Professional learning is guided by a learner’s goals, strengths, interests and needs.
Professional learning is guided by a learner’s goals, strengths, interests and needs.
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Why?
Adult learners have a well-established sense of self. Personalized professional learning taps into what is most relevant and motivating to the participants and honors an adults' ability to direct and guide his/her own learning.
Guiding Questions:
How can I intentionally create a learning environment to support the personal learning needs of participants?
How have I evaluated participants’ needs to guide personalized professional learning?
What opportunities will I provide participants to strengthen their ability to design their learning path in pursuit of their professional goals?
Learning Resources:
Key 5: Making Professional Learning Personal Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow's Schools, Today. Eric C. Sheninger and Thomas C. Murray. Alexandria, VA: ASCD, 2017. P 140-161.
Chapter 1: The Case for Professional Learning to Support Equity and Personalization Growing Into Equity: Professional Learning and Personalization in High-Achieving Schools. Sonia Caus Gleason and Nancy Gerzon. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin / Learning Forward / WestEd, 2013. P 1-11.
Chapter 5: Building Educator Capacity: Personalized Professional Development Tapping the Power of Personalized Learning: A Roadmap for School Leaders James Rickabaugh. Alexandria, VA: ASCD, 2016. p 97-108.
Facilitation Strategies:
Passion Profiles/Activity: Passion profiles can be used to identify the passion that most accurately describes who you are as an educator.
Zones of Comfort: The purpose of the Zones of Comfort, Risk, and Danger exercise is to recognize and share the responses and feelings that arise with a variety of requests and to recognize different people’s responses to the same request.
Dot voting: This is an activity that can be used when brainstorming has resulted in a plethora of useful ideas, concepts and possibilities. To proceed to the next step in a process, dot voting can help a group prioritize and move forward.
Think, Puzzle, Explore : Use this activity to connect to prior knowledge, to stimulate curiosity and to lay the groundwork for independent inquiry.
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