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Research on Effective Professional Development (Standards of Professional…
Research on Effective Professional Development
What is effective PD?
Four pre-re of PL (Learning Forward, 2011) : (1) Educators commitment to all students (2) educators come ready to learn (3) Fostering collab inquiry (4) Educators learn in different ways and at different rates
Five general principles for PD (Desimone and Garet (2015):
It is easier to improve content knowledge than it is to change instruction techniques
Teachers vary in their response to the PD
PD is more successful if linked to classroom activities
Consideration is given to urban contexts
Leadership is supportive
Jensen et al. (2016) PL in high performing systems
Tied to improvement cycles
allocation of resources
Adult learning principles
Evaluation and accountability measures
What encompasses PD? (Avalos, 2011)
Teacher learning
Learning how to learn
Transforming knowledge into practice
Evaluating professional learning (Guskey, 2014) - Five levels of professional learning evaluation
Standards of Professional Learning (Learning Forward, 2011)
Learning communities
Leadership
Resources
Data
Learning designs
Implementation
Outcomes
Improvement Science
PL is developed around improvement cycles (Jensen et al 2016)
Refine
Evaluate the impact
Develop teaching practices for the next stage of student learning
Assess student learning
Theoretical Perspectives
Adult Learning (Rohlwing, R. L., & Spelman, M.,2014).
Situated Learning
Sociocultural (Vygotsky, 1978)
Sociocultural approaches to PD (Raphael et al., 2014)