By Dorice Swensrude
Professional learning ideally could embrace a partnership with the teacher's individual growth plan and the professional learning opportunities provided by the school, the school jurisdiction and the local PD. My hope is that we will all see our professional learning as a process and not as an event or a one shot PD. Our professional learning road map can encompass many possibilities from twitter, to book studies, action research, committee work to collaborative grade group meetings - an endless list of possibilities!
The purpose of this blog is to have an ongoing discussion about the professional learning needs of our teachers.
There is a big difference between the school's goals supporting the teacher's learning, and the teacher's learning supporting external goals.
ReplyDeleteThere are too many stakeholders and partners for a teacher to endorse whole-sale all of those external goals. At the heart of any good learning is the learner.
If we don't own our own learning, who does? And what are you doing about it?