characteristics of effective professional development partners in learning institute, july 2011
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Characteristics of effective professional development
Partners in Learning Institute, July 2011
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Systemic and sustainable change
“If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go
far, go together”African Proverb
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Key trends impacting education systems
• Role of educators changing with abundance and access of resources on the internet.
• Work, study, learn anywhere, anytime (“just in time” and “found” learning).
• Cloud-based technologies and decentralised IT support.
• Collaborative work increasingly important as we enter a multidisciplinary world
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Critical challenges
• Training of educators.
• New assessment methods to cope with new ways to author and publish.
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Driver 2: Capacity building
• Anything that is done to increase the collective effectiveness of a group
• This requires the coming together of 3 areas:- New skills/competencies- New resources/ideas- New commitments
• In the case of new technologies not only must educators acquire new skills and understandings, they must integrate technology into curriculum, teaching and learning, and the assessment of learning.
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Resources in the toolkit www.is-toolkit.comThis material is from work done by Michael Fullan
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Taken from David Warlick
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Taken from David Warlick
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What are the key ingredients to a good PD session?
• Reflect individually (5 min)• Make notes on post-its
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Common themes -15 min
• In small groups of 8, share individual reflections
• Come up with top 6 themes• Select a group recorder and add a
sticky to the Corkboard: http://bit.ly/nVVViI
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PD-Challenges?
• In groups of 8, quickly brainstorm challenges and come up with between 1 -4 challenges.
• Select a group recorder to type on corkboard.
• Post on corkboard of challenges. http://bit.ly/oHUzSX
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Challenges-Solutions• Each group assigned one challenge• Each group will use their computers/each other/whatever
they can find to develop some potential solutions to overcome the challenges.
• Each group will select a recorder and using the template found in the Professional Development folder of the Partners in Learning Participant Community, record their solutions.
• Each group will upload their Challenge-Solution sheet to the Community.
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Presentation• Each group nominates two
representatives to present their challenge and solutions.
• Each group gets 2 minutes to present
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What research says…
• Conventional forms of professional development have little effect on educator practices, organizational changes, and student outcomes
• Programs are too top-down and too isolated from classroom realities to make a difference
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Characteristics of Effective Professional Development
integrated with district goals to improve education; guided by a coherent long-term plan; driven by disaggregated data on student outcomes; designed according to teacher-identified needs; primarily school-based; provides a strong foundation in subject content and methods of teaching; informed by research on teaching and learning; designed around collaborative problem-solving; enables teachers to work with colleagues, in and beyond their school
building; is continuous and ongoing, providing follow-up support for further learning; incorporates principles of adult learning; provides sufficient time and other resources; is evaluated ultimately on the basis of its impact on teacher effectiveness
and student learning. http://www.sharingsuccess.org/code/bv/pd.html
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New promising approaches..
• Teacher networks• Collaboration between schools/colleges• Professional development schools• Action research projects• Mentor programs• Peer coaching
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