Evaluating Professional Development

Using Glickman (2014) as a reference point, there are two types of opportunity for learning that could be used to make staff development meaningful to teachers: integrated school-wide staff development and individual professional development. When using an integrated school-wide professional development, "it is critical that all members of the school community provide input into the school wide professional development goals” (Glickman, Gordon and Ross-Gordon, 2014). Moreover, the administration must provide an expansive objective for professional development so that all participants can adopt it and stay consistent with the school’s objective. A perfect example of a school-wide professional development would be addressing student discipline (Glickman et al., 2014). While certain groups of teachers might want to compare their decision with other schools, other groups could choose ”to attend a training program on effective discipline” (Glickman et al., 2014). When using individual professional development as an opportunity for learning, it is significant to consider the teacher’s personal input to the school-wide

Planning and Organizing: Claudia continues to meet with her employees that are not meeting the performance goals, on a bi-weekly basis to review and discuss their previous week work performance. She formulates a detailed calendar of all assigned tasks for her unit, including any contingencies for necessary changes.

Narrabundah is located in the inner south city of Canberra, ACT. The ACT Government acknowledges the Ngunnawal people as traditional custodians of the Canberra region (ACT Government,2010). We acknowledge the Ngunnawal custodians of the land and recognize their continuing connection to our community and pay our respects to them, their culture and to their elders past and present. The Canberra region has also been identified as a significant meeting place to neighbouring clans including the Ngarigo, Wolgalu, Gundugurra, Yuin and Wiradjuri people (NATSICC, 2016).

According to Robertson & Dressler (2010), it is important to “develop this tool from the start because this will ensure that you comprehend what you currently meet and need” (p. 212). I will use the Self-Study Planning and Progress Checklist along with the Evidence Collection. Based on the suggestion from the Document or Evidence Collection resource I also plan to use a file box with file folders labeled to organize the documents. These tools contribute to my examination of quality by allowing me to organize, the evidence I gather regarding children’s assessments and social-emotional development. For instance, I will review the programs behavior incident report, staff development file, DRDP group report, and ASQ-SE. Also, I will gather

The PD’S that have and still are the most successful to me are those that fulfill my need or focus on what I enjoy teaching and want to improve upon as an educator. I love any PD on social studies and literacy. It is what I enjoy teaching, but I also yearn to be technology savvy, a competency that must be fulfilled in this growing age of social media. Professional development is great when there are resources to use, time to collaborate with your building staff, teachers from other buildings and the time allotted to process the information presented. When sessions incorporate video clips and activities to motivate and excite, you are more interested. One aspect mentioned in the Mizell article,” Why Professional Development Matters,” is the ability to analyze information presented and share experiences related to the learning.

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I feel in all leadership areas the professional development needs to continue. Completion of a doctorate program does not render one an expert, but equips learners with the desire to continue to seek, discover and grow both professionally and personally.

Did You Know? is a professional development feature which provides caregivers with strategies to complement interaction with children. Example—Theme 4 (p. 36): When children ask you a question, encourage them to answer it before you answer it for them by asking: What do you think?” to allow children to organize their thinking as their verbalize their answer.

Ultimately, if cultural competency and responsive training is not impacting school systems, then there is no purpose in continuing on in this professional development endeavor for administrators. Time, resources, and personnel could be designated toward more relevant and productive trainings. In the academic world, it is imperative that we discover and target programs and philosophies that support our mission of improving school functioning and student

My experience at Kent State so far has been short and excellent. With the help of my advisor, I was very fortunate to be placed at the VA for my practicum. Working with Veterans has been a goal of mine for some time. I would like to say how excellent my professors have been so far, they have provided me with the essential tools that have been an asset while continuing to strengthening my professional skills. The research has been very challenging and rewarding at the same time. Kent State has a strong, challenging and rewarding MSSW program.

One of my roles for the college is that of providing professional development in the form of workshops and individual instruction for teachers. In doing so, I have had developed a set of criteria that I feel makes professional development the most beneficial to the teachers.

In my teaching career it seems that I have intermingled through Snow, Griffin, and Burns’s (2005) model of professional growth that is based on five areas of knowledge- declarative, situated, stable, expert, and reflective (p. 9). I have diverse professional experiences in reading skills and literacy in my nineteen years of teaching. I have taught reading and literacy from kindergarten through adults. As a lifelong learner, I am constantly seeking to increase my knowledge and improve my skills as a teacher of reading and literacy.

I concur with you concerning the professional development plan. I struggled with that myself. It was a lot. I feel the purpose of the professional development plan was to get us thinking. In spite of the failures in your career, it is only a failure if you label it as such. Instead looking at your career, use it as a stepping stone to go to the next level. Take the resources from what you researched. I believe the best tool was comparing our classes to state requirements, information on conferences, and residency directed the plan. The purpose of the plan established personal and professional goals, a description of educational background and research proficiency (Walden University, 2015).

There are many systems of support for professional development. Personally, I prefer books and internet. Also creating occasions to discuss issues, share experiences or to be able to present some new knowledge to colleagues in an informal environment is a good way for co-workers to share good practice. This type of activity within a team will stimulate discussion and provide an opportunity for each person in the team to learn something new and a chance to reflect on their own individual practice and knowledge base.

Being a teacher is not an easy task as many people could think. To be a teacher does not only imply to know the subject to be taught, it also includes being willing to constantly improve oneself integrally, as much as updating the resources and materials one uses in teaching. Reflecting and analyzing over and over again the best way to teach to learn and how to make students to extend what has been learned. The many hours spend in the classroom will never be enough to plan lessons, prepare materials, review pupils tasks and exams, as well, all the administrative requirements one has to cover for whatever institution we work. Besides all this a good teacher, a professional one, will have to find the time to keep preparing to improve