Personalized PD competency-based professional development helps educators transition to a time-saving, highly-relevant, and more flexible professional development. Through the use of Personalized PD, educators use social media tools to Capture-Curate-Share the transfer of learning. Personalized PD allows educators to earn graduate credit toward licensure renewal and salary advancement by using tools such as Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, Google Drive, and many more. Regardless of time, place, or pace---educators are in total control of their professional growth. Competency-based professional growth provides educators with the autonomy to choose what works best for their personalized professional growth.
Through the use of Personalized PD, teachers are able to demonstrate these competencies in action:
- Knowledge of how students learn and of student development.
- Use of content-specific instructional strategies to teach concepts and skills.
- Use of various strategies to encourage independent and critical thinking.
- Students are provided the opportunity to demonstrate mastery in a variety of ways.
- Use of strategies to motivate students to work productively and assume responsibility for learning.
- Analysis of data to monitor student progress and to plan, differentiate and modify instruction.
- Shared responsibility with parents/caregivers to support student learning.
