Adult Literacy Professional Development

• Professional Development Policy Matrix
  

• AALPD Professional Development Policies and Advocacy
  

• Professional Development Policy History and Advocacy
  

AALPD's Professional Development Registry

• Obtain PD resources, activities, and training guides, or share your own. Registrants can request feedback from others.

State Professional Development Systems

• Discussion of State Professional Development Systems
• List of State Literacy Resource Centers StatePD
• State Conferences
• PD Systems Matrix
• NEW! COABE 2008

Professional Development Approaches and Methods

• PDMethodsMatrix
  
• Program-Based Professional Development
• Video as a Professional Development Tool
• Peer Mentoring/Coaching
• Self-Study as Professional Development

Professional Development and Research

PD for PD Professionals

PD Glossary

Announcements

Initiatives

Give Feedback on Draft AALPD Professional Development Quality Standards

• AALPD PD Quality Standards Feedback

Online Discussions

Project-Based Learning as Professional Development

• September 4-11, 2007
• Guest: Heide Spruck Wrigley
• To participate, subscribe to the Adult Literacy Professional Development Discussion List.

TBA: Peer Mentoring and Peer Coaching

Topic-of-the-Month

The PD List is highlighting a monthly topic. To share resources pertaining to the month's topics, visit the link(s) below: July: Follow-Up Models to Professional Development

Want to Help?

Key Issues for Professional Development

• Needing e-resources to link to any of the key issues. Add them yourself or email the links to: jackie@jataylor.net

PD Community Special Interests

• Economic Stimulus and PD
• NEW! Advocating for PD
• Professional Wisdom
• Student Involvement and Critical Thinking
• Quality Professional Development
• Research on Professional Development and Teacher Change: Implications for Adult Basic Education
• Going the Distance: Online and Blended Models of Sustained Professional Development
• Key Issues for Professional Development
• Action Research as Professional Development
• Learner Leadership and Learner Perspectives
• Online Professional Development
• Transition to College
• Creativity and Innovation
• Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles

PD Questions

• What do you feel is the biggest professional development challenge for adult educators in the next 5-10 years? Professional Development Challenge
• What resources do others find useful in understanding elections - the process and the issues? What activities have others used in the classroom and professional development training room? Voting and Elections
• What are successful strategies for training tutors? Tutor Training
• Where can I go to learn more about the field of adult literacy? Orienting to the Field of Adult Literacy Education
• What are the career pathways in adult literacy education? Career Pathways in Adult Literacy Education
• How do you Evaluate the Effectiveness of PD? Evaluating Professional Development
• Change more, or change less? Teacher Experience and Change
• How do you deal with the issue of a wide range of teacher experience in PD? Range of Teacher Experience
• What works in adult literacy and ESOL professional development?  WhatWorksInPD
  
• What are questions for research about professional development?  Professional Development (15)
• What are ways to bring research into the classroom? CALPROCOABE2005
• Facilitator? Teacher? Trainer? What's the difference?  RolesInPD
• What are the Myths and Realities in Professional Development?  MythsAndRealities
• Does anyone have example teacher needs assessments they'd be willing to share? Staff Development Needs Assessment
• What books or films would inspire teachers to have high expectations of their students, especially young adults, to give 100% each day to their teaching? Books and Films which Inspire Teachers