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NAEPDC PD Policy Update 4-6-05
NAEPDC
News, Views, and Clues
April 6, 2005
Professional Development Policy Resource
In your new state plan, what policies will you put into place that encourage and enable teachers to participate in professional development and improve their practice?
Our colleagues, the Association of Adult Literacy Professional Developers (AALPD), will be leading discussions to review the research and offer options.
A little over a year ago, NCSALL published their research findings on professional development in two reports (see references below).
This week and next (April 5 – 18th) AALPD will be using the NIFL-AALPD discussion list to explore how these research findings and implications could translate into policy.
During the AALPD Pre-Conference at COABE, participants will synthesize these discussions and produce policy options for state directors and other policy makers.
These policy options will be very helpful to you in developing your own state policies to support teacher development. To ensure that these policies represent the voice of the field, particularly your instructors’ and your state’s needs:
Please encourage your professional development staff and contractors, program directors, and instructors to participate in this discussion on the NIFL-AALPD discussion list.
To subscribe, visit:
http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/discussions/nifl-aalpd/subscribe_aalpd.html
You and your staff members are welcome to subscribe to participate and/or to stay abreast of the conversations. Or, you can visit the archives (updated weekly) at your leisure.
To view the archives, visit: http://www.nifl.gov/nifl-aalpd/2005/
We will send you a copy of their final product as soon as it is available.
NCSALL Research Briefs from the Professional Development Study:
The Characteristics and Concerns of Adult Basic Education Teachers
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~ncsall/research/brief26.pdf
How Teachers Change: A Study of Professional Development in Adult Education
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~ncsall/research/brief25.pdf
To obtain the full reports, visit: http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~ncsall/index.html and click on “Publications.”
To learn more about AALPD: http://www.aalpd.org/
Keep up the good work. Let me know when we can help.
NAEPDC
A Natural Resource For Adult Education State Directors and their Staff Members
Dr. Lennox L. McLendon, Executive Director
lmclendon_at_naepdc.org
www.naepdc.org
202.624.5250
202.624.1497 FAX
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