SERVICES AND SUPPORT
Professional Development
Professional Development
Professional Development
Professional development (PD) often refers to a structured training with activities that teachers engage in to enhance their knowledge, skills, and competencies in their profession. It is often a one-size-fits-all approach and typically associated with one-time workshops, seminars, trainings, or lectures. The focus of professional development is on acquiring new knowledge, learning specific strategies or techniques, and developing practical skills that can be applied in the classroom.
Professional Learning
Professional Development
Professional Development
Professional learning (PL) engages and encourages educators to collaborate continuously to develop and practice new methods for educating students. It involves experiences such as intensive sessions, collaborating with other teachers, coaching and support, and more training and discussion during the academic year as follow-up. Professional learning aims to increase student achievement and teacher effectiveness through collaborative and continuous learning experiences.
(Based on the book from Solution Tree.)
Learn how to plan and provide inquiry-based teaching and learning experiences driven by good questions that will "hook" students' curiosity and interest to learn, set the instructional focus, serve as assessments, and personalize learning.
(Based on the book from Solution Tree.)
Learn how Depth of Knowledge (DOK) as a concept and language clarifies the cognitive demand of standards, activities, and assessments and how the DOK Levels can be used to plan and provide rigorous and response teaching and learning experiences.
(Based on the book published by ASCD.)
Learn what the eight different types of good questions are that promote cognitive rigor by challenging students to demonstrate different levels of thinking and understand and use their learning at different levels of Depth of Knowledge (DOK).
NOW AVAILABLE!
Inquiring Minds Want to Learn:
Posing Good Questions
to Promote Student Inquiry
by
Erik M. Francis
Published by Solution Tree