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PD 360

by Karen M.

Jun 8, 2011

Does anyone else use this resource? It has amazing potential, great resources, very easy to use. You can watch videos at home on your computer. My district is utilizing this. I think they offer a free trial membership. You can google it to get more info.

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Kathleen Morlan I loved PD 360. Unfortunately, the board cut it this year. :(

On 6/08/11, Karen M. wrote: > Does anyone else use this resource? It has amazing > potential, great resources, very easy to use. You can > watch videos at home on your computer. My district is > utilizing this. I think they offer a free trial > membership. You can...See More

Jun 20, 2011

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Teri On 6/20/11, Kathleen Morlan wrote: > I loved PD 360. Unfortunately, the board cut it this year. :( > > On 6/08/11, Karen M. wrote: >> Does anyone else use this resource? It has amazing >> potential, great resources, very easy to use. You can >> watch videos at home on your computer. My district is >> utilizing this....See More

Jun 30, 2011

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Components of a strong professional development program

by In Teachers.Net Gazette

Jun 8, 2011

Excerpt from the Dec./Jan. Effective Teaching column by Harry and Rosemary Wong:

Effectiveness defined

Professional development is a continuum of planned activities designed to raise the skill level of teachers. Professional development is a way to induct teaches into the culture, mission, academic standards, and vision of the dis...See More

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Staff Development non-existent

by Terry

Jun 8, 2011

Due to the furlough days in Georgia, we have lost teacher work days as well as staff development days.

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summer workshops

by sandy

Jun 10, 2011

I am searching for a high quality workshop. Any suggestions for a high school English teacher?

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PLC

by mary

Jun 10, 2011

I just came back from a Professional Learnings Community at work training in Las Vegas. It was a very good training and if your school has not began to implement this process in your school, you might want to look into it. It is more again becoming a TEAM not just a group of teachers working in a building together. Check at solution-tree.com and se...See More

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meep Hard to sell....We do PLCs at our school and they are pretty much a waste of time. There are some good things about them, but they are not really serving the purpose at this point. We have done them several years now because they are, of course, the new IN thing. :-)

Jun 23, 2011

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Teri I love PLCs. I'm a member of several different PLCs at my school, including one for intensive reading teachers and another for the use of technology in our classrooms. We can learn so much from each other.

On 6/13/11, mary wrote: > Well, I found out in this conference that not everyone does their > PLCs right. When you actually atten...See MoreI love PLCs. I'm a member of several different PLCs at my school, including one for intensive reading teachers and another for the use of technology in our classrooms. We can learn so much from each other.

On 6/13/11, mary wrote: > Well, I found out in this conference that not everyone does their > PLCs right. When you actually attend a training on your own and > hear how it is supposed to work then you can go back and make > changes where you see they are needed. I worked in a school this > past year in which we did have PLC meetings. But where we are a > small school I couldn't get the whole jest of things but the > conference helped me see where we do do things that are part of a > PLC. We do get together and we come up with common learning > goals for our students and comon assessments. There is only one > 5th grade class and one 4th grade class but we came together and > found skills that we both were required to cover and tested the > students and were able to group them in groups so that one day a > week we had "Laundry Day" this was our intervention day and we > would break the students into 4 different groups split between 6 > teachers that included all our resource teachers and teach the > skill and they would move from one group to another according to > how they worked through the skill. I see so much more that we can > do. I really like how a PLC is suppossed to work. Getting all > teachers on board is the problem in most schools. > On 6/11/11, what sorts of work wrote: >> do you do in your PLC's? When ours first started, it seemed to >> be a good time to discuss students. We were told it is for >> professional development and improving our teaching. I could >> see the value of taking a student's needs and thinking about >> how we can improve our Tier 1 teaching to encompass that. I've >> now kind of come full circle to realizing that discussing >> articles / book chapters and how it relates to our classroom >> teaching filters down to all students. In one of the 2 schools >> I work in, however, there isn't team time and PLC might best >> be used for this in that small school. >> >> On 6/10/11, mary wrote: >>> I just came back from a Professional Learnings Community at >>> work training in Las Vegas. It was a very good training >>> and if your school has not began to implement this process >>> in your school, you might want to look into it. It is more >>> again becoming a TEAM not just a group of teachers working >>> in a building together. Check at solution-tree.com and see >>> what they offer in training.

Jun 30, 2011

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would you please answer 4 question survey for me?

by muse (xposted to main board)

Jun 13, 2011

i posted it there and then realized that this board was here. I tried to do the survey before but there was a glitch but it's fixed now.

I would appreciate your help with the survey and I thank you for your time!

muse

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Good and inexpensive professional development

by Nick Pezzuto

Jun 14, 2011

I found this company last Summer. They offer teacher professional developement that is inexpensive and university accredited. Alot of teachers in my district use them.

Thought I would pass it along. Thanks, Nick

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book study suggestions

by amccomas121

Jun 16, 2011

I'm wondering if anyone has a book title to suggest as the focus for staff development for K-12 arts teachers. In my school, we've read about the FISH philosophy, the Fred Factor, and others, but I would be interested in hearing your ideas.

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Painless Staff Development

by Tex

Jul 11, 2011

I found a site that specializes in "painless" PD:

It's free It is on my computer, where I access it when it is convenient for ME! It is so good, my Principal likes it also! Click the link below to sign up and pay zero dollars....really!

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