Lecture

death of education, birth of learning
teach students how to learn
push to hold teachers accountable to standards
teachers also responsible to meet standards (license renewal)

professional development=key to student achievement

• staying up to date
• collaboration, getting involved
• effective strategies
• In terms of the law (protecting students, i.e. allergies)

new PD:

• Innovative instructional strategies
• research on learning
• technology
• professional collaboration with other teachers

formal- college credit, documentable (online classes, journals, magazines) teacher trips, professional organizations such as Kappa Delta Pi, NAEA, Phi Delta Kappa

informal- information for solving problems in classroom

PD makes me more profitable- electronic portfolio


Side notes

Public school students and government created