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By Matt BalasBy Matt Balas

NDSC WebsiteTEXTProcess or providing ongoing opportunities to improve knowledge and skills of employees

Comprehensive, substantiated, and intensive approach to improve employee effectiveness

Increasing Student Achievement

Context

ContextLearning Communities-Staff development that improves the learning of all students and organizes adults into learning communities whose goals are aligned with those of the school and district

ContextLeadership-Staff development that improves the learning of all students and requires skillful school and district leaders who guide continuous instructional improvement

Leaders will:

• Articulate the critical link between improved student learning and the professional learning of teachers

• Ensure that all stakeholders - including the school board, parent teacher organizations, and the business community - understand the link and develop the knowledge necessary to serve as advocates for high quality professional development for all staff

• Establish policies and organizational structures that support ongoing professional learning and continuous improvement

ContextResources-Staff development that improves the learning of all students and requires resources to support adult learning and collaboration

Process

ProcessData-driven-Staff development that improves the learning of all students and uses disaggregated student data to determine adult learning priorities, monitor progress, and help sustain continuous improvement

ProcessEvaluation-Staff development that improves the learning of all students and uses multiple sources of information to guide improvement and demonstrate its impact

Well-designed staff development evaluation can address teacher skepticism by serving two broad purposes:

• improving the quality of current staff development efforts• determining the effects of staff development in terms of

its intended outcomes.

ProcessResearch-based-Staff development that improves the learning of all students and prepares educators to apply research to decision making

Process

Design-Staff development that improves the learning of all students and uses learning strategies appropriate to the intended goal

Successful staff development require that planners select:

1. Learning strategies that are appropriate to the intended

outcome and other situational factors 2. Based on the intended outcomes and their diagnosis of

participants' prior knowledge and experience

ProcessLearning-Staff development that improves the learning of all students and applies knowledge about human learning and change

Process

Collaboration-Staff development that improves the learning of all students and provides educators with the knowledge and skills to collaborate

Organize…Organize…Organize

“Organized groups provide the social interaction that often deepens learning and the interpersonal support and synergy necessary for creatively solving the complex problems of teaching and learning.”

Content

ContentEquity-

1. Staff development that improves the learning of all students

2. Prepares educators to understand and appreciate all students

3. Creates safe, orderly, and supportive learning environments

4. Holds high expectations for their academic achievement

ContentQuality Teaching-• Staff development that improves the learning of all students • Deepens educators' content knowledge, provides them with

research-based instructional strategies • Assists students in meeting rigorous academic standards

• Prepares students to use various types of classroom

assessments appropriately

ContentFamily Involvement-Staff development that improves the learning of all students and provides educators with knowledge and skills to involve

families and other stakeholders appropriately

Bibliography

National Staff Development Council

http://www.nsdc.org/standards/family.cfm