Principle 5: Professional Preparation and Development

PRINCIPLE STATEMENT:

Comprehensive and continuous professional development that impacts teaching and learning is delivered to enhance the recruitment, preparation and retention of qualified instructional and administrative staff.

PRINCIPLE DESIGN ELEMENTS:

1. Professional development activities are coordinated, when possible, with teacher certification or licensing, in-service and pre-service learning, other related professional development activities, or current local reform initiatives/school improvement plans.
2. Professional development activities are high-quality, sustained, intensive, comprehensive, and instruction-focused in order to have an impact on classroom instruction.
3. Professional development is designed to help all partners and stakeholders improve the quality of instruction in order to impact student achievement and meet the state annual adjusted level of performance (AALP).
4. Local leaders conduct needs assessments prior to designing professional development and involve stakeholders and partners in collaborative planning.
5. Professional development combines, when possible, resources with other regions and organizations to maximize resources.
6. Professional development includes, when possible, the sharing of best or promising practices based on scientifically-based research and data that demonstrate program effectiveness.
7. Professional development includes opportunities for secondary and postsecondary educators to collaborate to encourage curriculum alignment and integration.

 
PRINCIPLE RESOURCES:
Promising Practice in Professional Development Checklist

Harwell, S.H. (2003). Teacher professional development: It’s not an event, it’s a process. Waco, TX: CORD.

Loucks-Horsley, S., Love, N., Stiles, K. E., Mundry, S. E., & Hewson, P. W. (2003). Designing professional development for teachers of science and mathematics (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

Ragan, V. & Liston, C. (2008). Comprehensive professional development: A review of the literature. Normal, IL: Illinois Center for Specialized Professional Support.

 
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