Due to a
specific incident this week that happened within a grade level Pd meeting. I wanted to pick an article regarding
professional development. The article,
“Policies that Support Professional Development in an Era of Reform,” says it
may guide those who are struggling with this issue.
The
article states that teachers via the educational reform are being required to
rethink practices, construct new classroom roles and teach in ways they’ve
never taught before… “Yet few occasions and little support for such
professional development exist in teacher’s environments.”
Using
more reflecting on practices to gain knowledge and beliefs about content, pedagogy
and learners is essential in the reform getting away from the in-service of the
past where information was just handed down for the top-down and teachers were
expected to “learn it, and do it.”
Resources
Darling-Hammond, L.; McLaughlin, M. W.Policies That Support Professional Development in an Era of Reform, Phi Delta Kappan, April 1995
DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, R., & Many, T. (2010). Learning
by doing: A handbook for professional learning communities at work. (Second
Edition ed., pp. 59-153). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
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