Lesson Plan

The Goals in Effective Professional Development
1. Professional development enriches teaching and improves learning for all students. It is an essential link to higher student achievement.
2. Professional development supports systematic chance.
3. Professional development addresses goals for school teacher’s administrators, students, parents, related to reform efforts.
4. Professional development supports teacher’s development both as individuals and as an educator.
5. Professional development is considered a central part of teaching is vital as classroom instruction.
6. Professional development is considered an ongoing process and is conducted in a long term sustained manner.
7. Professional development supports current belief about teaching and learning. Community members, business people, policy makers, and the public large can do the following thins to improve professional development.
8. The entire school community is committed to continued growth and development of teachers in order to improve teaching and learning for all students.
9. The entire school community is supportive of calendar and schedule and changes to accommodate professional development activities
10. The entire school community is committed to making change to improve education.
The Teachers and Administrators can work together and do the following things to improve professional development:
1. Teachers and administrators are effective learning models and frameworks for designing professional development and personal growth experiences.
2. Teachers and administrators create a school culture in which teachers feel free to critically assess their own practice.
3. Teachers and administrators examine and discuss current attitudes toward professional development.
4. Teachers and administrators create a school improvement teams that design activities to create learning organizations.
5. Teachers and administrators examine the goals of the current school improvement plan and adapt them to meet current needs.
Administrators can do the following things to improve professional development:
1. Administrators create public support for long term sustained professional development.
2. Administrators advocate for local policies and programs that reflect current consensus on professional development. Teachers can do the following things to improve the learning process through professional development;
3. Teachers have opportunities to develop new understanding of the subjects they teach and the roles they play in the school, the classroom, and the larger learning community.
4. Teachers demonstrate personal standards of excellence so that students are learning from the least.
5. Teachers have the time and mental space to become involved in the process of changing roles and improving practice.
6. Teachers have the time and mental space to become involved in the process of changing roles and improving practice.
7. Teachers participate in a meaningful variety of professional development and personal growth activities.
Different Points of View According to study conducted by the coalition of Essential School by Munsey Macmillan, all teachers may not be interested in professional development. If teachers feel burdened by their regular classroom preparations, they may believe they cannot spend additional time on personal growth.

If prior professional development has been a dissatisfying experience, teachers nay have kittle confidence in its impact and on each relevance to their classroom practice. Some teachers especially as they approach retirement may lose interest in professional growth. Fine quotes a typical teachers attitude: “I have only four or five years before I retire I’m not going to take an active role. I go with flow and roll with the punches. Some teachers want professional development to be completed before the school year begins so that new teaching approaches can be applied immediately as the children return to school.