PDE
HASD Professional Development Beliefs
High Quality Professional Development should . . .
- Focus on learning, both student and adult
- Be continuous
- Be job-embedded
- Be timely and efficient
- Be cost-effective
- Be grounded by an examination of student work and performance outcomes
- Be driven by multiple forms and sources of data
- Be goal-driven with an evaluative component, both formative and summative
- Offer multiple opportunities or choices for learning
- Account for different career stages and staff readiness
- Acknowledge staff expertise and utilize and reward it through leadership and recognition
- Be responsive to the shifting needs and context of the school
National Institute for School Leadership (NISL) Principles of Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum
- Learning Concepts
- Effort produces achievement
- Learning is about making connections
- We learn with and through others
- Learning takes time
- Motivation matters
- Teaching
- The teacher matters
- Focused teaching promotes accelerated learning
- Clear expectations and continuous feedback activate learning
- Good teaching builds on students’ strengths and respects individuals’ differences
- Good teaching involves modeling what students should learn
- Curriculum
- The curriculum should focus on powerful knowledge
- All students should experience a thinking curriculum
- The best results come from having an aligned instructional system