Professional Learning Delivery

professional learning for teachers

Whether individual, faculty or school-wide needs, properly planned, negotiated and effectively delivered professional learning can have a significant impact on student, teacher and school outcomes. Often, professional learning was viewed as a response to individual teaching needs rather than with the goal of directly improving educational outcomes for a school in its broadest form. Indeed, the term “professional development” may be viewed as a term that is anachronistic for the 21st Century as it does not address what is essentially on-going and continuous workplace transformation and improvement.

The results of a well-planned learning schedule, implemented at the right time and in a manner that energizes and supports change is measurable in both quantitative and qualitative terms:

• Assisting, reflecting and challenging workplace learning
• Learning through Practice and Play
• Developing Effective Professional Learning Styles
• Structured, flexible and negotiated
• Facilitating informed decision-making
• Authentic, interwoven, articulated and practical
• Well-supported and evaluated

Styles of Learning Delivery

• Workshops
• Breakaway Groups
• Seminars
• Full-day programs
• Mentoring Meetings
• Resourcing
• On-line, Flexible and Self-paced

Active Outcomes

•     Building professional learning teams
•     Supporting action research
•     Examining student work
•     Developing communities of practice
•     Facilitating case discussion
•     Learning-by-doing
•     Bringing positive change through reflection
•     Assessment for Learning