Hi,
I was thinking about the development day coming up on Monday. So often I feel that we see this day as a time when we could be doing one hundred other things, but instead we have to sit through meetings and training. As a part of the VT for the 6-12 English, I am excited that it seems we will be doing activities that directly relate to what is happening in our PLC. Yet I still fear that people will come in with a "this will be a waste of time" attitude. I was wondering what you do to make development day a positive, learning experience for you. Do you think there is more that our leaders of meetings could do to make the experience more helpful?
We had a test-giving training for our development day--and it took the whole day. Actually, I thought it was a good use of time because it started to de-stress the idea of giving a large and complicated test into chunks, and there was GRR with the trainer! So I found it quite satisfying to have a day devoted to training, questions, and planning.
ReplyDeleteI have struggled with staff development days this year (specfically VT). In my case, the problem is occuring because the VT sessions have become very abtract, conceptual sessions and I tend to be more of a concrete, tangible thinker. Neither is wrong...however it often leaves me feeling like I didn't learn anything tangible to use in my classroom or that is really going to impact me and my teaching at all. I think the conceptual/abstract conversations are necessary, however at times frustrating :)
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