If I go to one more education professional development and see the presenter show a movie she made of her vacation to demonstrate imovies or a presenter show pictures of his cat to demonstrate PowerPoint, I will scream so loud that the windows will break! When will presenters use real educational examples? When will they show real examples from actual classroom? When will they show real examples from the subject areas and grade level of the teachers attending the professional development?
When will professional development people ask participants to create real examples for their classrooms instead of making something “for the fun of it”? When will professional development people focus on student learning of standards through the application? When will professional development people take participants through the whole process from presentation to issues in using the application in the classroom? When will professional development people show teachers how to use the application at the highest level of thinking? When will professional development people set up a schedule to visit the participants as they use the application in the classroom? When will professional development people meet with the participants to encourage them to do more in-depth learning of the standard through the application? I want to scream when I see “Let me dazzle you” professional development.
Professional development does not work because it is not real to the teacher. Get real and help classroom teachers. Then I’ll scream shouts of joy!
© Harry Grover Tuttle, 2007
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