Providing Focused and Sustained Professional Development
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.
This course is part of a suite of Leadership courses; it may be taken as a stand-alone course or be combined with one or more from the suite to obtain either a Bronze, Silver or Gold level Leadership Award (please see the Leadership Suite page for more details).
Who would benefit
Heads of Faculty, School or Department, Principals, Directors, Curriculum Directors and Coordinators or anyone with a
whole school responsibility who may need to train others.
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
Course Duration
3 training days spread across 2 – 3 months.
In-school mentoring and activities take place in the intervening period.
Note: This is not a Train the Trainer course.