Commenting on PD Quality Standards
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Tom Jones
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Subject: [ProfessionalDevelopment 2147] Re: PD Quality Standards - Feedback Requested by May 30th From: Katrina Hinson khinson at almanid.com Date: Sun May 25 13:18:01 EDT 2008
Everything looks good.
I have one comment though - regarding item 11: the second column where it states:
(a) Staff are supported by:
- i. paid professional development time
- ii. paid substitutes to allow for participation
- iii. paid planning time for instruction
(b) Regular staff meetings are held to enable practitioners to share in decision making for their program (c) Time is provided for practitioners to develop a professional development plan, access professional development that supports the plan, and receive supportive monitoring by supervisors
This assumes that all programs have adequate funding to meet this need and that's just not the case. Some programs simply don't have funding to accommodate paid planning time and some do. For very small, rural programs where funding is a real issue, what options might exist for them to meet this need without negatively impacting their funding amounts. We want to encourage PD but not at the expense of the program itself in that program services get cut or shrunk.
Regards,
Katrina Hinson
