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What if Professional Development Could Be…Fun!?

Katie Clum March 1, 2022 March 1, 202201 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, active learning, Adult Learning, collaborative learning, Collaborator, EdCamp, faculty professional development, Learning Designer, professional learning, Professional Learning Facilitator

As has been oft-discussed on this blog, as well as among communities of teachers since time immemorial, professional development (PD) activities are quite frequently dull, irrelevant, time-consuming, and centered around a single expert delivering one-size-fits-all content to a group of workshop attendees. This is not an effective approach to adult learning (or any learning, really), …

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Did It Work!? A Brief Look at Professional Development Evaluation in Higher Education & Beyond

Katie Clum February 2, 2022 February 2, 202201 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, Adult Learning, Data-Driven Decision-Maker, faculty professional development, Learning Designer, professional development evaluation, professional learning, Professional Learning Facilitator, technology integration

As I continue to dive deeper into the research related to professional development (PD) and adult learning initiatives within higher education, one aspect of PD I’ve yet to explore is the evaluation of PD. In other words, how do we determine if a PD enterprise was successful? Is the learning having an ongoing, meaningful impact …

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A Model for Professional Learning Assessment

Mun Shing Cheong February 2, 2022 February 2, 202201 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, education, evaluation, Professional Development, professional learning, training

Exploring the distinction between professional development and professional learning and presenting an evaluation model for assessing the impact of professional learning.

Supporting Students in Building Mathematical Confidence

Megan Heineman June 3, 2021 June 3, 202101 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, Collaborator, Instructional Design, Learning Designer, Mathematical Confidence, professional learning, Professional Learning Facilitator, Student Support

As I wrap up my time in the Digital Education Leadership (DEL) Master’s program at Seattle Pacific University, I decided to focus my culminating project on the Tier II math intervention courses in my district. As a former math teacher this is an area that has a special place in my heart and a subject […]

Using Data-Informed Decision Making to Evaluate & Improve Professional Learning

Cory Cummings March 7, 2021 March 7, 202101 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, data-informed, digital learning environments, EDTC 6106, Evaluate, ISTE Coaching Standard 5, Professional Development, professional learning, QUEST Model

For the fourth and final module for EDTC 6106, we are continuing to explore professional learning. The focus of this research is through the lens of the third indicator from ISTE Coaching Standard 5: Professional Learning Facilitator, indicator 5c. As I began thinking about my inquiry question in relation to this indicator, I had several…

A Strong Hex Foundation to Professional Learning

Digital Leader & Educator in Education March 7, 2021 March 7, 202101 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, Adult Learning, coaching, digital learning environments, ISTE Coaching Standard 5, ISTE Coaching Standards, ISTE Standards, learning vision, peer coaching, Professional Development, Professional Development & Programs, Professional Growth & Expertise, professional learning, Teaching & Learning

What are key ideas to designing professional learning that includes a process of ongoing evaluation that emphasizes improvements for using technology for high-impact teaching and learning? Based on ISTE Coaching Standard 5C #1 Consistent purpose …

Continuous Evaluation of Professional Learning

Megan Heineman March 7, 2021 March 7, 202101 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, EDTC6106, evaluation, High-Impact, professional learning, Professional Learning Facilitator

Well, winter quarter is wrapping up and all quarter I have been learning more and more about ISTE Coaching Standard 5: Professional Learning Facilitator. I have spent my last few blog posts sharing about professional learning in general and how … Continue reading →

How to Approach Iterating Ed. Tech Professional Learning

Daskalos Douglas March 6, 2021 March 6, 202101 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, EDTC6106, ISTE, ISTEcoaching5, professional learning

Introduction How do we begin to evaluate professional learning? What are the most desirable aspects? When, how, and why do we utilize technology? What makes certain pedagogical approaches “high-impact” from both the teaching side of things as well as the learning end? How do we ensure that “student learning” remains first and foremost? In the …

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Best Practices for Providing Meaningful Feedback

Cory Cummings February 21, 2021 February 21, 202101 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, digital learning environments, EDTC 6106, feedback, ISTE Coaching Standard 5, Professional Development, professional learning, QUEST Model

Inquiry Question: What are best practices that coaches should apply when providing meaningful feedback to educators during professional learning? For module 3, I am continuing to explore professional learning, and my research focuses on indicator 5b from ISTE Coaching Standard 5: Professional Learning Facilitator. As I researched to understand best practices when providing feedback, I…

Feedback and Professional Learning

Mrs. Batschi February 21, 2021 February 21, 202101 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, feedback, ISTE 5, ISTE for Coaching, professional learning, reflection

Feedback – a word that can bring up a whirlwind of emotions at its mention. It’s in our human nature to want to know how […]

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