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Professional Development Systems Federico Salas-Isnardi

BUILDING SYSTEM (AT) IC PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 2008 COABE Conference St. Louis, Missouri April 28, 2008. Professional Development Systems Federico Salas-Isnardi. System. Etymologically: To put or set together

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Professional Development Systems Federico Salas-Isnardi

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  1. BUILDING SYSTEM(AT)IC PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT2008 COABE ConferenceSt. Louis, MissouriApril 28, 2008 Professional Development Systems Federico Salas-Isnardi

  2. System • Etymologically: To putor set together • An Arrangementof things or parts so Related as to form a Unityor organic whole • A set of Facts, Principles, Rules, etc. classified or arranged in a Regular Orderly Form to show a Logical Plan Linking the various Parts • A Functionally Related Group of Elements

  3. Example of a System: The Human Body • Its parts don’t work alone although they are unique; • they depend on each other while having individualized needs, and • although they serve distinct purposes, they ultimately function together to make a whole being.

  4. Systems in Adult Education • NCSALL Researchers in 2001 define system as “an institutionalized set of processes and learning activities, sponsored by a state department of adult education or other state-level entity responsibly for ABE, intended to provide ABE Practitioners with professional development.” • “The goal of such processes”, according to the same researchers, “is to support and improve the practice of adult basic and literacy education.”

  5. Systems as change of old PD paradigms • Solution to crisis-mode, reactive, and one-shot PD • In this model, programs offer the same approach to every participant and offer targeted training as a reaction to crises.

  6. Systems as change of old PD paradigms • Alternative to the static “cafeteria” approach to PD • This approach offers PD options, but haphazardly without planning for professional growth. • The cafeteria approach does not offer a balanced meal.

  7. Three System Levels • State –The “umbrella” under which subsystems live • Local Programs –subsystems and/or sets of plans • Individual • What is the role of the individual in the system? • What can the system do for the individual?

  8. System participants: The system must integrate • Local programs –planning for program improvement • Local teachers and other staff –professional growth • Volunteer programs • Workforce Partners • Other Agencies

  9. Common Elements of a System • VISION • NEEDS ASSESSMENT • GOALS and OBJECTIVES • POLICIES • STANDARDS • PLANS • RESOURCES • DELIVERY MODELS • EVALUATION METHODS

  10. Activity # 1 THINK SYSTEMS

  11. Where do we fit in the system? • Local programs should develop plans that tie their PD efforts to the state system and integrate the personal vision and goals of their staff. • Individuals must develop personal visions and professional development plans that meet their goals while enhancing the goals of the program.

  12. Consider… Which of the common elements of a system (slide 9) are pertinent to the individual teacher?

  13. Activity # 2 PERSONAL VISIONS

  14. PERSONAL VISION • Identify your most important VALUES • Identify the things that make your life worth living • Identify your strengths • Identify the one thing you would like to accomplish in life

  15. LEADERSHIP The individual parts of the system work together nurturing each other and benefiting one from the other ONLY under committed leadership able to prop up individual visions while identifying a Shared Vision

  16. Systemic versus Systematic • Arguably, we should be talking about Systemic Professional Development as an expansion of Systematic PD. • Systematic PD can be construed as methodological or organized PD. • SystemicPD is PD designed within a system and with the components of the system in mind. Systemic PD engages all components of the system.

  17. Systemic versus Systematic • If we define system as a “set of processes and learning activities,” as NCSALL does, then we approach PD as a systematic “organized” endeavor. • If we expand the definition to look at PD as a Systemic endeavor we look at the inter-relationship that different components of the system have on each other (e.g., effect of staff on program, of state on staff, of assessment on instruction, etc.)

  18. Think Systems • Local Programs and Teachers must think themselves part of a system. • They are independent and “unique” but they have a role in the system. • If teachers see themselves as outside the system, the system is failing or has already failed.

  19. System Thinking What is Systems Thinking? According to Dr. Peter Senge, MIT • Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. • It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things; for seeing patterns of change rather than static “snapshots.”

  20. RESOURCES • Association of Adult Literacy Professional Developers – AALPD • www.aalpd.org • PD Priorities • PD Standards • PD Policies • Publications • Discussion List available through NIFL • http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/Professionaldevelopment

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