Share your PL strategy with your colleagues/classmates and seek their input on how well you have addressed the overarching components of your strategy:
- The 5 key principles of effective PD:
- The duration of professional learning must be significant and ongoing to allow time for teachers to learn a new strategy and grapple with the implementation problem.
- There must be ongoing support for a teacher during the implementation stage that addresses the specific challenges of changing classroom practice.
- Teachers’ initial exposure to a concept should not be passive, but rather should engage teachers through varied approaches so they can participate actively in making sense of a new practice.
- Modeling has been found to be highly effective in helping teachers understand a new practice.
- The content presented to teachers shouldn’t be generic, but instead specific to the discipline (for middle school and high school teachers) or grade level (for elementary school teachers).
- Go and show/Alt PL presentation
- PL Outline/blueprint
- Audience and their needs
- How will you foster collaboration?
- Who will lead what sections?
- BHAG & 3 Column Table or UbD Template
- Schedule/timeline
- PL sessions slide deck(s)
- Resources you will need (articles, handouts, etc.)
