Bob Ryshke's presentation at the Martin Institute's conference, Teaching for Tomorrow. The workshop is on professional development, what teachers need to know.

1. The Changing Landscape of
Professional Development
Robert Ryshke

2. Information
• Robert Ryshke
• Center for Teaching
http://www.westminster.net/center-for-teaching
• http:rryshke.wordpress.com (blog)
• @centerteach (Twitter)
• Conference hastag is #micon12

3. What I hope to achieve!
• Describe Center for
Teaching’s work.
• Share standards & models
for professional
development.
• Engage in conversation
and reflection about
effective professional
development.

4. Innovative
Respond to
needs of all
learners.
Technology
aiding in PD
delivery.

5. What are criteria for effective
professional development?

6. Guskey, 2003
• Studied 13 lists of criteria for effective PD
• 21 characteristics identified
• enhancement of teachers’ content
knowledge & expertise was most
frequently cited.
• “time” was frequently cited

7. Guskey, 2003
• Using analyses of student learning data
to guide professional development was
RARELY cited as an important criteria.

8. Guskey Concludes
There is little
agreement on criteria
for effective
professional
development

9. Guskey concludes
Most criteria are too
complicated and lack
a foundation in
strong research

10. Guskey concludes
Teacher effectiveness
within schools varies.
It seems to be tied to
their commitment to
professional growth.

11. Standards for
professional learning

12. Survey: Thoughts on PD
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13. Types of Professional Development

14. Types of Professional Development

15. Advantages of Online Learning
• Any time, anywhere
• Real time and ongoing
• Access experts
• Spans great distances
• Increase learning options
• Community of learners

16. Online Learning

17. Professional Networks

18. School-based Professional Development
• Professional learning
communities
• Teachers doing
action research
• Curriculum
development projects
• Teacher-led
workshops

19. Action Research Project
Video

20. What do we really know about the relationship between
professional development and improvements in student learning?

21. Yoon, 2007
• 9 of 1,343 studies met standards of
What Works Clearinghouse
★ Workshop & summer institutes
★ Outside expert
★ Time-30 + hrs shows positive
correlation
★ Follow-up
★ Activities
★ Content

22. Implications of Yoon
• Assess & evaluate
effectiveness
• Demand evidence new
strategies & practices work
• Begin small-scale,
controlled, pilot the work
• Pursue greater rigor in
study of PD’s effectiveness

23. Yoon & Guskey, 2009
Effective professional development
requires considerable time, and that time
must be well organized, carefully
structured, purposefully directed and
focused on content or pedagogy or both.

24. Needs Assessment

25. Center for Teaching

26. Center for Teaching

27. Center for Teaching

28. Center for Teaching

29. Center’s Cohort Program
FACULTY COHORT PROGRAM PAT BASSETT 21ST CENTURY PD
✦ collaborate on action research projects ✦collaborative
✦ meet twice monthly for the school year ✦ongoing
✦ exchange information on school issues ✦site specific to address local issues
✦ discuss current educational topics ✦focused on deepening a teacher’s
✦ interact with educational experts content knowledge
✦ share their professional development ✦reflective of educational research
experiences, learning new strategies ✦provide time, support, and resources to
from peers. enable teachers to master new content
and pedagogy, and integrate this
knowledge and skills into their
practice.

30. Where are we headed?

31. Concluding Thoughts

32. Planning
✤ Big picture
✤ Tie PD to strategic plan
✤ Use adult learning theory
✤ Research best practices in PD
✤ Make the case for PD
✤ Use data to select PD
✤ Decide on PD outcomes

33. Implementation
✤ Differentiate PD
✤ Provide ongoing support after
PD
✤ Model practices you expect
from PD
✤Gather feedback on
implementation of PD
✤ Keeping the fires burning

34. Evaluation
✤ Determine fidelity of
implementation
✤ Collect data about
effort and effect
✤ Analyze and share data
✤ Evaluate best PD
opportunities for faculty
that improves student
learning

35. Exit Ticket