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Professional Development |
Department
of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS) Pacific has
developed an ambitious plan to achieve its professional
development goals as outlined in the Department
of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) Community
Strategic Plan (CSP). Goal 3Motivated,
High Performing, Diverse Workforce, Outcome
B, Continuous Professional Development and Trainingstates
that Personnel at all levels will participate
in continuous professional development and training
to support standards which enhance job performance.
Five-Year
Plan
Our five-year plan establishes outcomes for professional
development for administrators and teachers. The
overarching goals for this plan emphasize the need
for our schools to develop capacity for creating
and sustaining continuous learning communities and
cultures of collaboration and the need for educators
to deepen knowledge and skills required to implement
standards-based
curriculum and instruction. |
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Best Practices
Specifically, professional development in DoDDS
Pacific will focus on deepening understanding of
content and performance standards in all curricular
areas and on the implementation of research-based
instructional strategies that are essential to promote
high student achievement. Among those best practices
are such activities as principals observing and
analyzing instruction through more frequent classroom
visits, supporting a balanced approach to developing
literacy skills across grade levels, and supporting
appropriate instruction in a standards-based classroom.
Professional development for teachers will focus
on the use of appropriate lesson design for planning
a standards-based curriculum, including effective
assessment of student performance and congruent
learning activities that are differentiated for
each learner. Teachers and administrators will learn
how to revitalize literacy efforts within our schools
so that all classrooms become places where reading,
writing, listening, and speaking skills are emphasized.
They will become more skilled at understanding the
underlying principles of systemwide
assessment and how to use assessment of all
types to make better decisions.
Training
Our professional development plan supports and encourages
a variety of training venues. Site-based small group
training sessions for teachers and administrators
will allow for closer contact with trainers and
strengthen the notion of creating learning communities.
Mentoring programs for teachers are fully developed
and in the process of being developed for administrators.
A plan for selecting and training site-based Curriculum
Implementation Facilitators (CIFs) is being developed.
CIFs will strengthen our capacity to train at the
school level and our ability to respond local needs
for professional development. They will also help
us reach one of our most important goals by helping
schools and school leaders create a culture of collaboration
through distributed leadership.
This comprehensive professional development plan
will ensure that DoDDS Pacific educators possess
the knowledge and skills needed to meet Goal 1 of
the CSP, High Student Achievement for ALL students.
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Last Updated:
September 2, 2008
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