PD Standards Questions

The following questions were discussed in the PD Quality Standards Discussion:

How well does this draft measure up with what subscribers have indicated is quality professional development?
What is the value added in having PD standards?
What are the drawbacks?
PD Providers: Are standards really going to help you provide better PD?
Practitioners: Are standards really going to help you identify quality PD?
- What are the most important PD standards or indicators from your perspective?
- What are the most important standards to advance PD in your area/state?
- What PD Standards would be easy to implement?
- What would be hard to implement?
- Is there anything missing?
- Is there anything that isn't clear?
- What would need to be in place in order to make these standards possible?
- Should all standards apply to all activities?
- Are the proposed standards (below) too general? Which ones? All of them?
- Are they too specific, too prescriptive? Which ones?
- The question of whether or not to have professional development standards is still open. Are there good reasons not to have them? Are there good reasons to have them?
- Do you think some or all of the proposed standards would advance the field, help to improve teaching and learning? If so, which standards would advance the field?
- Does this document work for us in adult education professional development?

How are standards used in various states to select the professional development that’s provided? In order to be considered quality, must the PD offering meet all standards, for example?
What must we do to validate and professionalize adult literacy and provide teachers of it comparable professional opportunities, including salary and benefits, time off for professional deevlopment, etc.?
To colleagues who are involved in planning statewide professional development: How do you see yourself using the adult education professional development standards to plan, implement and evaluate your professional development?
What is "universal design?"
And exactly which evidence-based teaching practices will we, as staff developers, be expected to pass on to teachers?
What is the difference between having PD Quality Standards versus guiding principles for professional development? If both are based in research, what may be the advantages of having one over the other?

To read the full discussion, visit: PD Quality Standards