How much impact did your last PD have on your staff? Regardless of whether it’s the beginning of your school year, the middle of a semester, or your staff is about to leave for the summer, you have probably invested a lot of time and energy into finding, paying for, and providing professional development for teachers in your district, in … Read More
How to Make Professional Development Worthwhile for Teachers: 3 Things to Remember
As I sit here and write this blog, I am at a district mandated professional development (PD) day… Yup…you guessed it, more downtime than productivity or learning. I am currently residing in the equivalent of adult babysitting. For professional development to be worthwhile for a teacher it needs to provide them with value. In order to increase that value and eventually … Read More