OCPS Induction & Mentoring
2018 EDITION: Volume 6 March Issue
Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement
As a district, we have utilized the Florida Educator Accomplished Practices to design purposeful professional development opportunities and use data to improve and adjust the effectiveness of our sessions. School-based leadership designs and schedules professional development on your campuses to improve instruction and student supports. What happens when the school year ends? How are we extending the learning beyond the 190 days of the school year? As a professional educator, begin to develop the habit of taking charge of your own continuous improvement. Seek to learn more about instructional strategies, classroom management techniques, and other pertinent resources to truly help you to become a highly effective teacher.
According to Learning Forward, a professional learning association, teachers who routinely develop their own knowledge, and skills model for students that learning is important and useful. The benefits of professional learning extend well beyond the teacher in education. The school and the students benefit greatly from the learning and practice of effective instructional strategies. To read more about these benefits click here.
Professional development to teaching practice is most effective when these new skills are put into action through safe practice and when feedback is given with follow-up. I would be excited to hear next school year how you put your summer learning into action in your classroom. Keep in mind, when educators learn, students learn more!
Coaching as a Means for Continuous Professional Development
- Coached teachers generally practice new strategies more frequently and developed greater skill in the actual moves of a new teaching strategy.
- Coached teachers used their newly learned strategies more appropriately.
- Coached teachers exhibit greater long-term retention of knowledge about and skill with strategies.
- Coached teachers are much more likely to explain new models of teaching to their students, ensuring that students understood the purpose of the strategy and the behaviors expected of them.
- Coached teachers exhibit clearer cognition with regards to the purpose and uses of new strategies.
In order for these benefits to emerge, a relationship of mutual trust and respect MUST be established and maintained. The individual being coached is the most important factor in the success or failure of the coaching relationship. This idea of coaching is not just true of new teachers, but ALL teachers deserve a coach.
Marzano, R. J. & Simms, J. A. (2013). Coaching Classroom Instruction.
March Virtual Session I
Thursday, Mar 7, 2019, 07:30 AM
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March Virtual Session II
Thursday, Mar 7, 2019, 04:30 PM
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Instructional Strategies Spotlight!
Resources
Why Professional Development Matters
Florida Educator Accomplished Practices
Exemplary Practices for Mentoring
STEPHANIE BIVINS MCCORMICK
Email: Stephanie.BivinsMcCormick@ocps.net
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