iTeach Professional Development

I*Teach Professional DevelopmentDenise Williams

Professional DevelopmentDrives the quest towards high standards, performance, excellence, and teacher quality.

PD can ignite a revolution in the way we teach and learn.

Should provide optimum learning environment gives the teachers all the tools they need to succeed.

Access to ongoing support to implement the instructional strategies gained from professional development.

Type of TrainingFace to-Face instruction - make it meaningful, engaged teaching, Promotes actively participation in the learning process.Customized and Collaborative - developed custom high quality training modules.. Teachers can tailored prebuilt modules by making them they own ( Math, English, etc.)Blended PD Approach (face-to-face with online courses)Online learning optionsLive trainingArchive

Challenges

Transitioning your schools vision Assist teachers, administrators , educators, to create customized PD workshop and Classroom curriculum Implementing a data-driven, Paperless environment.

Heighten teachers awareness of the practices they need to change to help evaluate whether their process(es) have had the intended impact on learning.

Learning designs that occur during the workday and engage peers in learning, ongoing communication about learning, develop collaborative culture with peer accountability, foster professionalism, and support transfer of the learning to Practice.

Purchasing customized online Pd Tools (TeachScape KL, IteaCH, Wimba, IMPACT Model, NCLTI Framework are keys to the success of implementation of professional development.

ConcernsMoving our school towards data-driven, paperless environment.Assist teachers, administrators , educators, to create customized workshop and coursework.Providing teachers additional workdays and/or time to complete and implement teaching Perhaps provide Continuing credits.

Professional development is not an eventIt is a process of developing professional learning communities, where members exchange feedback about their practice with one another, visit each others classrooms or work settings and share resources.

Develop norms of collaboration and relational trust and employ processes and structures that unleash and strengthen capacity to analyze, plan, implement, support and evaluate practices.

Thank You Do-it-Yourself Professional - Sonja Alexander and Aleigha Henderson-RosserLearning & Leading with Technology (June/July 2010)