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Developing Effective Professional Learning
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Implementing Professional Learning
Research has shown that professional learning requires 5 key characteristics to create change. All too often, people who lead these courses fall back to the comfortable method of the sit and get model, negating the very lessons they are trying to impart. In the current century, it is time to…
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Contribution to Your Learning
“Learning never exhausts the mind.” – Leonardo da Vinci Contributions The members of my core group are: Tania Barrientos, Angel Crittend, and Sara Eder Self-Assessment Grade I was extremely active in my core group, consistently submitted my assignments on time, and took care to ensure all information was included.…
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Planning the Professional Development
All too often, teachers are subjected to sit’n’get learning that is frowned upon in the classroom. According to David Phillips (2014), people learn more when engaged and when stimulation is purposeful, meaningful, and direct. Yet, teachers are subjected to walls of text and excessive amounts of clever imagery to…
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Call to Action
“Insanity in individuals is something rare—but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.” (Nietzsche, 2014) After fourteen years the current model of professional development has still not changed significantly. Educators are given exciting ideas to implement, but translating those new concepts to the classroom…
