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When looking at the requests and ideas of those polled, it is apparent that a desire to shape your own learning exists.

Setting up Learning Environments could include teacher's choosing from a menu of options for PD or starting the school year with school wide and class wide SMART goals. Learning opportunities can be offered both in house from co-workers as well as from outside presenters, or online software/job aides etc.

As each individual can customize their learning to meet the goals of the school and their classroom, collaboration is key. Minimum monthly meetings of collaboration should be held to share out on best practices and to garner advice from colleagues. Live meetings or virtual meetings can be held, but it is recommended that a real-time discussion forum be accessible for teachers to communicate and collaborate between meetings. Teachers will continued to be measured for their hours and performance as growth should occur with learning opportunities.

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What is your opinion on Professional Development and allowing teachers to have a hand in crafting their learning?

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What is your opinion on Professional Development and allowing teachers to have a hand in crafting their learning?

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Leave your ideas in a post below, and thank you for collaborating with me :)

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While many reported having well over 30 hours in one year for professional development, it is important to understand that quantity does not necessarily mean quality. Teachers do have a duty to continue to sharpen their tools, and making the most of their hours in learning opportunities is key.

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Just as with out students, adult learners have preferred learning styles and strategies. Allowing teachers to choose their learning method is a great way to customize and move toward personalizing professional development for educators.

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Collaboration with peers, mentors, mentees, and other faculty in a school is important. Collaborating allows for collective solutions and ideas to solve school wide or even just class wide concerns or goals.

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It is important to view how a teacher would like to choose and be assigned learning opportunities. A majority of the teachers polled preferred to sign up for PDs rather than be assigned and given an agenda.

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While implementation of new strategies and reflection are processes that should take place within a teachers mind and classroom daily, professional development and learning of new strategies can occur as frequently as designed. Polling indicates that while no one prefers a school wide, or generic PD,  a small group (customized) or individual learning (personalized) is preferred.

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Setting and learning environment is just as important to an educator's learning, similar to our students.

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Do you find professional learning development to be necessary to educators?

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Do you find professional learning development to be necessary to educators?

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Those polled gave a 100% YES to professional learning development being a necessary element for educators.

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Personal choice in Professional Development

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Personal choice in Professional Development

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100% of teachers polled would like to have a voice in what PD courses they take.

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Would you like new professional learning topics each year?

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Would you like new professional learning topics each year?

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When growing as a school and as a teacher, we often find we need one topic or task a year. This closure helps us, but sometimes we can gain from a ever evolving practice and study on certain topics. IE. Differentiation strategies and techniques

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Thank you for your feedback on professional learning for educators. As educators, we know what is needed in our own specific classroom, sometimes calling for customized or personalized learning. (No different than we do for our kiddos). Check out the data in the columns to the right and feel free to add your ideas of opinions on the findings. **Note, the survey responses were very few, but this survey can easily be orchestrated across a larger audience for further and future discussions.

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