PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
Research shows that high quality professional development leads to better instruction and improved student learning when it connects to the curriculum materials teachers use, the district and state academic standards that guide their work, and the assessment and accountability measures that evaluate their success.
Professional Learning
Services Include:
Services Include:
- Professional Development and Training
- Professional Learning Communities
- Workshops and Seminars
- Coaching and Mentoring
Examples of Professional Learning Activities:
- Deliver professional development & training in current best practice Instructional methods
- Differentiated Instruction
- DAP - Developmentally Appropriate Practices
- Culturally Relevant Teaching
- ELL Strategies (SIOP)
- Cooperative Learning
- Multicultural Education
- Provide delivery of high quality workshops & seminars
- Team Building
- Literacy Development
- Reading Workshop
- Writing Workshop
- Literature Circles
- Curriculum Mapping
- Early Childhood Programming
- Cultural Competence
- Foster professional learning communities that focus on results and continuous improvements
- Support efforts regarding continuous training, improvement, and evaluation of professional instructional staff
- Provide coaching, modeling and support to new teachers and those in transition
- Coaching Models (Peer, Individual Reflection, Critical Friends etc.)
- Induction Processes
- Appropriate & Effective Learning Environments
