The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA), representing all 50 states and DC, today released the “Empowering Teachers: A Professional and Collaborative Approach” report.
“Professional development approaches and policies must shift from one-time, stand alone workshops to sustainable, on-going learning opportunities for teachers and administrators,” said Mary Ann Wolf, SETDA’s Executive Director. [...]
The key recommendations of the report include:
1. Make Sustainable Professional Development Available to All Teachers.
2. Provide New Teachers with Integrated Pedagogy.
3. Ensure Administrators Have Access to Training and Support.
4. Conduct Research Investigating the Efficacy of Comprehensive Professional Development Models.
Read a summary of the report here.
A wiser man than me told me recently, in talking about ed tech, that we can easily forget that there is a vital chain: 1. The technology, 2. The content, and 3. The professional development. You need all three for things to work. Someone else was just telling me about a district with many interactive whiteboards sitting in boxes. Even after a successful funding initiative, teachers just didn't know what to do with them. And this report certainly seems to reinforce the idea of that chain. Who knew Fleetwood Mac was so forward thinking about education technology? "Chain... keeps us together." So true, so true.
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