Alternative Approaches To Professional Learning - E069

The EduGals Podcast

This week, we are discussing new and innovative approaches to professional learning. During COVID, professional learning has taken quite a backseat. So we'll go over our current struggles we're experiencing as well as possible ideas and solutions to bring back and reimagine what professional learning could look like going forward.
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Struggles:

• TIME! Everything is outside of school hours or during lunch
• Availability of supply teachers is an issue
• Lunches are taken up by so many meetings, other commitments
• Modified semester format is not helping - everyone is exhausted!
• Teaching Loss is real - Tom Schimmer Podcast episode with Pav Wander
• Equity of access to professional learning
• Balance between work and life (our time is valuable)

Ideas/Solutions:

• Use your board staff - coaches, instructional program leaders, itinerant teachers, etc
• Ask for release time from your admin (most schools have $$ for PD)
• Keep learning sessions short, 30 minutes maximum
• Sharing resources online such as community building activities
• Timing of learning sessions - finding a time that works for everyone is tough!
• Record the sessions as an option (be careful with this if you want discussion)
• Record a recap/summary video after the session instead as a workaround
• Rachel's bite-sized learning plan with Katie's input:
  • Create one-pagers with an instructional video, exemplars, practice, extra resources, optional feedback/collaborative database
  • Modern Classrooms Project approach
  • Must Do's - Learn and Explore; Should Do's - Try and Share; and Aspire To Do's - Dive Deeper
  • Lots of choice and entry points for educators
  • Tracking & Collaboration - EdPuzzle open class, Google Form, Interactive Questions in Screencastify
  • Interactive questions in EdPuzzle - audio responses for open-ended responses, keep questions to a minimum
  • Google Form submission - add a teaching resource to our database, get feedback, optional further support
  • Add lots of options for feedback, collaboration, support for teachers
  • Open office hours drop in sessions or Twitter chats (Tweet from @ESL_Fairy)
  • Connect educators with each other (Tweet from Brian Aspinall)
  • Optional Teaching Sprints

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