Promoting a culture of continuing professional development

 5th August - Teachers' Professional Development Day.

Dear PD Coordinators'
 I am sure all of  you would be busy now planning for the 3rd PD day, hope the following link would be useful...


Effective continuing professional development (CPD) should be an integral part of your school’s culture. Embedding CPD policy and processes into wider school processes will ensure your school development.

Your role is to promote a culture that celebrates staff learning, and encourages colleagues to share their learning with others. In a successful learning community people learn both with, and from, each other. Ensuring the positive impact of professional learning is celebrated and shared will support positive changes in the CPD culture and practice in your school.

http://www.tda.gov.uk/teachers/continuingprofessionaldevelopment/cpdleadership/promote_cpd_culture.aspx

Blog - A Constructive Tool for Learning

Dear Teachers & PD Coordinators,

Create your own blog and expand the walls of your classrooms.

Fernette and Brock Eide’s research found that blogs can:

-   Promote critical and analytical thinking

- Be a powerful promoter of creative, intuitive, and associational thinking

- Promote analogical thinking

- Be a powerful medium for increasing access and exposure to quality information

Combine the best of solitary reflection and social interaction

Reflective, journal-type blog to ..

- Reflect on your teaching experiences

- Keep a log of teacher-training experiences

- Describe what worked for you in the classroom and what did not work

- Share ideas for teaching activities or language games to use in the classroom

Start a class blog to…               

- Post class-related information such as calendars, events, homework assignments, …

- Post assignments based on literature readings and have students respond on their own blogs, creating a kind of portfolio of their work

- Communicate with parents

- Provide vocabulary activities or grammar games

- Provide online readings for your students to read and react to

- Provide links to appropriate sites and annotate the links as to what is relevant about them

- Post photos and comment on class activities

- Publish examples of good student writing done in class

- Build a class newsletter, using student-written articles and photos they take

- Link your class with another class somewhere else in the world

*Encourage your students to blog..

The true potential of blogs in schools comes when students and teachers use them as publishing tools

* To create your own blog pl. visit:

http://www.blogger.com