Highly Effective PD- Progress

After compiling resources for my goal, I needed to plan a way to organize all the information I gathered. I broke my tasks down into the following three steps:

  • Understand the foundation principles of assessment by looking at Alberta Education documents and school examples
  • Use my knowledge of aligning assessment practices to better meet student needs to find examples of technology that can facilitate assessment for learning strategies
  • Find examples and strategies to plan highly effective PD

Similar to the files on my computer, I felt that I needed to sub-categorize the information a bit more, and used the  article  8 Top Tips for Highly Effective PD from Edutopia  to do so. In many ways, the eight tips align with the resources, tools and examples of practices I collected. I feel weaving these elements together will ultimately create a strong unified piece.

Originally,  I was going to create a list/worksheet with the resources, but it has now evolved to a Google Document; I guess you can say it’s an electronic worksheet. I decided to go in this direction because I can share it with my administrative team to get input, and edit/revise it as I go along.  There are also elements of my inquiry project that will work better as a collaborative tool rather than a handout. Ultimately it will  serve me better in the future when I need to organize three school based PD days.