Online PD
Educators' professional learning is increasingly done online. Learn more about online PD, including how well it works
Curriculum
Providing Credit for Teacher Online PD Efforts
New forms of online professional development are challenging traditional methods used to acknowledge teacher efforts.
Education
Opinion
Bionic PD: Half Live, Half Digital
Jennie Magiera
Differentiated. Relevant. Engaging. These are all words used to describe quality instruction. Yet how ironic is it that they so rarely describe the professional development of teachers. Most of the time we are talked at for several hours on a Saturday morning, or in the afternoon after a long day in the classroom, with nothing to engage us but a conciliatory bowl of candy. This would not stand in our classrooms, so why does it with teacher PD?
Differentiated. Relevant. Engaging. These are all words used to describe quality instruction. Yet how ironic is it that they so rarely describe the professional development of teachers. Most of the time we are talked at for several hours on a Saturday morning, or in the afternoon after a long day in the classroom, with nothing to engage us but a conciliatory bowl of candy. This would not stand in our classrooms, so why does it with teacher PD?
Education
Opinion
Virtual Conferences and PLC'S
"As school leaders, we must recognize that no matter what programs we introduce or seek to strengthen, our most important work is to improve the people in our schools." Todd Whitaker
Curriculum
Online Common Core PD Offered by ASCD
Three courses will focus on implementing the mathematics standards and the other four will address strategies for incorporating literacy standards.
Special Report
Virtual PD Creates Connections
This special report, another installment in Education Week's series on virtual education, examines how K-12 professional development is taking a more digital and freewheeling approach to educator training.
Teacher Preparation
Education Schools Playing Online PD Catch-Up
Offerings from many schools of education are more aligned with traditional face-to-face approaches, but some colleges are moving to incorporate more virtual PD into their programs.
School & District Management
Administrators Go Online to Share Ideas, Learn New Skills
Overbooked schedules and tight budgets are increasingly pushing K-12 administrators toward online professional development.
Classroom Technology
Virtual Schools Offer PD Programs for E-Teaching
Because schools of education have been slow to offer programs to develop virtual instructors, many of the nation’s leading online schools are trying to fill the void.
Standards & Accountability
Common Core Accelerates Interest in Online PD
Education leaders say the Internet will be a powerful tool for sharing resources and best practices across state and district lines.
Professional Development
Professional Development in Online Instruction
This chart depicts the types of professional-development activities online teachers participated in related to online instruction.
School & District Management
eLearning Update: Online PD for Teachers
Teachers who took online professional development courses improved their instruction and subject knowledge, as well as produced gains in student achievement, says a new study by e-Learning for Educators, a 10-state consortium funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Ready to Teach program.
Education
Opinion
Give the Gift of FREE PD with K-12 Online Conference
Educators, whether they are active in the blogosphere or not, are saying great things about all
Professional Development
Leveraging Online Tools for Teacher PD
More From NSDC, St. Louis-- Yesterday, my co-live bloggers Nancy Flanagan and Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and I put ourselves in the spotlight and gave a presentation at the NSDC conference on "Leveraging Online Tools for Teacher Learning." I offered a short contextual intro (after figuring out how to work the microphone and realizing I shouldn't stand in front of the projector, that is), and then the pros took over. Nancy gave an excellent primer on the art of facilitating online training sessions, and Sheryl provided a stirring look at the transformational potential of new learning technologies (complete with a live Skyped-in visitor and contributions from her twitter followers).