Good day or evening, all!

Today begins Week Three in our discussion of Quality Professional
Development. Based on this month's discussions, AALPD (www.aalpd.org
<http://www.aalpd.org/> ) will finalize a draft set of quality standards
for providing professional development in our field. To pick back up
with our discussions, please post your responses to one or more of the
questions below:

		A.	What are the benefits and drawbacks of having
quality professional development standards? 
		B.	Will standards help PD staff to provide -- or
practitioners to identify -- quality professional development? 
		C.	How well does the AALPD draft measure up with
what subscribers have indicated is quality professional development? 
		D.	From this draft: 

			1.	What do you think are the most important
PD standards or indicators? 
			2.	What are the most important standards to
advance PD in your area/state? 
			3.	What PD Standards would be easy to
implement? 
			4.	What would be hard to implement? 
			5.	Is there anything missing? 
			6.	Is there anything that isn't clear? 
			7.	What would need to be in place in order
to make these standards possible? 

 

Discussion Resources:

 

Part I Discussion summary - Experiences with PD that Lead to Change:

 

http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/Summary:_PD_Experiences

 

Draft AALPD Standards for Providing Quality Professional Development:

 

http://www.aalpd.org/AALPDStandardsandIndicatorscombined11-06-07.doc

 

Full discussion thread, experiences with PD that leads to change:

 

http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/PD_Experiences_that_Change_Practi
ce

 

Background about AALPD's work in drafting quality standards for PD and
the draft's research foundation:

 

http://www.aalpd.org/priorities_pdstandards.htm  

 

 

-- If you are replying to a specific question, please keep your subject
line specific to reflect the topic of your post.

 

I hope many of us will chime into the discussions this week. I look
forward to hearing from you.

 

Jackie Taylor, List Moderator, jataylor at utk.edu 

 

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