This document discusses motivating teachers to want professional development. It notes that the best professional development is personalized, classroom-embedded, collaborative, and focused on student needs. Traditional one-size-fits-all models are ineffective. Effective professional development is chosen by teachers based on their interests and classroom evidence. It involves goals, practice, feedback and reflection. Motivating factors include choice, recognition, incentives and making it manageable for teachers' schedules. The goal is ongoing, collaborative learning that improves outcomes for students.

1. Motivating Teachers to Want
Professional Development
Prepared by
Gretchen Sting
TeachersFirst Contributor

2. Motivating Teachers to
WANT Professional
Development
ISTE 2017
Gretchen Sting

3. What was the
best
Professional
Development
you ever
had?

4. Think harder
Keep
thinking…...

5. What did you like about this Professional Development?

6. Why do we Need Professional Development?

7. Reasons for
Professional
Development
1. Teacher Evaluations
2. ESSA
3. District Mandate
4. …..
Am I good enough?
I’m too busy!!!!!!!

8. “Even with the best technology in the world, there
is one key element that determines student
success: a high quality, highly effective teacher.”
E School News,
Teachers Speak: What
PD Actually Works, May
15, 2017

9. Teaching is a PRACTICE which varies with every
student, with every class. You never devise the
manual for the BEST TEACHING PRACTICES- it is
always evolving and changing.

10. Education is
moving from
Teaching to
Learning

11. Not What am I going to
teach?
BUT
What should my students be
able to do with what they
learn?

12. What is your Definition of Professional
Development?

13. Have you asked? Listen, Listen, Listen!

14. Traditional
Types of
Professional
Development
1. One size fits all
2. Sit and “git”
3. Drive by
4. Spray and Pray
Not classroom connected
Who said I need this?
I’m throwing that away
I don’t care!

15. Data Digs

16. What do we know
about teaching
Students?
Different
Strengths and
weaknesses
Backgrounds
Likes and dislikes
Background knowledge
Different Learning
Styles

17. Students need
Models
Examples
Scaffolding
Formative Assessment
Feedback
Collaboration
Reflection

18. Why
Professional
Development?
Make it matter
Area of interest
Classroom Embedded

19. Goals, Objectives,
Practice, Feedback,
Reflection

20. How do you
know what the
teacher needs?
PERSONALIZE
Self selected
Chosen together
I WANT to learn
Based on what evidence
NO JUDGMENT

21. Setting
Embed in classroom
When?

22. Feedback
Without evaluation
Support
Now what?

23. Collaboration?
With who?
Where?
When?

24. Reflection
Together
How can you grow?

25. Let the Learning
Path Be Dynamic

26. Interactive
Learning
1. Individual Mastery
2. Social Engagement
3. Personalized Learning
4. Learner Profiles
5. Flexible Environments

27. Elements of
Personalized
Learning
1. Know Yourself
2. Follow your own Path
3. Be free
4. Raise the bar
5. Change the world
Santa Ana school District, Epic Learning

28. Goals of
Professional
Development
1. Embedded into your classroom
2. Targets student needs
3. Meaningful for me
4. Necessary
5. Right on Time
MANAGEABLE

29. Methods of
Professional
Development
1. Learning teams
2. Micro-credentials
3. Mentoring for new
teachers
4. Be a mentor
5. Book study
6. Subject study
7. MOOCC
8. University online

30. Choice of Evidence Challenge learners to present evidence
Share examples and models

31. Motivation
Choice
Desire
Support without evaluation
Schedule
Needed
Wanted

32. Teamwork

33. Even more
motivation
Issuer- recognizes importance
Badging
Recognition
Student example
Shared success

34. Still More
Motivation
Bank time for inservice days
Stipend
Creative class coverage
Incentives: Lunch, jeans, flip
flops, admin coverage
WHAT MATTERS TO
YOU?

35. TIME
Be flexible
TIME
TIME
TIME

36. Learning
Community
Expectation
of students
Role models
Feature in
Parent
Community

37. Go Beyond
Collaboration
Personalized
Small bites
Right in time
Ongoing
FEEDBACK and Support

38. Definition of Professional
Development
Time for collaboration
Research- youtube count?
Lesson plans
Creating assessments
What time counts?

39. Types of Courses
1. Online:
100%, communication, no meetings
1. Web-enhanced:
face to face, online tools supplement, class
1. Hybrid:
Face to face 50-70% online or out of class
work, LMS communication, class meetings

40. Blended
Learning Toolkit

41. Examples
Laguna Beach
Rocket Ready
Digital Promise
Learning Forward

42. 30 Day PD Challenge: Dr. Bruce Ellis
http://bit.ly/2rW5sXC

43. Digital Diaries

44. Keep Teachers
Engaged and
Learning
1. Personalize
2. Teamwork
3. Community
4. Fun- add gamification
5. Goals
6. Manageable
7. Improves student

45. Learning
Collections

46. Collect Learning
and Resources
Create modules with resources
and materials
Collect teacher artifacts,
learning journeys
Use as learning examples

47. Pass it Along!
Share new learning!
Teacher Learning Days
Teacher Badges
Teacher Leaders
District conferences
Keep going!

48. What Kinds
of
Professional
Development
do your
teachers
want?