Exploring informal professional development Welcome Your facilitator is

1. Exploring informal professional development Welcome Your facilitator is

2. Schedule 2

3. Intended outcomes By the end of this module you should: • be able to identify key features of effective professional development • be able to analyse the effectiveness of a range of formal and informal learning opportunities • know about a range of strategies to support professional development in your institution • be able to implement a professional development activity in your institution. 3

4. Effective professional development 4

5. Activity 1 – Key features of effective professional development Develop personal as well as professional growth Formal training Structured to have clear outcomes Access should be transparent, fair and equitable Based on sound educational practice Meet the needs of the individual and the organisation Both institutions and teachers are committed Entitlement for all Led by experienced and professionally credible presenters Supports reflection and inquiry Avoids the 'deficit model' Placements in other schools or by ‘acting up’ in your own school Building on what teachers already know Informal networking Grounded in classroom practice Opportunity to work in collaboration Collaboration Clear about what success looks like Relevant 5

6. Activity 1 – questions How difficult was it to come to an agreement? To what extent did your top five features relate to the different views of effective professional development in each of the three articles? 6

7. Activity 1 – feedback 7

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13. Personal Learning Network The entire collection of people with whom you engage and exchange information, sometimes online Learners create connections and develop a network that contributes to their professional development and knowledge Involves an individual’s topic oriented goal, a set of practices or techniques aimed at attracting or organizing a variety of relevant content sources, selected for their value, to help the owner accomplish a professional goal or personal interest. David Warlick Personal Learning Networks consist of the people a learner interacts with and derives knowledge from in a Personal Learning Environment The learner does not have to know these people personally or ever meet them in person Set own learning goals Manage learning; managing both content and process Communicate with others in the process of learning

14. PLN Activity In breakout rooms Write responses on whiteboard Be prepared to feedback to everyone in 6 minutes

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19. Possible barriers & solutions

20. Success?

21. Information and support

22. Intended outcomes By the end of this module you should: • be able to identify key features of effective professional development • be able to analyse the effectiveness of a range of formal and informal learning opportunities • know about a range of strategies to support professional development in your institution • know what a personal learning network is • be able to implement a professional development activity in your institution. 22

23. Questions and next steps