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Professional Development
How Investments in Teacher Professional Development
Can Make a Difference
June 5, 2017
An Active Conversation
Does / Can Professional
Development Matter?
4
This Study
Identified common
features
5
A Paradigm Change
FROM: TO:
Sit and get Content-focused
Drive-by Active
One size fits all Collaborative
Disconnected from Using models & modeling
teachers’ classroom and Coaching
students
Feedback and reflection
Sustained over time
Elements of Effective Professional
Development
Content Focus
8
Active
Learning
Collaboration
10
• lesson plans
• unit plans
Models of
• sample student work
Effective • observations of peer teachers
Practice • video or written cases of teaching
Coaching and Expert Support
12
Feedback
and
Reflection
Sustained Duration
14
National Writing Project
Models of Collaboration
effective
practice Feedback &
reflection
Coaching &
expert Sustained
support duration
15
Creating Conditions for Effective
Professional Development
Challenges to Effective PD
17
Implications for Practice & Policy
Implications for Practice
20
Policy Implications (cont’d)
21
Learning Policy Institute Resources
Report
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