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What Makes Professional Development Work?

edWeb.net

When given agency, teachers understand the what, why, and how so they can genuinely embrace what they are learning and put those skills to use in their classroom instruction. The challenge, for school and district leaders, is recognizing that this model is professional development and not professional learning.

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Can “playful assessments” tell us whether maker education works?

The Hechinger Report

But what else was she learning in this maker space? With scarcely a month left in the school year, why was it worth spending time making videos rather than covering the next academic standard? If you ignore content, then the assessment is never going get used in the classroom,” said Kim.