Teachers Guide on Creating Personalized Learning Networks
This web page provides a general overview of PLNs and multiple resources for educators related to PLNs.
Professional Learning in the Learning Profession: A status report on teacher development in the United States and abroad
This report provides an overview of professional learning and includes examples of formal and informal professional learning opportunities with some research regarding the effectiveness of self-directed learning opportunities.
Lesson-Sharing Sites Raise Issues of Ownership, Use
This article discusses lesson-sharing sites, key sources for common-core related PD, and the issues with ownership. “Say you’re a teacher and you’ve created a bang-up lesson on how to teach fractions on the number line. Everyone in the faculty room loves it. Fellow teachers are begging for copies. Your principal suggests you post it online for others to use…”
Statewide Use of Professional Learning Communities
This report examines how states are using school-wide, large-scale professional learning communities in their school improvement work.
EdTech Leaders Online: A case study of scalable online professional development programs
Clayton Christensen Institute. This case study looks at the impact of West Virginia’s e-Learning for Educators program implementation and sustainability model.
Online Communities of Practice: What Works
Four leaders of successful community of practice (COP) education initiatives participated in a panel at FETC and shared their knowledge about and experience with best practices for online communities of education practitioners. This article is an excerpt of the discussion.
U.S. Department of Education’s Connect and Inspire: Online Communities of Practice in Education
This report is targeted to education leaders and stakeholders who are interested in exploring, starting, or strengthening online communities of practice for educators.
Differentiated Literacy Coaching
Chapter 1 provides an overview of the rationale for technology coaching, principles for coaching and ideas for planning and evaluating a coaching model.
Effective Coaching by Design
This article provides an overview of the value of coaching and the essential steps for successful coaching.
LearnPort
LearnPort serves all members of Michigan’s educational community, including faculty, administrators and staff in schools, affiliated professional organizations, and college and university education students and their teacher education faculty, as well as guests and collaborating users by providing high-quality online professional development, collaboration spaces and other resources for the education community.