PD-Resources+for+Conducting+Professional+Development

//Post information, resources, and tips for conducting professional development sessions here.//


 * //Continuous School Improvement//
 * //Designing Professional Development//
 * //Facilitating Professional Development//
 * //Pedagogical Resources//
 * //Rubrics for Evaluating Professional Development Sessions//
 * //Technological Resources//
 * //Tools for Supporting Professional Development Sessions//
 * //Videos//

=Continuous School Improvement=

[|Oregon Small Schools Initiative Toolkit] - Useful set of frameworks with accompanying activities and worksheets (in PDF) designed to help small schools self-assess and engage in continuous improvement. Includes action flowcharts, asset maps, change rubrics, community engagement tools, study tour user:chericem1

=Designing Professional Development=

[|Presentation Zen] - A superb blog that analyzes design mistakes made in videos and other media that interfere with communication to the audience user:chericem1

=Facilitating Professional Development Sessions=

[|Group Facilitation Strategies: A Toolbox for Effective Meetings - PDF] - PDF contains 15-20 group process strategies that facilitators can use in professional development workshops and staff meetings to clarify issues, solicit input, create consensus, and make decisions user:chericem1

[|Protocols & Other Resources - PDF] - This PDF contains a set of graphic organizers and matrices that can be used to support group processing in staff meetings and professional development workshops user:chericem1

[|Seven Norms of Collaboration: A Supporting Toolkit - PDF] - Printable reference sheet that defines the 7 Norms of Collaboration (from Garmston & Wellman's "Adaptive Schools"), plus excellent self-assessment and group assessment inventories user:chericem1

[|ToolboxforTeachersQTTemplates.pdf (application/pdf Object)] - An outstanding set of graphic organizers designed for use in professional development activities. Many samples of how to use different ones for strategic planning, problem-solving, etc., as well as for instructional purposes. Bone diagram and several others user:chericem1

=Pedagogical Resources=

[|Best Practices] - Handy site that outlines the basics of a variety of "best practice" teaching strategies, including contracts, differentiated instruction, project-based learning, readers/writers' workshops, simulations, synectics, etc. user:chericem1

[|Show Me the Strategies] - A list of several hundred strategies teachers can use to open class, involve students, and achieve closure user:chericem1

=Rubrics for Evaluating Professional Development Sessions=

[|Tech PD Rubric] - Rubric for evaluating technology-related professional development user:chericem1

=Technological Resources=

[|How to use Google Calendar as a tool for lesson planning at teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk] - Short blog post from a British educator that outlines using Google Calendar as a tool for lesson planning and reflection user:chericem1

Information Fluency - Outstanding list of links (on a Wikispaces wiki) to educational blogs, edtech standards, research reports, tech-related videos, and other web 2.0 resources that would be useful in professional development re: 21st Century Literacies and tech integration user:chericem1

[|PD To Go: Professional Development For Busy Educators : Lessons, files, podcasts] - PD site related to leadership and podcasting. Click on the "subscribe" buttons to get to the table of contents and a host of downloadable resources and materials user:chericem1

[|What Do Faculty Do with Technology Anyhow? Preparing for Tomorrow's Technology with Pedagogical Efficacy - Eller Learning Technologies Center : Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona] - Really outstanding, extremely visual, research-based handouts, ppts, and materials re: helping faculty to learn to teach with technology user:chericem1 [|Wikipatterns.com - learn how to use a wiki successfully with your students! at teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk] user:chericem1

[|Google for Educators]- A FREE seminar in California that helps educators become knowledgeable in current google technology, and how to use it in the classroom. After the seminar, you become "google certified" and then disseminate your knowledge when you return home. user:cartierm

=Tools for Supporting Professional Development Sessions=

[|PowerPoint Timer] user:chericem1

=Videos=

[|Teacher Breaking Down - YouTube] - Cute 40-second video by a group called WavelengthInc.com that provides humorous professional development about the overwhelming demands placed on teachers user:chericem1