Lebanon is one of the four countries who are part of this huge program, EduLead. As a result, I want to dedicate this page to show their work, contribution and commitment to the program.
The EduLead program has always been a room for educational conversations and thus building new friendships with teachers who I am proudly posting their work here.
(All their work is already shared, posted and published on Whats-app Groups, Rite Education Electronic Magazine, google drives, and their web pages.)
Implementing professional development plan: Theories and Practices
Implementing a professional development plan at a school requires careful planning and basing practices on grounded theories and tenets in the field. Often, the personnel involved in professional development find that what applies to teacher education intersects with what applies to student learning. Here, I chose several practices and theories that have worked well when I worked with groups of teachers.
Experiential learning and the practice cycle
Kolb’s model of learning (Kolb & Kolb, 2005) aims at transforming schools through reflective observation and experimentation in a four stage-cycle of:
· Concrete experience when lesson observation takes place to collect evidence to be used in the feedback session
· Reflective observation which is based on the evidence collected, and feedbacking occurs here to assist the teacher to reflect on practice
· Abstract conceptualization which includes encouraging teachers to discuss the deep structures of teaching to establish theoretical principles that undergo the observed behaviors
· Active experimentation in which the discussion of principles is derived from the lesson to decide how to apply them in a new situation.
Ms Doha Arnouss, a great teacher at Al-Ofoq Jadeed High School, created a magnificent graphic that very clearly models the key elements of an article as for the July Assignment.
The graphic depicts the ways for reinventing kids' education through mentioning the elements for the future schools' curriculum.
You can view the article by clicking here.
Ms. Amira's website was for August online task. She gathered lots of resources on education and leadership.
I loved sharing this quote posted on her website:
"Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs and habits. Nowadays, there are many theories and articles that talk about the development of educational methods and how to deal with students in the classroom, whether academically, emotionally or socially. There are also many researches about the importance of teaching children how to drive and human values from a young age. This website will help you get to know all of this."
Kindly visit her website by clicking here.