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The Chartered Institute of Business Schools launched a new scheme called the Certified Management and Business Educator (CMBE). This provides business school educators (and those subjects that include business) with a framework for continuous professional development and a designation recognising their commitment to excellence in teaching. It focuses on ongoing development and complements the HEA Fellowships and the PGCert in HE, giving educators a platform to continuously develop their practice as well as providing a recognised designation when this has been achieved. It also demonstrates a commitment to the quality of learning and teaching. Educators need to commit to 40 hours of CPD a year.
Ambitious professionals often spend a substantial amount of time thinking about strategies that will help them achieve greater levels of success. They strive for a more impressive job title, higher compensation, and responsibility for more sizable revenues, profits, and numbers of employees. Their definitions of success are often heavily influenced by family, friends, and colleagues.
Conferences are a mainstay of academic life, some love them, others dread them, but they continue to play an important role in helping us to extend our understanding of specialist fields, keep up to date with the latest disciplinary thinking and, importantly, connect with fellow academics from different institutions and share ideas. They give us a rare chance get away from our day-to-day routines and have some space to reflect on our practice and professional development.
It seems like the practice of professional development within schools has witnessed some radical changes throughout the years. According to We Are Teachers, there are ten main areas that have been touched by this change. Starting with the choice of topics of PDs, in the past such topics were particularly chosen by the principal or school administrators on behalf of the teaching staff.
Creative ideas can help you drive your business to success. Brian Tracy discusses how to run a brainstorming session and encourage creative thinking. The aim of the brainstorming session should be to generate the most ideas possible within a specific period of time. ===> An effective brainstorming session will last anywhere from 15 to 45 minutes, and 30 minutes is usually ideal. <===
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Betty Ray is Edutopia's senior blog editor and community manager. Do it Yourself -- or DIY -- culture has been around since the 90s. (Remember 'zines, and indie record labels?) Now that technology is a gazillion times cheaper, more pervasive and powerful, the DIY movement is spreading into almost every aspect of society. This has powerful implications for teachers; many of whom are participating in some innovative (and low-cost, or free) professional development opportunities. To that end, I would argue that we are amid a learning renaissance, and that the DIY movement is one of its most powerful catalysts.
TED is awesome… I recently watched a TED talk by Eddie Obeng who spoke about our fast changing world. His central focus was the idea that the pace at which the world is advancing is exponential whereas the pace of learning and education is and has been consistent. Schools are improving – we just can’t keep up. Consequently, educators are feverishly looking for ways to make schools once-again interesting for kids. One of my favorite progressive educational leaders and thinkers is Sir Ken Robinson@SirKenRobinson. He gave a TED talk in 2006 that has since been viewed by over 16 million people. He is an advocate for fostering creativity in children because in the end, it will be creativity that solves the problems of tomorrow. His concern (shared by many) is that our school systems and institutions are designed around conformity, greatly reducing the ability of educators to foster creativity.
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You've heard us use the phrase 'lifelong learner' often enough to know that we believe it to be a necessity for today's digital students. This is especially true in a world that's changing with the rapidity of our own, thanks to the influx digital culture. But how does lifelong learning apply to the profession of teaching? More and more educators are discovering and embracing the changes happening in their profession, and realizing that their own learning journeys are still progressing on exciting new pathways. The aspects of this kind of learning can now be identified, and you'll see them by reading this article by Sister Geralyn Schmidt, featured recently on the PLP Network. And it all started for her with one little book ....”
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Information about Reusable Learning Objects (RLO) and Open Educational Resources (OER) RLOs and OERs offer educators the opportunity to embed pre-created applicable learning content directly into the course material. Their use is becoming ever more widespread as universities benefit from the advantages of both creating learning objects and repurposing existing material; enriching the student experience and impacting positively on recruitment, retention and progression within the institution.
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“When you listen to someone, it’s the most profound act of human respect.” -William Ury
I remember when I began my work as a professional developer and coach. It was the first time in my daily work where students were not my immediate focus. My interactions on a daily basis were with adults, and I realized that I wasn’t as prepared for this type of communication given my credentialing and my graduate studies.
I had a credential in how to teach students the subject of English, and what became increasingly clear was that I didn’t have a credential in how to work effectively with adults; and certainly didn’t have a background or an intentionally developed skillset on how to be an effective group member.
Is what I said to myself in the Christmas of 2016. Following weeks and weeks of rejection and being dicked around by varying HR departments Rob and I (mainly Rob if I’m honest) decided to take a step back from all the job applications and have a rethink of what I was applying for. My logic was – all these jobs kept rejecting me, so the common denominator was me. Which meant that I had to change something. (Not saying that was the right way of thinking but it made me look at things a little bit differently).
Wikipedia describes a personal learning network as an informal learning network that consists of the people a learner interacts with and derives knowledge from in a personal learning environment . In a PLN, a person makes a connection with another person
What is professional development? It is pretty much anything that helps one develop professionally. At the heart, professional development is about growth and learning. In the field of education, it seems like many quickly think of educational opportunities that mimic what they see in their schools. As a result, they turn professional learning and education into schooling. The problem with that is that schooling is too limiting. In this age, there are many other exciting and high-impact learning opportunities for teachers that extend beyond traditional notions of schooling. When we hear the phrase “professional development,” certain practices likely come to mind, things like in-services and conferences. In the digital age, there are countless other opportunities for professional development and restricting one’s thoughts to just a few options limits our insight into what is possible for our students. With that in mind, here is a brainstorm of 20 options available to educators today. This is far from an exhaustive list, but it is enough to start exploring the possibilities. Feel free to suggest others in a comment to this post. Learn more: Professional Development: WHY EDUcators And TEACHers Can’t Catch UP THAT Quickly AND How-To Change ItLEARNing To LEARN For MY Professional Development | I Did It MY Way
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By Alvin Crawford - As part of our Preparing Leaders for Deeper Learning series, Alvin offers steps for transformative professional development experiences.
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Improving as an educator should be like breakfast -- nutritious and delicious. Here are 10 ways to put some pizzazz in your professional development. Professional learning should be like breakfast, don’t you think? It should be nutritious, good for you. You should come away from it better than before. It should taste good, too. Make you want to come back for more. In my culinary opinion, professional learning should be like an omelet. It has eggs, veggies and some lean meat for protein. But it also has some sizzle. A good omelet tastes great and you’re wish there was more when you’re done because it was that good. .
Technology now plays a major role in the professional development of educators. So, how do we prepare them to use technology to impact their students' learning? Here are eight ideas on rethinking professional learning in the classroom.
For many curious folks, their impassioned yearning to soak up as much of the world’s wonders as possible completely transcends the boundaries of a traditional classroom. Armed with an insatiable lust for knowledge, they set out to acquire it on their own terms, although a few pointers obviously can’t hurt before departure and landing! Not every possible technique will necessarily stick with all self-motivated learners, of course, but the only way to find out is to test them. Try some of the following and experiment with what works in a more independent educational setting.
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Twitter is a powerful educational social networking website that has a huge potential for teachers professional development. Twitter is also ideal as a PLN where you get to connect with other educators from all around the globe and exchange teaching and learning materials with them. Building a PLN, however, requires making acquaintances with similar like-minded teachers and also developing your list of followers; but once you have such a solid PLN problems of maintaining it and staying updated with what others tweet become a tricky challenge. I have curated for you some powerful tools to help you benefit the maximum from the PLN you create on Twitter. Check them out below.
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Darling-Hammond: The reform impulse that gave rise to construction of new learning standards and assessments will only work if we invest in the capacity of educators to work together effectively. The reform impulse that gave rise to construction of new learning standards and assessments will only work if we invest in the capacity of educators to work together effectively. Where educators are challenged and supported to get off the hamster wheel of “covering” ever more material and work together on important questions driven by what they actually observe, student learning thrives. It’s time to clear away non-essential demands and build capacity in our schools for smarter teaching and learning—educators are ready for it, students deserve it, and our future prosperity and security require it.
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The world is awash with people and groups wishing to reform education. Some want to go “back to basics” while others want to go “forward to the future”. Amongst the more progressive groups there is a surprising degree of similarity in what they propose. Thus, the RSA “Opening Minds” project in the UK or the US based P21 or the Apple Classroom of Tomorrow Today all have a high degree of overlap - indeed a Venn diagram of their views would be almost a single circle.
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