Monday, 23 July 2018
Making Professional Learning Personal
I am going to be simple and direct: This chapter clearly spoke to me in saying that you can give all the PD there is but if the teachers are not able to take it on ( for what ever reason) than the PL is ineffectual and that Pl should be presented in the way we would expect our teachers to present new learning to our students. Our PL should models our an inquiry based approach using the strategies that we would use in a classroom situation. Leanda has been doing this with her work on feedback.
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I agree jenny - If staff do not see how it will impact on their work they tend to switch off and not take on the value of it.
ReplyDeleteI also think the change in wording from Staff Meeting or Professional Development to Professional Learning is important as it continually focusses the staff to the fact we are continually learning and no one has the answers.