Competency 5: Engage in Professional Development
· Demonstrates the disposition for life-long learning and continuous professional development
It is difficult to narrow down and choose items to include as evidence for this competency. Outside my transcript from Purdue, strong evidence of my “disposition for life-long learning and continuous professional development,” I attend an ongoing stream of conferences, workshops and forums, both online and in person. As very recent examples, last Thursday, January 22nd, I attended an eLearning Administrators Academy and tomorrow, January 30th, I am attending a Principals’ Forum at the Central Indiana Educational Service Center. In including representative documents showing the range of my learning, I have included a flyer for the workshop I attended at our local educational center titled, “Implementing the New Indiana College and Career Readiness ELA Standards K-5: A Five-Day Series.” During the multi-day event, we actively engaged the content and skills by collaboratively constructing documents and modeling the classroom process. I brought this information back to our corporation and shared it out. The other document I have included is a screen shot of a course I am currently completing in PIVOT-Points through FIve-Star on the topic of “Blended and Online Teaching.” The course explores mindsets and instructional design concepts that overlap with many explored through the Instructional Design and Technology program, but also includes resources and discussions about topic particular to K-12 education, such as whether teachers should be “allowed” to move slowly toward digital learning or whether major changes to be mandated quickly. We have also explored digital tools particular to classroom teachers. When online and in-person experiences like these are coupled with the rigorous work of the Purdue program, I am demonstrating an ongoing, aggressive pattern of pursuing knowledge and expanding my experiences, a habit I will continue into the future.
Pivot Point Course
PD Literacy Flyer
Pivot Point Course
PD Literacy Flyer