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Best Practices in Professional Development: Five Essential Phases for Educators

This module delves into effective professional development strategies for educators, focusing on five key phases: building a knowledge base, observing models, reflecting on practice, enacting change, and sharing expertise. Key lessons learned emphasize the importance of joint activities, curriculum integration, partnership with businesses, linking learning to systemic reform, and following up with incentives. Engaging opportunities such as internships, job shadowing, and summer institutes are highlighted as proven types of professional development that enrich teaching practices and foster collaboration among educators.

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Best Practices in Professional Development: Five Essential Phases for Educators

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  1. Tech Prep Foundation Professional Development Module 13: Models & Best Practices

  2. Five Phases of Professional Development • Building a Knowledge Base • Observing Models and Examples • Reflecting on Your Practice • Changing Your Practice • Gaining and Sharing Expertise

  3. Professional DevelopmentLessons Learned... • Provide joint activities • Focus on curriculum integration • Involve business partners • Link learning to systemic reform • Reward application, successes • Take teachers into workplaces • FOLLOW UP!

  4. Incentives to encourage change… Professional Development Credit/University Credit Stipends Recognition Materials and Resources All rabbits love carrots…

  5. Another perspective

  6. One-time workshops Vocational/Academic Instructor Practicum Internships Job shadowing/ site visits Conferences Summer institutes and academies Classes- face to face or distance/on-line Study groups Proven Types of Professional Development

  7. One-Time Workshops • Diverse types • Useful for audiences needing only general knowledge of a topic • Of limited effectiveness for those who need to apply knowledge.

  8. Teachers/ instructors, counselors and administrators (7th-14th) When school is not in session VIP/AIP application Private or public sector site current generation equipment, training materials, and processes; Comprehensive overview of the business; Interact with employees about their work. Vocational/Academic Instructor Practicum (VIP/AIP)

  9. Learner serves as an employee of the firm or worksite Both employer’s and learner’s goals should be met. Advantage: realism Disadvantage: time intensive EXAMPLES: Muscatine Manufacturing Worksite Teacher Internships (Muscatine, Iowa) Business Education Compact (Beaverton, Oregon) Internships

  10. Provide opportunities to observe current industry practices Encourage the formation of relationships Advantage: short time frame; direct exposure Disadvantage: limited involvement EXAMPLE: Construction Industry Educator Job Shadow (Peoria, Illinois) Job Shadowing & Site Visits

  11. Provide intensive exposure to a series of related topics Usually allow learners to select most valuable learning experiences Advantage: accepted and enjoyed Disadvantage: cost and lack of follow-up EXAMPLES: Illinois’ Connections Conference National Tech Prep Network Conferences

  12. Provide an intensive, fairly focused learning experience. Opportunity for interaction with other groups. Often mixes classroom and experiential learning. EXAMPLES: Cumberland County College ETC/Tech Prep Summer Educator Academy Summer Institutes and Academies

  13. Traditional way of teaching Detailed information On-line options are expanding the range of learning opportunities EXAMPLES: Support for Faculty, Students, and the Classroom On-line courses on Tech Prep Classes- face-to-face or distance

  14. Professionals often learn well from each other; shared desire for improvement is important motivator Advantages: addresses felt need; builds motivation Disadvantages: dependent on good leadership EXAMPLES: Classroom Application from Industry- DACC Central Texas Consortium Study Group Study Groups

  15. Hints about planning • Involve the audience. • Base concepts on solid research • Address potential obstacles to application of concepts. • Consider ways to build learning communities.

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