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A Continuum of Staff Development

A Continuum of Staff Development. Performance Development. Improvement Strategy. Personnel Benefit. Teacher-focused. Performance-focused. Student-focused. New Understanding of Professional Development. FROM. TO. Done to us. Done by us. Occasional. Constant. Fragmented. Coherent.

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A Continuum of Staff Development

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  1. A Continuum of Staff Development Performance Development Improvement Strategy Personnel Benefit Teacher-focused Performance-focused Student-focused

  2. New Understanding ofProfessional Development FROM TO Done to us Done by us Occasional Constant Fragmented Coherent Short-term Long-term Process-focused Content-focused

  3. Changing Our Language FROM TO Conduct . . . Facilitate . . . Attend . . . Collaborate Do . . . Learn/Apply Inservice day Job-embedded Getting my hours Improving my practice and students’ learning

  4. Faulty Assumptions • If educators attend a professional development session, they will be able to implement what they learned. • If we improve the quality and/or length of the session, educators will be better able to implement what they have learned. • If educators do not implement what they have learned, they are resisting change.

  5. Faulty Assumptions • If we had more time and/or money for professional development, we would have better success. • Others . . .

  6. Challenge of Evaluating Professional Development • “Current problems and limitations of program evaluation lie more with lack of adequate conceptual framework of the program than with methodological weakness.”— Chen, 1990

  7. Professional DevelopmentEvent vs. Program • Professional Development Event • A learning experience designed to transfer knowledge and develop skill • Professional Development Program • Planned, coherent, in-depth actions and the support system designed and implemented to develop educators’ knowledge, attitudes, skills, aspirations, and behaviors to improve student achievement.

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