying, promoting, and facilitating varied and differentiated professional learning; c) Facilitates professional learning among colleagues; d) Identifies and uses appropriate technologies to promote collaborative and differentiated professional learning; e) Works with colleagues to collect, analyze, and disseminate data related to the quality of professional learning and its effect on teaching and student learning; f) Advocates for sufficient preparation, time, and support for colleagues to work in teams to engage in job - embedded professional learning; g) Provides constructive feedback to colleagues to strengthen teaching practice and improve student learning; and h) Uses information about emerging education, economic, and social trends in planning and facilitating professional learning.
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planned * Nearly two - fifths (37 %) of the prospective fathers had had previous children; most still had some contact with the children but only two were still living with them and were engaged as actively involved fathers * Two - thirds (65 %) described themselves as having a low or medium sense of reality about their impending fatherhood * Three - quarters were expecting the baby to have a noticeable impact on their way of life * Three - quarters were motivated to
learn more about pregnancy and fatherhood, with partners, family and friends seen as the most important source of information * Very few thought about health
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In direct response to member feedback, SNA has developed a
Professional Standards
Learning Plan.
The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry,
professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons
professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and
professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility
Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons
Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level
learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a
plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.
Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition New York State Assembly NYS Assembly Community Resource Exchange (CRE) SCO Family of Services HCCI Chinese American
Planning Council, Inc Heights and Hills Citizen Action of New York ROCitizen New York Association on Independent Living ATLI - Action Together Long Island NYSCAA New York Immigration Coalition Catholic Charities of Chemung & Schuyler Counties CDRC Labor - Religion Coalition of NYS Catholic Charities
Professional Staff Congress Catholic Charities of Chemung / Schuyler Family Reading Partnership of Chemung Valley New York State Network for Youth Success NAMI Albany County Central Federation of Labor Food & Water Watch Jewish Family Service Metro New York Health Care for All Alliance for Positive Change MercyFirst Center for Independence of the Disabled in New York, Queens (CIDNY) SiCM — Schenectady Community Ministries Coalition for the Homeless CIDNY Citizen Action of NY PEF Retiree Urban Parhways, Inc Community Food Advocates PSC / CUNY AFT Local 2334 New York StateWide Senior Action Council Early Care &
Learning Council Urban Pathways African Services Committee Day Care Council of New York New York State Community Action Association Supportive Housing Network of New York, Inc The Radical Age Movement United Neighborhood Houses
Additional participants in the Jamaica Now
Planning Initiative include: 165th Street Business Improvement District, 180th Street Business Improvement District, Jamaica Center Business Improvement District and Sutphin Boulevard Business Improvement District, A Better Jamaica, A Better Way Family & Community Center, Addisleigh Park Civic Association, Alliance of South Asian American Laborers, America Works, Antioch Baptist Church, Brinkerhoff Action Associates, Inc., Center for Integration & Advancement for New Americans, Center for New York City Neighborhoods, Chhaya Community Development Corporation, Citizens Housing &
Planning Council, Community Healthcare Network of New York City, Cultural Collaborative Jamaica, Damian Family Care Center, Edge School of the Art, Exploring the Metropolis, Farmers Boulevard Community Development Corporation, First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Fortune Society, Goodwill Industries of Greater New York & New Northern New Jersey, Greater Allen Development Corporation, Greater Triangular Civic Association, Indo Caribbean Alliance, Jamaica Center for Arts &
Learning, Jamaica Hospital, Jamaica Muslim Center; Jamaica Performing Arts Center, Jamaica YMCA, King Manor, LaGuardia Community College Adult & Continuing Education, Mutual Housing Association of New York, Neighborhood Housing Services Jamaica, New York Alliance for Careers in Healthcare, Queens College, Queens Council on the Arts, Queens Economic Development Corporation, Queens Hospital, Queens Legal Services, Queens Library; Queens Workforce1 Center, SelfHelp, Sikh Cultural Society, Sunnyside Community Services, Inc., The Jamaica Young
Professionals, The Jamaica Youth Leaders, The Tate Group, Upwardly Global, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, and Y - Roads.
List of Supporting Organizations: • African Services Committee • Albany County Central Federation of Labor • Alliance for Positive Change • ATLI - Action Together Long Island • Brooklyn Kindergarten Society • NY Immigration Coalition • Catholic Charities • Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens • Catholic Charities of Buffalo • Catholic Charities of Chemung / Schuyler • Catholic Charities of Diocese of Albany • Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse • CDRC • Center for Independence of the Disabled NY • Children Defense Fund • Chinese - American
Planning Council, Inc. • Citizen Action of New York • Coalition for the Homeless • Coalition on the Continuum of Care • Community Food Advocates • Community Health Net • Community Healthcare Network • Community Resource Exchange (CRE) • Day Care Council of New York • Dewitt Reformed Church • Early Care &
Learning Council • East Harlem Block Nursery, Inc. • Family Reading Partnership of Chemung Valley • Fiscal Policy Institute • Food & Water Watch • Forestdale, Inc. • FPWA • GOSO • GRAHAM WINDHAM • Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition • HCCI • Heights and Hills • Housing and Services, Inc. • Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement • Jewish Family Service • Labor - Religion Coalition of NYS • Latino Commission on AIDS • LEHSRC • Make the Road New York • MercyFirst • Met Council • Metro New York Health Care for All • Mohawk Valley CAA • NAMI • New York Association on Independent Living • New York Democratic County Committee • New York State Community Action Association • New York State Network for Youth Success • New York StateWide Senior Action Council • NYSCAA • Park Avenue Christian Church (DoC) / UCC • Partnership with Children • Met Council •
Professional Staff Congress • PSC / CUNY AFT Local 2334 • ROCitizen • Schenectady Community Action Program, Inc. • SCO Family of Services • SICM — Schenectady Community Ministries • Sunnyside Community Services • Supportive Housing Network of New York, Inc • The Alliance for Positive Change • The Children's Village • The Door — A Center of Alternatives • The Radical Age Movement • UJA - Federation of New York • United Neighborhood Houses • University Settlement • Urban Pathways, Inc • Women's Center for Education & Career Advancement
Instead of shuttering failing schools, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a $ 150 million
plan Monday for boosting the struggling programs, extending the school day by an hour, adding summer
learning opportunities and increasing
professional development.
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plans to work with
professionals at DNREC and the St. Jones Reserve, as well as with Amy Trauth - Nare, senior associate director of UD's
Professional and Continuing Studies, to develop a module using phenomena driven instruction — or place - based instruction, such as
learning at the St. Jones Reserve — to specifically address topics on carbon and energy exchange in ecosystems.
Initially, my efforts were focused on
learning about the medical writing industry; defining the parameters of the company and developing a business
plan; identifying government regulations and legal considerations; locating sources of
professional, financial, and emotional support; finding other individuals with complementary skills and expertise (graphic designers, photographers, translators) that could work under the umbrella of my company as needed; and
learning new skills or improving existing ones.
Plans to expand Michigan Medicine's Clinical Simulation Center, an innovative instructional learning laboratory used to train health care professionals, took a step forward today with U-M Board of Regents approval of the project's proposed budget and design p
Plans to expand Michigan Medicine's Clinical Simulation Center, an innovative instructional
learning laboratory used to train health care
professionals, took a step forward today with U-M Board of Regents approval of the project's proposed budget and design
plansplans.
Weekly coaching, personalized meal
plans, and a plethora of educational tools will help you improve your consistency, get
professional insight on what and how much you should be eating, dial in your daily routine that works with YOUR schedule,
learn more about nutrition, and be held accountable to take fast action.
Is there any value in
learning to dance if you have no
plans of becoming a
professional dancer?
On the
professional learning front, GTANSW held its annual conference this year at the Sydney Olympic site and offered delegates the opportunity to go on fieldwork trips relating to urban
planning issues - exploring the changing use of the site from its sporting focus in the year 2000, to business development and future residential use.
There are several examples of OER available, including image and audio resources, books in the public domain, video and audio lectures, interactive simulations, game - based
learning programs, lesson
plans, textbooks, online course curricula,
professional learning programs, and online
learning platforms.
Across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the ICT Mark, administered by Naace, is a good indicator of the maturity achieved by schools in their use of ICT in Leadership and Management,
Planning,
Learning, Assessment,
Professional Development and use of Resources.
When online
learning is used as the primary driver of instruction, teachers inevitably give up control over many aspects of curriculum
planning and lesson delivery; and in low - quality implementations of blended
learning, the teacher's
professional judgment ends there.
Generate an explicit theory of action and first - draft action
plan that connects instructional rounds within your organizational landscape and other
professional learning structures and instructional improvement efforts
Collaboration was at the centre of the school's approach to
professional learning as teachers were engaged in gathering and evaluating evidence, sharing ideas, providing each other with feedback and
planning teaching and
learning programs together throughout the project.
In fact, the UK's largest study into the use of VR eLearning by Kallidus shows that 95 % of
Learning and Development professionals plan to use VR for learning in their organization, with over a third planning to roll out VR over the next thre
Learning and Development
professionals plan to use VR for
learning in their organization, with over a third planning to roll out VR over the next thre
learning in their organization, with over a third
planning to roll out VR over the next three years.
Many of you said Teacher helps you on a really practical level, «[I take the articles] to
professional discussions with a focus on reflective practice, to feed into
professional learning communities, influence strategic
planning agendas and to focus on the bigger picture through strategic steps towards improvement.»
Gaining an insight into how tablets are being used to enhance teaching and
learning means that
planning for implementations and
professional development can make the most of the
learning opportunities that these devices have the potential to enable.
Teachers at the school collect data on student progress every five weeks and use it to inform their fortnightly collaborative
professional learning sessions and
planning.
Professional learning and support is provided to team leaders by the principal and academic partners and all participants are released for four half days to work on key elements of the project throughout the year, in addition to meeting regularly for
planning, to discuss evidence and to provide feedback to each other.
The model incorporates
professional learning, class modelling, reflection and collaborative
planning and has led to a significant shift in practice for the focus teachers.
Effective performance and development requires setting clear goals, derived from an identified need, and which include a
plan for translation to practice and inform the selection of
professional learning activities.
Gates support, which usually begins with
planning grants of $ 100,000, pays for joint
professional development; for designing a universal enrollment system; for establishing common metrics for evaluating all students, regardless of school type; and for creating more personalized
learning for students.
But MNPS expects this to be a more robust experience as they train under a school's highest - performing educators, participating fully as members of the core instructional staff in
planning,
professional learning communities, and teaching.
Ongoing applied
professional growth requires a change in the school schedule that allows time during the regular school day for teachers to
learn,
plan, mentor, and share with other teachers so they can constantly improve the quality of their instruction.
Students
learn research and community - engagement skills more commonly taught in graduate - level urban
planning programs than in high school, and produce
professional - quality reports incorporating data they have gathered and analyzed.
«Overall, the whole kit bag of aligning staff performance
plans with the annual implementation
plan, [and] the
professional learning program gives a strong focus to our work,» Rice tells Teacher.
A formative approach to peer assessment helps students to help one another
plan their
learning, identify their strengths and weaknesses, target areas for remedial action, and support metacognitive and other personal and
professional skills.
«We appreciate the generosity of many Harvard Clubs in enabling educators in their local communities to
learn with our faculty through our
professional education programs,» said Keith Collar, associate dean for
planning and outreach at HGSE's Research, Innovation, and Outreach.