Job-embedded professional development provides opportunities for high-quality adult learning that ultimately leads to shared understanding, enhanced practice, student achievement, and a supportive culture of continuous growth for all. Successful implementation, however, requires a systematic approach to the details, as well as a clear understanding of the purpose, norms, and participant roles and responsibilities relevant to these structures. Come and explore ways we have designed and implemented job-embedded professional learning as a sustained component of a continuous improvement process--and how you can use these strategies and tools with your team, building, or district.
Learning Targets:
Learning Targets:
- I can explain the role of job-embedded professional learning as a key component of a continuous improvement process.
- I can articulate the benefits, conditions, and components of various effective job-embedded professional learning designs.
- I can draft a professional learning plan for my team, building, or district that aligns with Standards for Professional Learning and our student learning goals.