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National Staff Development Council Standards
Cindy BrownJill EricksonVera WeberJerad VoglewedeCrysta Wagner
ED635 Personnel, Supervision, and Staff DevelopmentSpring 2009
Powerful Forms of Staff Development
Staff Development Defined...
Staff development improves the learning of all
students.
The process of providing ongoing opportunities for
employees to improve their
knowledge and skills.
NSDC’s Standards Text's Standards
Achievement&
Engagement
Context Standards
Staff development that improves the learning of all students:
• Organizes adults into learning communities whose goals are aligned
with those of the school and district.
• Requires skillful school and district leaders who guide continuous
instructional improvement.
• Requires resources to support adult learning and collaboration.
Learning Communities
Staff development that improves the learning of all students organizes adults into learning communities whose goals are aligned with those of the school and district.
Learning Communities
• Commitment to the norms o continuous improvement and experimentation
• Engage members in improving their daily work
o advances achievement of district and school goals for student learning.
• Teams vary in size
o meet almost dailyo take collective responsiblity for the learning of all students
Learning Communities
• Ongoing • Consistent
• Scheduled
Learning
Planning
Problem
Solving
LeadershipStaff development that improves the learning of all students requires skillful school and district leaders who guide continuous instructional improvement.
Leadership
• Quality teaching in all classrooms necessitates skillfull leadership at the district, school, and classroom levels.
• Leaders recognize quality professional development as the
key strategy for supporting significant improvements. • Leaders articulate the critical link between improved student
learning and the professional development of teachers. • Skillfull leaders establish policies and structures that support
ongoing professional learning and continuous improvement.
Resources
Staff development that improves the learning of all students requires resources to support adult learning and collaboration. • Well designed and implemented professional development
is an essential long-term investment in successfully teaching all students to high standards.
• A variety of resources are needed to serve many different
purposes of professional development.
Process Standards
• Uses disaggregated student data to determine adult learning priorities, monitor progress, and help sustain continuous improvement.
• Uses multiple sources of information to guide improvement and demonstrate
its impact. • Prepares educators to apply research to decision making.
• Uses learning strategies appropriate to the intended goal.
• Applies knowledge about human learning and change.
• Provides educators with the knowledge and skills to collaborate.
Staff development that improves the learning of all students:
Data Driven Staff development that improves the learning of all students using disaggregated student data to determine adult learning priorities, monitor progress, and help sustain continuous improvement.
• Analyzing data and developing goals helps to determine the content of the teacher's professional development for instruction, curriculum, or assessment.
• The use of data in staff development efforts needs to be measureable in
order to see if its effective.
• In order to sustain momentum, teachers need to see improvement in
student learning as a result of staff development.
• Carefully examining student work is in itself a means of staff development.
Data DrivenStaff development that uses data from various sources to drive their decisions helps to provide meaningful guidance to both teachers and administrators.
EvaluationStaff Development that improves the learning of all students uses multiple sources of information to guide improvement and demonstrate its impact.
Is staff development money really making an improvement in our schools?
EvaluationThe purpose of evaluation is to show evidence or judge whether or not staff development has been worthy of the time, effort, and money spent on it. Different groups require different measureable evidence: • Participants need to know if student learning improved due to effective
staff development. • Staff development planners and administrators need evidence that staff
development is making a difference. • School boards and legislators want to know if their investment is paying
off.
Research-Based • Staff development that improves
the learning of all students: prepares educators to apply research to decision making.
• Teachers and administrators are
informed of the latest educational research when selecting content and professional learning processes.
Research-BasedDue to the fact it can become confusing for educators to select research-based improvements because of varying opinions among researchers, it is important to have teams of teachers and administrators study the research that supports instructional improvement or whole-school reforms through:
o Reading research reportso Talking with researchers on the telephone or inviting them to the
schoolo Visiting schools that have adopted this approach
Designing a pilot study is another form of research to use in determining the effectiveness of a program before the program is fully implemented.
o In order for the pilot study to effectively assess the program, it must
clearly outline the program's goals, methods, and indicators of success.
Design Standard
Staff development that improves the learning of all students uses learning strategies appropriate to the intended goal.
Design Standard
It is essential that staff development leaders select learning strategies based on the intended outcomes and their diagnosis of participants' prior knowledge and experience.
Learning• Staff development that improves the learning of all
students applies knowledge about human learning and change.
• Human learning is based on a common set of principles.
o Learning methods used in professional development should mirror the methods we use to teach our students.
Learning• Educators must go beyond understanding new ideas for
their "face value", but instead strive for a more complete understanding of its purpose, critical attributes, meaning, and connections to other approaches.
• Professional development should provide various learning
styles, such as seeing, hearing, doing, or electronic resources that meet the needs of all staff members.
• Educational leaders need to be understanding of the
anxiety and fear staff may feel when going through a change and harbor a respectful and trusting environment where these feelings can be communicated.
Collaboration Skills
• Staff development that improves the learning of all students: provides educators with the knowledge and skills to collaborate.
• Organized groups provide social interaction that often
deepens learning and the interpersonal support and synergy necessary for creatively solving the complex problems of teaching and learning.
• While face-to-face professional learning is a preferred
method in collaboration, exploring electronic forms of collaborating with teachers from around the world can also be a vital method.
Collaboration Skills
Content Standards
Staff development that improves the learning of all students:
• Prepares educators to understand and appreciate all students, create safe, orderly, and supportive learning environments, and hold high expectations for their academic achievement.
• Deepens educators' content knowledge, provides them with research-
based instructional strategies to assist students in meeting rigorous academic standards, and prepares them to use various types of classroom assessments appropriately.
• Provides educators with knowledge and skills to involve families and
other stakeholders appropriately.
Equity Standard
Effective educators:
• Know and demonstrate appreciation for all students
• Establish classroom learning environments that are emotionally
and physically safe • Communicate high expectations for academic achievement and
quality interpersonal relationships
Equity Standard“Teachers' knowledge of their students is an essential ingredient
of successful teaching.”
Staff development helps teachers: • Understand social/emotional characteristics of students
• Provide strategies for tapping the unique learning strengths of each student
• Use knowledge of their students' interests and backgrounds to assist them in planning meaningful, relevant lessons
Quality Teaching
Instructional leaders and administrators must make teacher content knowledge and skills related to curriculum, instruction, and assessment high priorities.
• Ongoing professional learning and collaboration
• Provide teachers with data to assist with formative classroom assessment
• Create a culture of innovation and continuous improvement by regular classroom visits to observe instruction
• Engaging in frequent conversations with teachers individually and collectively about instruction and student learning
Quality Teaching.
Deep understanding
of subjectsthey teach
Participate in rigorous
professional learning
Apply variousClassroom Assessment
strategies
Useappropriateinstructional
methods
Quality Teachers
Student Success
Student Success
Student Success
Student Success
Family Involvement
Effective partnerships require leadership, a compelling purpose for their work, and a set of mutually agreed-upon goals. Educators must be knowledgeable about various ways in which families and community members can be involved meaningfully in the affairs of the school for the benefit of students.
Provides teachers and administrators with important tools for family involvement
Establish partnerships with the families or caregivers of their students
See consensus building with the broader school community
• Strengthen connections with families and the community by posting school news and homework assignments on school web sites
• Eases communication with teachers by providing e-mail or voice mail access to families
• Increases the availability of computers to all students by working with community organizations such as libraries and churches.
• Understand backgrounds and challenges of their students and their families
• Communicate clearly and respectfully with family
• Demonstrate genuine interest in the welfare of the child and family
• Conduct meetings that create a sense of teamwork between home and school
• Delineate ways for providing support for a student's learning at home
• Demonstrate ways caregivers may be involved in schools volunteers or committee members
• Communicate in clear, direct language (both orally and in writing)
• Conduct meetings that balance task achievement and relationships
• Clear about their own values and beliefs and respectful of the values and beliefs of others
• Convey authentic interest in the perspectives of others
• Listen deeply and honor others' points of view
• Identify areas of common interest
TechnologyTeachersAdministrators
Family Involvement