Guiding Principles to Support Professional Growth for Faculty

Professional Growth Policy

~ The subject matter content of professional development activities/experiences should be clearly connected to student achievement:

• In the use and application of appropriate teaching techniques, learning styles, and teaching methods.
• In teacher’s abilities to apply more accurate and appropriate assessment methodologies.
• In the effectiveness of management individual students and classrooms in both homogeneous and heterogeneous settings.

~ Specifically:

• To enhance teacher teaching subject matter knowledge.
• To provide training for teachers in technology to improve teaching and learning.
• To provide professional development needs as evidenced by performance reviews.
• To increase teacher’s skillfulness, rigor, and to deepen instructional strategies.
• To participate in orientation programs for new faculty.
• To participate in formal/informal peer coaching and mentoring for new teachers.
• To encourage visitations of other schools in the tri-state area.
• To support workshops in school-in service days.
• To promote scientifically brain-based research to enhance learning.

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                             Professional Development Portfolio

A professional portfolio is a tangible collection of items that illustrates your relevant skills and experiences and charts your professional growth.

The professional portfolio should help you determine who you are, what you like to do, what you do best, and how you want to present yourself to your targeted audience.   It is a valuable tool that you can use throughout your career to: assess your professional development, prepare for professional feedback from supervisors and colleagues, and track your professional growth.

Creating a Portfolio – Menu - Artifacts

An educational statement: something ‘about me.’

Educational transcripts/Credentials

Professional development activities: education; certifications; workshops; conferences

Performance assessment/feedback/evaluation

• Course evaluations; department head/division head assessments; letters commending skills; letters of recommendations; mentoring activities/communications.

Honors and Awards

Lesson plans/assignments

• Specific lesson plans that best illustrate your class preparation; class activities; class projects; goals for field trips; teaching standards; assessment standards

Samples of students’ works

• Photocopies of works to remember.

Technology skills

• Workshops; Specific skills; illustration of competency.

Diversity initiatives

• In school, outside of schools; volunteering; community service involvement; educational travel

Co-Curricular experiences and leadership positions

• Committees; Clubs; Associations.

Athletics/Sports

Favorite readings

Favorite Links

Based on samples and recommendations: ISM; www.uwrf.edu/career; The Penn State Teacher II Handbook

ASCD
Independent School Management

Independent Curriculum Group
College Board Professional Development
The Principals' Center Harvard Graduate School  of Education
NAIS
NJAIS
Curriculum Designers
Marco Polo - Education (Middle School Curriculum)
Apple.com - Education
Government Education Programs

Learning and the Brain Conference

NYSAIS

www.changeleadershipgroup.org

http://ceep.indiana.edu/hssse/index.htm

Weblogg-ed.com Will Richardson

Channel Thirteen- Education

ACTFL-  Language Teaching

ICG-Curriculum Group

edtechteacher.org- Teaching with technology

http://ipadsummitusa.org- IPad Summit

PBS Education

Khanaacademy/Teaching Tools

NYU- Humanities-Continuing School of Education

PEN World Lectures

Drew Univesity - Interdisciplinary Graduate Program

Columbia University - Klingerstein Program

Fullbright Teacher Exchange Program

Summer Oxford Programs

Summer Grants - NEH

One Day University - Times Center, NYC

The New School, NYC

92nd Street Y, NYC

The China Institute

Lincoln Center Summer Educational Programs

Helpful Organizations and Asssociations:

Grant Wiggins and Associates And Assessment

National Association of Ealry Childhood Teacher Education

National Council for Teachers of Mathematics

National Council of Teachers of English

National Educational Association

National Science Teachers Association

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

ACTFL for language teachers

Suggested Readings:

A Mind at a Time by Mel Levine, M.D.
Cultural Literacy by E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
The Humanities in the Schools by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Unschooled Mind by Howard Gardner
Children and the Internet by Sylvia Livingston

Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky

Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts by Tony Wagner

Pull by John Seely Brown

Mindset by Carol Dweek

Rethinking Education and Technology
Teaching and Learning Through Multiple Inelligences
by Linda Campbell and Dee Dickinson

Living, Leading, and the American Dream
by John W. Gardner
The Limits of Change by Richard Elmore

Classroom Assessment Methods by Thomas A. Angelo and K. Patricia Cross

Improving Student Learning by Jane E. Pollock

Transforming Assessment by W. James Popham

Qualities of Effective Teachers by James H. Stronge

Brain Based Learning by Eric Jensen

Assessing Student Performance: Grant Wiggins

Nurture Schock: New Thinking about Children P. Bronson

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by C. Dweck

The Art of Changing the Brain by James E. Zui

Checking for Understanding by Fisher and Frey

Brain Based Learning by Eric Jensen

Periodicals:

Classroom Connect - A K-12 educator's practical guide to the Internet in the classroom.

Education Weekly - A weekly periodical dedicated to issues about education in the US.

Independent School - This periodical is an open forum for exchanges of information about elementary and secondary education in general, and in independent schools.

Phi Delta Kappan - A sophisticated periodical that relates to educational issues of the day.

Teachers Magazine - This periodical explores all kinds of issues related to education.  There is a down-to-earth quality to this review.

Higher Education Chronicle - A higher education periodical that grapples with issues and trends in higher education.