Professional development for teachers workshop

Hundreds of hours are lost every year to ineffective professional development. Here's the PD teachers want to see from school leaders.

Teachers and administrators know that life is BUSY during the school year. It can be very difficult to carve out time for a whole staff professional development workshop. So what other alternatives can instructional coaches and administrators use to help their teachers grow? Individual Coaching Cycles During an individual coaching cycle a teacher is paired

Teachers are busy, so we need to make professional development opportunities worth their while. This blog post by Visionary Teaching offers great ideas for making professional development interactive and menaingful.

After a workshop, collect essential feedback and thoughts from teachers using these educator-centered exit ticket ideas for professional development. #exitticketsforprofessionaldevelopment

Read my five promises on creating and selecting teacher PD that you'll actually love! These promises will be apart of my Virtual Art Retreat!

Demonstrating a commitment to professional development is a critical part of teaching. But sometimes teacher PD is irrelevant or poorly delivered or impersonal. For this reason, Moore English has put together a collection of ideas for teacher-led professional development. PD is best when it's teacher-to-teacher, when it's personal, local, and focused. Moore English specializes in ideas for growing new teachers and teacher leaders and building a school climate that allows teachers to grow

We have all been to our fair share of professional development that has felt like a total waste of time. Yes, even a PD junkie like me who finds the sunshine in everything can admit that. But boring PD doesn’t have to be that way, and admin needs to know this. This summer, I had

Teachers usually hate professional development. Here are some great ideas for staff development.

Do you want to make the move into educational consulting and edupreneurship, but aren’t sure how to get started? Maybe you want to do instructional coaching and mentoring, provide professional development, or support schools and teachers in a variety of other ways, but can’t find any formal or official way of making the career shift. … Continued

Creating professional goals for teachers in the classroom is good, but it can also be the catalyst for personal goals outside the classroom.