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Staff Development
  1. Characteristics of staff development in education

    1. Ambivalence about providing staff development opportunities in education
    2. An assumption that preservice training provided all of the knowledge a teacher needed
    3. Offered as a discrete event outside of a teacher's regular job
    4. An over-reliance on one day workshop approaches

  2. Current perspectives of staff development are changing

    1. Providing opportunities for dialogue, feedback, and reflection
    2. Reorganizing school cultures and practices to support teachers' staff development needs
    3. Understanding the important features of staff development to find a supportive work environment

  3. Why it is important to find schools that value staff development

    1. Change is more likely in certain contexts
      1. Opportunities for collaboration
      2. Time available to engage in dialogue and reflection
      3. The major goal of staff development is to unite school staff
      4. The development of trust and willingness to try new ideas

    2. Creating positive learning opportunities
      1. Time for teachers to work together
      2. Time for teachers to observe each other
      3. Time to engage in dialogue and reflection


  4. Effective staff development

    1. Provides theoretical and conceptual information
    2. Creates opportunities to actively apply knowledge and skills
    3. Fits within the culture of the school and classroom
    4. Acknowledges the developmental pace of learning
    5. Allows time for reflection and dialogue
    6. Promotes an awareness of how new strategies fit with current values and beliefs
    7. Includes both internal and external staff development processes
    8. Includes democratic processes for deciding staff development topics

  5. Examples of staff development strategies

    1. Peer collaboration strategy
      1. Identify a specific concern
      2. Summarize the concern, the teacher's response, and aspects of the concern that the teacher can control
      3. Generate at least three possible interventions, predict outcomes, and reflect on potential benefits
      4. Develop an evaluation plan that describes what kind of data will be used to observe whether the intervention was successful

    2. Mentorship programs for new teachers
    3. Coaching strategies
    4. "Trainer of trainers" model
    5. Peer coaching teams
    6. Building systems-level staff development systems
    7. Evaluation of staff development

  6. Issues related to staff development and positive behavioral support

    1. Comprehensive curriculum
      1. Establishing a collective vision
      2. Collaborating and building teams with families and community members
      3. Conducting a functional assessment
      4. Designing and implementing positive behavioral support
      5. Monitoring and evaluating positive behavioral support plans
      6. Considering broader systems issues

    2. Important staff development features
      1. Classes or workshops occurring on a longitudinal basis
      2. Inservice training that provide opportunities to apply information
      3. Multidisciplinary focus, possibly designed around an interdisciplinary team and real student
      4. Assistance identifying and intervening at a systems-level




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