1. Professional Development
Refining Our Vision for Effective Teaching: Closing the Implementation Gap with Ongoing, Job-Embedded Learning

2. Achieving Horry County Schools’ Vision
School Data Teams
Curriculum Mapping
Classroom Walkthroughs
Professional Development

3. Objectives Participants will explore:
National Staff Development Council’s Standards for Staff Development
If Not a Workshop, Then What?
HCS School Professional Development Plan
Professional Development Self Assessment

4. What is Professional Development?
Jot down what professional development means to you.
Share your idea with your table group.

5. What is Professional Development? (cont’d.)
“Professional Development is the development and exchange of professional ideas, values, beliefs, practices, and strategies designed to improve student achievement.”
-Joellen Killion, Deputy Executive Director
National Staff Development Council

6. National Staff Development Council has asked:
What are all students expected to know and be able to do?
What must teachers know and do in order to ensure student success?
Where must staff development focus to meet both goals?

7. This focus has provided a set of Twelve, Research-Based Standards for Professional Development.

8. Learning Communities Leadership Resources
CONTEXT STANDARDS: How is the organization structured to support adult learning?
Learning Communities
Leadership
Resources

9. Equity Quality Teaching Family Involvement
CONTENT STANDARDS: What knowledge and skills must educators learn to produce higher levels of learning for all students?
Equity
Quality Teaching
Family Involvement

10. Data-Driven Evaluation Research-Based
PROCESS STANDARDS How is learning structured to support adult acquisition of new knowledge and skills?
Data-Driven
Evaluation
Research-Based

11. Design Learning Collaboration
PROCESS STANDARDS (cont’d.) How is learning structured to support adult acquisition of new knowledge and skills?
Design
Learning
Collaboration

12. Exploring the NSDC Standards
Focus on one of the three categories of NSDC Standards
Develop a group definition
Create a graphic organizer to represent your category and the standards that relate

13. Exploring the Standards, the Next Step
All groups will be asked to share their graphic organizers as they relate to their category of Staff Development Standards.

15. If Not a Workshop, Then What?

16. School Professional Development Plans
Moving Data into Action

17. Due to Janet Todd by September 7
School PD Plan
Due to Janet Todd by September 7

18. Where Does My School Stand When it Comes to Professional Development?
Self-Assessment of Your School’s Professional Development

19. Schools, I believe, possess latent and
often unrecognized potential for improved performance. Professional learning designed to release this potential would recognize and tap the talents and strengths that already reside in the school community rather than produce dependence on outside expertise, an unintended but not uncommon byproduct of traditional forms of staff development. Such professional learning would also develop and refine, through intellectually rigorous, team-based activities, the otherwise unarticulated forms of “craft knowledge,” wisdom, and professional judgment that are essential to successful teaching and school leadership.
-Dennis Sparks
NSDC Executive Director