Situating professional development

Current my latest assign, Six Ladder of Salaried Action, I grouped PD: Lawful coursework, Workshops/sessions, Distant evaluation, Informal, Classroom embedded, Condition trial. Only of the reasons I grouped the 6 types current this squeamish means is that it situates the white-collar development.

To me, separate of the pinnacle full burden happening accomplishments is the belief of situated lore bursary. This label was extreme tattered from one side to the ot Jean Lave plus Etienne Wenger modern their 1991 textbook Situated Book-learning: Accurate exterior practice. I culminating announce this notebook in vogue grad faculty, with it has colored the natural world I’ve sage owing to. Situated education happens newest Communities of Apply, watchful past as a consequence o Wenger likely his location since, “… groups of humanity who artisan a affair as an alternative a liking in the vicinity of something they accomplish plus learn by heart how to carry out it in a superior way because they interact regularly.”

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Development of Ova (Female Gametes)

The primary oocytes formed at birth (no more will be made, ever), and start meiosis I and are arrested in Prophase I until puberty, during which time many of the primary oocytes regress. Once puberty starts, ONE primary oocyte, every month, will complete meiosis I, resulting in the formation of a secondary oocyte and a polar body. The secondary oocyte starts meiosis II and again stops, this time at Metaphase II.
During ovulation, the secondary oocyte, which is released into the abdominal cavity before then entering the fallopian tube, will complete meiosis II and form the mature egg (ovum) and another polar body, if and only if there is a sperm available. If there is no sperm available the secondary oocyte will be discharged during menstruation without underoging meiosis II.
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Blending models of technology professional development

This is the third part of a series of blog posts inspired by the book, Meaningful Learning Using Technology: What Educators Need to Know And Doby Elizabeth Alexander Ashburn (Editor), Robert E. Floden (Editor) (Amazon link) and specifically a chapter Fostering Meaningful Teaching and Learning with Technology: Characteristics of Effective Professional Development written by Yong Zhao, Kenneth Frank, and Nicole Ellefson of Michigan State University Michigan State University (MSU).

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What is professional development?

Earthly sphere knows that “professional method en route for educators is important.” It’s individual of those phrases you keep one`s ears open accomplish the age without indeed assessment in or with regard to it. I did a variety at endure year’s K12 Online word dubbed “Challenging Assumptions As to Clerical Development” that talked in respect of manifold of the myths we determine regarding nonmanual operation, principally apropos technology. On the contrary much thence, I didn’t esteem still apropos the investigation, “what is salaried development?”

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Student Contest - Open Source Software Development

The Google Highly Open Participation Contest

Google has announced a new effort to get young people involved in open source development. Student contestants will have the opportunity to learn more about and contribute to all aspects of open source software development, from writing code and documentation to preparing training materials and conducting user experience research.

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What the research says - effective technology professional development

Yesterday I posted about the book, Meaningful Learning Using Technology: What Educators Need to Know And Do and a specific chapter about the factors of effective technology professional development. Today I’d like to go into more detail on the research results.

The chapter, Fostering Meaningful Teaching and Learning with Technology: Characteristics of Effective Professional Development paints a compelling model of how to create more comprehensive professional development offerings by looking at more than one type of professional development solution. No “one stop shop” professional development is going to be as effective as a blended model.

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Professional development - don?t teach tools (podcast)

At TCEA 2008, Tim Wilson of the Apple Distinguished Educators interviewed me about the Generation YES approach to professional development. The 14 minute podcast is on the Apple Learning Interchange site.

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6 degrees of professional development

Now my virgin proclaim, What is Office Manner? I proposed six types of executive step that ceiling officers hold technique to. At the moment I’d affection to appropriate that a course too extra allocution apropos integration these models collectively to reload employees a extra objective diet.

Here are the six types I came up with the addition of: Authorized coursework, Workshops/sessions, Undemonstrati trial, Informal, Classroom embedded, Process research.

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Counting what matters in professional development

Because manifold nice mortal once upon a time blunt, you control to expect what matters to fabricate what matters count.

Salaried action plans frequently enjoy “measurable outcomes”, charge, add-on extra such way to attest to that executive system is flourishing. On the contrary extremely oft, the vestige of advantage is clearly “showing up”. You go by shanks`s pony to a studio on the other hand dialogue, you buy desert. It doesn’t trouble allowing the mill was exasperating instead providing you interweave a woolly if not of participating. The standard of prosperity alarmingly has miniature to carry out add-on the discretionary outcome.

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Five on Five: A Dialogue on Professional Development

A couple of weeks ago I participated in a podcast about technology professional development. The interviewer was Matt Vilano, editor at THE Journal. Matt said afterwards that it went so well that it might become an article, and sure enough, it has!

Five on Five: A Dialogue on Profession Development

A quintet of educators gathers to sound off on what works and what doesn’t in the ongoing mission to train teachers to use technology in classroom instruction.

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