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Content
• What is Professional Development?
• Institutional vs. Personal Professional Development
• What Works
• Distributed Learning Communities
• Using Social Media
• Strategies & Tools
• Q&A
What is Professional Development? • What is your role?
• What do you seek to gain?
• How do YOU get it?
Purpose of Professional Development
School/District • School-Wide Initiatives
• Satisfies Mandates
• Few days per year
• Early Dismissal
Personal • Personal growth & dev.
• Prof improvement
• Relevant & timely
• Frequent
• Ongoing
• Self-directed
Traditional Professional Development
What Works in PD?
• Small groups of educators
• Work together over time
• Professional learning communities
• Based on principals of effective adult learning
• Deepens educators' content knowledge
National Staff Development Council Standards for Staff Dev.
Principles of Adult Learners
• Self-directed
• Relevant
• Immediately applicable
• Problem-centered
• Informal
• Timely
• Collaborative
Distributed Learning Communities
• Diversity of expertise
• Shared objective of advancing collective knowledge/skills
• Emphasis on Learning How to Learn.
• Mechanisms for sharing what is learned.
Personal PD Using Social Media
Join an online community
• Discover colleagues
• Find experts
• Shadowing (ambient awareness)
• Seeking answers, solutions, support
• Discovering new resources
• Following #hashtag topics
Blogging
Social Bookmarking
• Diigo, Delicious
• Tag & share bookmarks
• Discover others' bookmarks
• Join a group
• Annotate web pages w/highlights & comments
Virtual Events
Organizing Your PLN
RSS
Developing Your PLN