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The Association of Adult Literacy Professional Developers, a network of professional developers across the country, is engaged in an on-going process of developing a platform of policies related to professional development. This platform would constitute a vision for professional development for which the whole field can advocate. AALPD invites discussion of this platform, in an effort to draft policies that represent the field's view. Please join the discussion by subscribing to NIFL-AALPD. To subscribe, visit:
http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/discussions/nifl-aalpd/subscribe_aalpd.html
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Subject: [NIFL-AALPD:1985] Professional Development Plan
From: jataylor_at_utk.edu
Hello Marie, All,
Thanks, Marie, for sharing these posts from the assessment list regarding how staff evaluation and staff development can be effectively integrated. I think this example (and I'm sure there are others) provides a good segue in thinking about how policies could support what we envision for staff development.
What would be the benefits of having policies in states like the ones below? What might be some of the challenges? Would you support such policies? What do you recommend we add or change?
- Professional Development Plan
Each program should be funded at 1% of its annual staff hours to conduct a process for teachers to develop an annual professional development plan that dovetails with the program's improvement process (which starts from students' needs for improvements in instruction and services).
- Relevance of Professional Development Activities
Every state literacy resource center or professional development system/agency and every program must use the professional development plans of the practitioners in their state or program to plan professional development activities relevant to teachers' and (ultimately) students' needs.
Please provide feedback on these draft policies by either posting to the list or emailing me direct (jataylor@utk.edu).
Thanks!
Jackie Taylor
List Facilitator, NIFL-AALPD, jataylor@utk.edu
Visit: http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/PDandPolicies
Here is the second email.
marie
From: nifl-assessment@nifl.gov [nifl-assessment@nifl.gov]
On Behalf Of Maureen OBrien
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 10:31 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [NIFL-ASSESSMENT:999] Re: Teacher assessment
Marie, thank you for responding to my email.
What follows is the content of our NDEC Peer Evaluation Form.
- 1. Agree on two to three performance goals with activities for this year. These should include the major elements of your job description, taking into account NDEC agency goals and priorities, your department goals, and your own personal professional goals.(For each goal, three specific activities are determinded.)
- 2. Write your staff development goal(s) for this year:
- Goal: What do you want to learn?
- How: How will you learn it?
- NDEC workshop: Do you want us to organize a teacher sharing session or in-house staff development workshop on this topic?
- 3. (To be completed at end of school year) Peer review of job performance: review progress on previously established goals and activities. For each goal and its activities address the following questions as appropriate: Did your partner achieve the goals as established? Was the activity successful? Why wasn't the goal reached? Why wasn't the activity successful? What were major accomplishments?
As for challenges, looking upon the process as 'routine' may be the biggest challenge. i.e. another form to be passed in. Some strengths of using a process like this is that staff development and staff evaluation are effectively linked.
I look forward to hearing from you again,
Maureen O'Brien
NDEC Boston
