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Participate.com: Your toolbelt for professional learning

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The many, many years of formal professional development I’ve attended over many, many years in K12 education in no way equals the professional development opportunities I found for myself in the last few years across my online communities of practice and through open structure conferences that offered me choices and flexibility.

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How To Value Individual Staff Profesional Development Through Incentive Programs

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This post was originally created and posted on the website TeacherCast Educational Network. Change is the end result of all true learning. – Step 1: Define What Professional Development Truly Is. The first step in incentivizing professional learning is to define exactly what professional development is.

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8 Things to Look for in Today’s Professional Learning (Part 2)

The Principal of Change

(This is the second of two parts on professional learning. Connected Learning. To be successful in helping people develop professional learning networks is to narrow the focus on the tools that are being shared with staff. You can read the first part here. Idea: The idea for this is simple.

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How To Value Individual Staff Profesional Development Through Incentive Programs

TeacherCast

She said to me something that was remarkable but at the same time, it was a simple concept that should be adopted by any school district wishing to put a value on the professional well-being of their staff members. What is professional development? Here is an example of this school district’s planning document.

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8 Things to Look for in Today’s Professional Learning (Part 1)

The Principal of Change

As someone who is a big believer in creating experiences for educators where they partake in the types of learning that should happen in the classroom, I thought this suggestion made total sense. To be honest with you, professional learning in many cases needs an overhaul. ” Click To Tweet. .

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Effective Digital Leadership: Moving Our Schools Forward

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Must have an education email account to set up an account. Professional Growth Don uses Twitter for a professional learning network. He is constantly in conversation with people about what is going on in his job, growing with them and learning from them. Royse City is hosting EdCamp Awesome in Feburary 2014.

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THANK YOU for 5 Amazing Years of Educational Podcasting! Thank You For Amazing Feedback!

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Jeffrey Bradbury is clearly an innovator and a mover and shaker in the educational technology world. Great information June 12, 2015 by jjbs21 from United States Great podcast with a lot of valuable tips for educators! If you want to grow as a learner and an educator, you should be plugged into Teachercast.net's channels.

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