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Education Week: Spotlight on Professional Development - 3 views

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  • Teachers Without Borders on 10 Feb 12
     
    The Education Week Spotlight on Professional Development is a collection of articles hand-picked by our editors for their insights on: Using social media and networking for professional development New guidelines for teacher learning Integrating face-to-face and online professional development Using classroom visits to learn best practices from peers Supporting teachers to meet the needs of English-language learners You get the nine articles below and a resource guide in a downloadable PDF.
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  • United States Is Substantially Behind Other Nations in Providing Teacher Professional Development That Improves Student Learning; Report Identifies Practices that Work
  • Every year, nine in 10 of the nation’s three million teachers participate in professional development designed to improve their content knowledge, transform their teaching, and help them respond to student needs. These activities, which can include workshops, study groups, mentoring, classroom observations, and numerous other formal and informal learning experiences, have mixed results in how they effect student achievement.
  • embedded in the work of collaborative professional learning teams that support ongoing improvements in teachers’ practice and student achievement.
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  • the type of support and on-the-job training most teachers receive is episodic, often fragmented, and disconnected from real problems of practice.
  • Teachers lack time and opportunities to view each other’s classrooms, learn from mentors, and work collaboratively,”
  • “The research tells us that teachers need to learn the way other professionals do—continually, collaboratively, and on the job. The good news is that we can learn from what some states and most high-performing nations are doing.”
  • U.S. teachers report little professional collaboration in designing curriculum and sharing practices, and the collaboration that occurs tends to be weak and not focused on strengthening teaching and learning.
  • Research shows that professional development should not be approached in isolation as the traditional “flavor of the month” or one-shot workshop but go hand-in-hand with school improvement efforts
  • Professional Learning in the Learning Profession: A Status Report on Teacher Development in the U.S. and Abroad
  • Teachers are not getting adequate training in teaching special education or limited English proficient students
  • United States is far behind in providing public school teachers with opportunities to participate in extended learning opportunities and productive collaborative communities. Those opportunities allow teachers to work together on instructional planning, learn from one another through mentoring or peer coaching, conduct research on the outcomes of classroom practices, and collectively guide curriculum, assessment, and professional learning decisions
  • other nations provide: • Extensive opportunities for formal and informal in-service development. • Time for professional learning and collaboration built into teachers’ work hours. • Professional development activities that are ongoing and embedded in teachers’ contexts. • School governance structures that support the involvement of teachers in decisions regarding curriculum and instructional practice. • Teacher induction programs for new teachers that include release time for new teachers and mentors, and formal training of mentors.
  • U.S. teachers average far more net teaching time in direct contact with students (1,080 hours per year) than any other OECD nation
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Commentary: Meaningful professional development | EdNewsColorado - 4 views

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    Time, creativity, clear commitments and professionalism ensured every teacher learned and contributed to the conversation. Infusing these elements into our site-based and district level professional learning can shift professional development from something that is done to teachers, to something that is done by teachers.
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Action Research: A Self-Directed Approach to Professional Development - 4 views

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  • The best part about being a teacher is that you get to remain a student forever. Teachers are lifelong learners. To be an effective educator, you must constantly pursue learning through workshops, conferences, on-site or online training modules, and seminars. Professional development can help teachers stay up-to-date with new trends and learn new techniques, strategies, and methods for dealing with various classroom challenges. But all professional development is not the same.
  • If you feel frustrated by not being able to find what you need, how about creating your own solutions? Every classroom challenge is as individual as the students in the class. Sometimes, instead of looking for solutions out there somewhere, it helps if a teacher learns to understand the challenge and experiments to find the answer that suits her class or students. Most teachers shy away from the word "research," thinking it is scholars' job to conduct research and come up with condensed data or analysis. But all of us are researchers, consciously or otherwise.
  • Teachers can do action research by formally defining a problem, drafting a hypothesis, collecting and organizing data, and coming to a conclusion about the effect of the hypothesized change. And the conclusion you derive will be more meaningful and effective because it deals with your challenges and your solutions, keeping in mind your circumstances and resources.
  • Teachers Without Borders on 29 Jul 11
     
    Action Research: A Self-Directed Approach to Professional Development
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Learning From Success as Leverage for a Professional Learning Community: Exploring an A... - 2 views

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  • Teachers Without Borders on 28 Sep 11
     
    Background: Although the professional learning community as a means of improving student achievement has received growing support from researchers and practitioners alike, professionals are still exploring ways to develop interaction networks regarding teaching and learning issues. Purpose: This study explores the evolving stages of a collective learning-from-success process within the framework of a professional learning community.
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Reflective Practice and Inquiry in Professional Development for Online Teaching - 3 views

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  • Teachers Without Borders on 17 Jun 10
     
    This article is a resource for those new to online professional development. It describes professional development training for faculty preparing to teach online. The primary focus of the training is on pedagogical rather than technical skills. This focus is central for encouraging reflection and inquiry to improve teaching practices. The discussion and summary of results provide an overview of the training and evidence of reflection and inquiry. Keywords: Faculty development, online teaching and learning, assessment, student-centered learning, constructivism
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Writing and practitioner inquiry: Thinking relationally - 0 views

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  • Reid envisions teachers as reflexive “inquirers into professional practice who question their routine practices and assumptions”.
  • His vision appreciates the value and possibilities of practitioner inquiry for enhancing an individual’s knowledge and professional learning, while also generating knowledge and capacity for professional communities.
  • Teachers Without Borders on 25 Mar 08
     
    The value of practitioner inquiry as contribution to individual knowledge and as a generator of knowledge for professional communities.
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    Graham Parr (Monash University, Australia)
Jeff Johnson

Reinventing Professional Development in Tough Times - 1 views

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  • Jeff Johnson on 22 Apr 09
     
    Last year, leaders with the Trussville school district in Alabama wanted to help their teachers learn more about integrating Web technologies into their lessons, a central aim of the district's curriculum. Unfortunately, they didn't have enough money in their budget to bring in leading ed-tech experts to provide professional development. So they did it anyway-in a manner of speaking.
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  • Welcome to NEA Academy, NEA's Web site devoted to meeting the professional needs of teachers and education support professionals!  Here you'll find the highest quality courses from the best developers. All professional development courses offered through the NEA Academy are carefully screened against a set of quality standards developed by NEA members in consultation with the National Staff Development Council.  Only the best courses of the highest quality make it through the screening process.
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  • Emily Vickery on 15 Mar 09
     
    Educators at all levels have a responsibility to speak up about the value of professional development. (Available to the public.)
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The Networked Teacher: How New Teachers Build Social Networks for Professional Support - 3 views

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    The Networked Teacher: How New Teachers Build Social Networks for Professional Support
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Report: Professional Learning in the Learning Profession - 0 views

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  • Feb. 4, 2009: Today NSDC releases Professional Learning in the Learning Profession: A Status Report on Teacher Development in the United States and Abroad. This also marks the launch of a multi-year research effort to measure the effectiveness of professional learning at the state leve
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How Blogs, Social Media, and Video Games Improve Education - Brookings Institution - 2 views

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    The appearance of collaboration tools such as blogs, wikis, social media, and video games has altered the way individuals and organizations relate to one another.[i] There is no longer any need to wait on professionals to share material and report on new developments.  Today, people communicate directly in an unmediated and unfiltered manner.
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open thinking » Visualizing Open/Networked Teaching - 0 views

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  • Open teaching is described as the facilitation of learning experiences that are open, transparent, collaborative, and social. Open teachers are advocates of a free and open knowledge society, and support their students in the critical consumption, production, connection, and synthesis of knowledge through the shared development of learning networks.
  • Through the guiding principles of open teaching, students are able to gain requisite skills, self-efficacy, and knowledge as they develop their own personal learning networks (PLNs). Educators guide the process using their own PLNs, with a variety of teaching/learning experiences, and via (distributed) scaffolding.
  • This metaphor projects the role of teacher as one who “knows the terrain”, helps to guide students around obstacles, but who is also led by student interests, objectives, and knowledge. The terrain in this case consists of the development of media literacy (critique & awareness), social networks (connections), and connected/connective knowledge
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3 Teacher Evaluation Mistakes to Avoid - Washington, DC, United States, ASCD EDge Blog ... - 3 views

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  • Teachers Without Borders on 25 May 12
     
    School districts across the US are creating new teacher evaluation systems that are supposed to better identify ineffective teaching and, in some cases, tie a teacher's rating to student performance. My quarrel is not with the evaluation systems themselves however. My quarrel is with how they are being implemented. Here are three of the most common mistakes I've seen:
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