Course Details

There are many different types of professional development experiences, but most have exposure to just a few. Most define professional development as traditional training workshops, though many other strategies should be part of the professional development system. A top-notch school-wide professional development plan is created by a collaborative team effort. It is realistic, school-wide, clear, detailed and tied to the school’s aims and student achievement goals.

This course will provide delegates with the tools to design a varied, contextualized continuing professional development program that will have the greatest impact on student achievement in their school.

Participants will:

• Examine traditional professional development experiences and why these are often unsuccessful
• Discover a variety of alternatives to traditional professional development
• Take part in an active solutions-focused exercise designed to demonstrate the use of sustainable, experiential learning
• Devise a model professional development program based on specific  needs
• Undertake an in-school project which implements some of the alternative techniques for delivering continuing professional development