Shall we ask the ‘experts’?
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New material: If teachers feel like they’re being taught something they’ve already implemented in the classroom, they’re going to lose interest in the professional development very quickly.
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Engaging Activities: Sitting and listening to someone speak is not how educators were taught to teach. So why should they have to do that when learning new concepts and/or ideas during an inservice? Educators should be actively involved in their learning, just as lessons are planned for students to be actively involved in theirs!
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Practice Time: When learning about something new, it’s only fair to get time to practice, engross yourself or discuss how it can be implemented in the classroom right away. The less time there is to do this during the development, the better the likelihood that the educator won’t do it at all. This can be done either through homework to be brought back the following meeting or right there in the development where qeustions can be asked of the leader.
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Activities: If there are no activities to take part it, and it’s only a discussion of test scores/goals, the educators will wonder why they couldn’t have just received an email of the information, instead of wasting their own time coming out to hear about it.
View for yourself!
