PD Resources

Here are some ideas to support learning, sharing, planning, and the development of staff community.

Beyond Critical Thinking

PD day activities sample slide deck:

Generating an understanding of student and teacher experiences in a GC classroom in a math class

Activities:

Visual School Goals

    • Create a Padlet for staff to visually share their learning with connections to the Global Competencies
    • Use FlipGrid for staff to share their connections to Global Competencies through a video wall ex. Sutton
    • Share on Twitter #TVDSBGlobal
    • Visually have your goal available for students and staff to easily access throughout the building

Social Media Sharing

    • Have your staff travel within the school in groups to identify areas where the global competencies are addressed and/or
    • Amazing Race through the Competencies
    • Take a picture at each location, upload to Twitter and briefly describe connections to the competencies
    • Use #TVDSBGlobal to share within the Board and beyond

"Getting to Know a Partner"

    • Have staff sit as a department. Individually, have them determine which of the Global Competencies is their area of greatest strength. Then, have them work with a partner and see which Global Competency the partner sees as their strength. Examine the answers as a department (or inter-departmentally) to develop or define teams/groups

Guest Experts and Panels

    • Provide a snapshot of the benefits of Global Competencies in the community

Name Tag

    • "Hello I am interested in..." rather than "Hello my name is..." to establish collaboration and interdisciplinary approaches
    • Staff then circulate the room to identify colleagues with similar interests
    • The ensuing conversation will be a brainstorming session to identify possible collaborations between the teachers/departments

Competency Teams

    • Collaborate in competency interdisciplinary teams for PD rather than departments

Connections

    • Share how teachers have employed the Global Competencies. Highlight the elements Rethink Secondary and make notes about connections to classes.
    • Make connections to Growing Success and the Global Competencies
    • Look for common language, especially verbs, throughout curriculum documents to create connections for assessment
    • Make language visible on projects

Artifact

    • Staff share artifacts or samples of ways they have incorporated a global competency within a project
    • Make connections to artefacts of others and adapt them for your own subject area, OR make interdisciplinary connections to incorporate your subjects and projects together

Global Stations

    • Solve a problem by circulating through Global Competencies Stations to experience different approaches to learning and teaching.

Probing Questions:

  • Why are the Global Competencies important for student learning?
  • Share the video The Future of Work and discuss how this makes you reflect on your on teaching practice. How are we preparing students today and for the future?
  • What would an ideal learning environment look like? How are you creating this?
  • How can we highlight what is already being done in classrooms with the Global Competencies?
  • What are the next steps to enhance and track the Global Competencies?
  • How are you challenging yourself to learn and try something new?
  • How are assessments designed to promote learning rather than just a measurement tool?

Padlet Sample

FlipGrid Sharing

Visible School Goal

Community Connections

Team- Building

TVDSB South project.mp4

How do your students recognize Global Competencies?

Staff Share Artifacts

Staff Build Competency-Focused Bulletin Boards