Professional Development
ON-LINE COURSES
FROM MTA PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Each course includes 12 sessions and is eligible for 67.5 PDPs. A fee of $180 per course is payable to MTA. Framingham State College tuition (for PDPs) is $180 per course.
http://www.massteacher.org/news/headlines/headlines_2007-09-14.cfm
http://www.massteacher.org/teaching/conferences/cepp0708.pdf
The district professional development survey has been sent out via awrsd district email. Everyone’s response is necessary so that the professional development committee will have complete data to report and to work with. The link is listed below and is also on your awrsd email. Please take the 5 minutes it takes to complete this.
The PD committee is asking that you complete this by April 13th.
Professional development activities are offered at the various district schools.
These activities are designed to match the goals that were developed in the district's school improvement plan.
TO: Staff
FROM: Professional Development Committee
RE: Professional Development
DATE: June 5, 2006
This year’s professional development was designed to provide a broad understanding of the components of a standards-based curriculum that included curriculum mapping and assessments. In order to continue our district standards-based focus, differentiated instruction, another component of a standards-based curriculum, will be introduced at a district workshop on November 7, 2006. There will be three full days and three half days for professional development in the 06-07 school year.
Time will be provided to:
COMPLETE CURRICULUM MAPS Identify content knowledge, and skills Align state standards to the maps COMPARE INDIVIDUAL MAPS Meet as buildings, departments, curriculum areas, and grade level Match grade level maps and state standardsIf time permits, inter-school common groups will align standards and create performance assessments that match their state standards.
In a continuing effort to maintain quality professional development courses in our district, a 3 credit course titled, “Understanding by Design” will be offered to staff beginning in January. This course will be taught by Karen Martin, Curriculum Instructor of Lunenburg Public schools. The course will allow participants to put into practice standards-based design components. Participants will develop standards-based units using the backward design model. More information on this course will follow as time gets closer.