Professional Development

John Hattie, an educational researcher, discusses what makes schools and teachers successful.  After studying thousands of schools, teachers, and students, this video identifies what his data shows.  This video would be great to show at a teacher inservice to generate conversations on methods that might makes your educational environment more successful.  His findings are interesting.  A question that is addressed is, "What influences student achievement?"

Below is a chart that shows some of his findings:

A recipe for great teaching with only 4 ingredients. Content, Pedegogy, Authenticity, Human Relationships

In this video Bill Gates discusses the importance of time for Professional Developments with the Washington State Teacher of the Year, Katie Brown.  Katie does an excellent job discussing what her school does to improve the educational environment. In the video, collaboration, whole-group learning, small-group training, individual coaching, and teachers observing teachers are all discussed on their relevance to Professional Development.