7:55am March 14, 2006 as the students are walking down the hallway to go to class: Student: “Hey are you the guy that took the survey about cell phones?” Me: “Yeah, that was me. Do you have one?” Student: “Yep, I take it with me where ever I go.” Me: “Who do you call? Your fiends, family or Bill Gates?” […]
This week my Professional Development came in the way of conversations. Conversations in person, via e-mail, and through the new course IÂ’m running on Moodle. 6 Teachers taking the course this time bring the number of teachers now using Moodle at our school to 33 with 600 students registered. 0-600 students using an online tool in less then a yearÂ…not […]
So this week I managed about 300 minutes of PD time. I like using minutes rather then hours just because it looks like a lot more time. 🙂 Arvind Grover posted this to my original 25% PD and it had me thinking this week: Jeff, although I never thought of it in the way you describe it, that is exactly […]
OK, so this week I missed my 525 minutes of PD by 205 minutes. It was a bit of a hectic week. Hopefully next week I can make up the minutes. Here are the highlights from this week: Podcasts via iTunes March of the Penguin Podcast from David Thornburg-Moving at the Speed of Creativity No shortcuts podcast by Rafe Esquith-Moving […]
After reflecting on the amount of PD teachers should be receiving, I’ve decided that I have to control my own PD. I have been for most of this year. But it hit me today as I had a light class load that I am in charge of my own PD and so I did what you do at any good […]
I just finished reading “Standards For Staff Development” by the National Staff Development Council (NSDC). The last revised edition (from what I can find) was in 2001. After reading the document I went back and read David WarlickÂ’s post OK, No More Staff Development and my own remix of that conversation. Let me highlight a few NSDCÂ’s recommendations: Learning Communities: […]