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Created by the Annenberg Foundation, this site provides a variety of classroom resources for teachers, including Lesson Plans. Lesson plan database can be searched by grade level as well as subject area.

By Juhyung Harold Lee as a Viewpoint in SchoolBook, December 23 2011. Lee argues that coaching -- learning effective strategies from trusted former teachers -- is the key to improving teaching. 

A course presented by Innovative Educators, the course is available on-demand as a webinar. Full details of learning objectives and faculty bios available on this page.

By Ian Quillen of the Digital Education (blog) in Education Week, September 2 2010. This study suggests that "Algebra I teachers who were trained in and used a program that allowed them to monitor students' progress on graphing calculators led to significantly improved achievement by their students on a researcher-designed test." This blog post (and the video link) both stress that it is the combination of technology AND professional development that has provided these positive results. \nNOTE: First link to Summary of Findings is a Texas Instruments report (TI produces the graphing calculator that is part of the study). However, the study was conducted with outside consultants, including SRI.

Professional development that allows teachers to choose what they want to learn, is accessible through technology, and ties data to student success works.

By Atul Gawande. Published by Metropolitan, 2007. This book, written by a doctor, looks at how doctors try to match their best intentions with best performance.

The Faculty Inquiry Network (FIN) "is comprised of community college faculty from across California, working in teams to investigate a complex problem in basic skills education..." (from Info page). Together, they have produced this beautiful blog which describes faculty inquiry ("a form of professional development") and includes resources and a toolkit. There is also an email subscription available, to better keep current with this project.

By Amy Gerstein, John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities. For The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Problem Solution Exploration Papers. This paper explores faculty professional development to address limitations of developmental education.

By Thomas A. Angelo, DePaul University - School for New Learning. "This paper synthesizes theories, findings, and strategies from a variety of literatures into seven transformative ideas which, taken together, have the potential to make our mental models of and approaches to faculty development more effective."

Shared by Y.H. in January coffeeklatch

The State of Texas Academic Resource Link (STARLink) network provides over 150 hours of professional development programming annually to member colleges and universities. STARLink is an Agency of the Texas Association of Community Colleges

A webinar about Learning Outcomes, "Developing and Assessing Course Learning Objectives," was recommended by R.O. in December.

An online only grad school for teacher preparation in NY state helps teachers in their own classrooms instead of in a teacher prep class outside of where they work. Videos of teachers teaching and other techniques are used to train teachers.

Posted by Tony Bates to his blog on August 1, 2011. Bates, who runs a consultancy to teach about e-learning, argues that online learning is ever more important in post-secondary education (he writes from Canada, but his statistics are for all of North America), but that most post-secondary teachers have been trained very little in pedagogy and "teaching" at all, less so in online teaching and learning. He seeks comments and feedback to his argument.