In order to improve the quality of education your students receive, the quality of teaching the teachers provide must improve as well. There are new ways of effectively educating children and using the old ways will make them take longer to learn new lessons. That is why it is important to invest in professional development for their improvement.
But having training, conferences and seminars is not an assurance of the improvement and positive results from teachers if not done correctly. There are ways to properly do them so the instructions are clearer and easier to follow. Here are some improving educators professional development details which you can use in your sessions.
If you are discussing a teaching method during the session then use this to teach them about it to show them that it works. They will notice if you are using what you are teaching and failing to use it would send a message to them of it being ineffective and not worth replicating. But being able to use it in explaining the method will make it easier to follow and learn from you being the example.
Develop something which can be immediately used after they learned it and have them prepare a lesson plan that uses it in the next two weeks. Doing this would make them implement what they learned immediately in the classroom and have a colleague or administrator observe them. Waiting for an opportunity to implement it would probably make that opportunity disappear.
The feedback the observers will give will be used by the teachers in improving their methods in the next lesson. They could observe for their colleagues as well and give their feedback and discuss these things with each other to know what needs improvement. Doing this would enable them to help one another for the next lessons.
There must be a follow up for the things they have learned during the PD sessions. Failing to do so would make these sessions ineffective and a waste of time and money. There must be someone responsible in the staff to make sure the techniques learned are being used by teachers and would give feedback.
You must think about the long term vision of the school in choosing what technique to implement. This must not change after every few months or every year to avoid frustrating the teachers but instead something to be followed within at least two years. These things take time and practice to master and changing frequently would not achieve this.
The session schedule should be announced in advance to the participating educators and make sure they are all aware of it. Announcing them on the day it will happen would not make the teachers happy and willing to attend them. They also have their own life and family to attend to and breaking their plans would make them lose focus during the session.
Encourage them to teach each other about the things they have learned. They could also learn new things by assigning one a topic and taking turns in teaching the others. Sharing of ideas is also possible through online boards.
But having training, conferences and seminars is not an assurance of the improvement and positive results from teachers if not done correctly. There are ways to properly do them so the instructions are clearer and easier to follow. Here are some improving educators professional development details which you can use in your sessions.
If you are discussing a teaching method during the session then use this to teach them about it to show them that it works. They will notice if you are using what you are teaching and failing to use it would send a message to them of it being ineffective and not worth replicating. But being able to use it in explaining the method will make it easier to follow and learn from you being the example.
Develop something which can be immediately used after they learned it and have them prepare a lesson plan that uses it in the next two weeks. Doing this would make them implement what they learned immediately in the classroom and have a colleague or administrator observe them. Waiting for an opportunity to implement it would probably make that opportunity disappear.
The feedback the observers will give will be used by the teachers in improving their methods in the next lesson. They could observe for their colleagues as well and give their feedback and discuss these things with each other to know what needs improvement. Doing this would enable them to help one another for the next lessons.
There must be a follow up for the things they have learned during the PD sessions. Failing to do so would make these sessions ineffective and a waste of time and money. There must be someone responsible in the staff to make sure the techniques learned are being used by teachers and would give feedback.
You must think about the long term vision of the school in choosing what technique to implement. This must not change after every few months or every year to avoid frustrating the teachers but instead something to be followed within at least two years. These things take time and practice to master and changing frequently would not achieve this.
The session schedule should be announced in advance to the participating educators and make sure they are all aware of it. Announcing them on the day it will happen would not make the teachers happy and willing to attend them. They also have their own life and family to attend to and breaking their plans would make them lose focus during the session.
Encourage them to teach each other about the things they have learned. They could also learn new things by assigning one a topic and taking turns in teaching the others. Sharing of ideas is also possible through online boards.
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