Order 2497314: Professional Development Reflection

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Professional Development Session Reflection: The benchmark assignment is a compilation of the skills and knowledge gained in this course. This is an opportunity to convey what you have learned and reflect upon your growth. You have presented your revised professional development session and received feedback from the participants. It is important in professional practice to reflect on that experience.

In 750-words reflect on your experiences. Include the following in your reflection:

· A summary of the presentation, including the feedback you received, and improvements made based on that feedback.

· School-based data and evidence-based research used to substantiate presented strategies and ensure organizational effectiveness.

· How the professional development session increases the capacity of faculty in a way that aligns to the school vision and mission and promotes student learning.

· How technology was used effectively and appropriately to support teaching and learning.

· Next steps you would take as a principal to ensure the skills in the PD are embedded in classroom instruction.

· How you plan to anticipate and assess emerging trends and initiatives to adapt school-based leadership strategies in the future.

· How you prepared for your presentation and your level of confidence during the presentation.

Support your next steps and emerging trends and initiatives with at least 3 scholarly resources.

Past assignment turned in:

PD Digital Presentation and Feedback

Professional learning is a key factor to help the teachers and staff improve according to the modernistic approaches of teaching. Learning has changed with time, which has caused a greater demand on teachers to keep up with the prevalent practices in the field. Leadership is a key factor in developing a professional learning culture in schools (Thomas, et al., 2017). Therefore, my professional development PowerPoint presentation aims to develop and implement a session that can be used by the school staff to share best practices from supplemental learning experiences. After sharing my PowerPoint PD session with my principal, assistant principal, and instructional coach, I received the following feedback with this survey:

1. Was the desired objective clearly defined?	1 2 3 4 5	5
2. Did the content make sense?	1 2 3 4 5	4
3. Will the teachers acquire intended goals and implement them?	1 2 3 4 5	5
4. Is this a PD the principal and leadership team would support and back with financial resources?	1 2 3 4 5	4
5. How important are these skills and knowledge to teachers?	1 2 3 4 5	5
6. Will this PD properly emphasize student-learning and academic achievement?	1 2 3 4 5	5
7. Does this PD align with our school mission that all learners can soar?	1 2 3 4 5	5
8. Will this PD engage teachers and promote collaboration?	1 2 3 4 5	5
9. Can you see a way to easily monitor continuous teacher improvement?	1 2 3 4 5	4
10. Will this PD provide a data tracker to allow student progress monitoring?	1 2 3 4 5	5
Principal	Total score out of 50:	47

1. Was the desired objective clearly defined?	1 2 3 4 5	5
2. Did the content make sense?	1 2 3 4 5	5
3. Will the teachers acquire intended goals and implement them?	1 2 3 4 5	4
4. Is this a PD the principal and leadership team would support and back with financial resources?	1 2 3 4 5	4
5. How important are these skills and knowledge to teachers?	1 2 3 4 5	5
6. Will this PD properly emphasize student-learning and academic achievement?	1 2 3 4 5	5
7. Does this PD align with our school mission that all learners can soar?	1 2 3 4 5	5
8. Will this PD engage teachers and promote collaboration?	1 2 3 4 5	5
9. Can you see a way to easily monitor continuous teacher improvement?	1 2 3 4 5	3
10. Will this PD provide a data tracker to allow student progress monitoring?	1 2 3 4 5	4
Assistant Principal	Total score out of 50:	45

1. Was the desired objective clearly defined?	1 2 3 4 5	5
2. Did the content make sense?	1 2 3 4 5	4
3. Will the teachers acquire intended goals and implement them?	1 2 3 4 5	4
4. Is this a PD the principal and leadership team would support and back with financial resources?	1 2 3 4 5	3
5. How important are these skills and knowledge to teachers?	1 2 3 4 5	4
6. Will this PD properly emphasize student-learning and academic achievement?	1 2 3 4 5	5
7. Does this PD align with our school mission that all learners can soar?	1 2 3 4 5	5
8. Will this PD engage teachers and promote collaboration?	1 2 3 4 5	5
9. Can you see a way to easily monitor continuous teacher improvement?	1 2 3 4 5	3
10. Will this PD provide a data tracker to allow student progress monitoring?	1 2 3 4 5	5
Instructional Coach	Total score out of 50:	43

Analysis of the Feedback Received

Running head: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SESSION 1

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SESSION

After working so hard on a project, it is brutally difficult to receive any negative, yet needful feedback. If nothing else was learned from this experience, it has changed me forever at being so careful with teacher observations. Because of the feedback received, which all three interviewees stated this PD is important, but other PD topics have a higher priority and need. According to Childress (2014), the role of principals is significant in improving professional development instruction and learning by implementing effective teacher education augmentation. Furthermore, principals, additional administrators, and the leadership team have a critical role to play in this regard as they can help maintain the effectiveness of professional learning systems but also keep a positive culture intact. In the future, I will ask my principal and leadership team for three top ideas of what they feel needs to be presented as professional development sessions at our school and then design a course to fit those needs. According to Baum and Krulwich (2017), the school principal, course coordinators, and teachers have to work together to implement the teachings acquired from professional development sessions. This practice will help in mitigating the challenges of implementation of advanced teaching techniques which keep students the center and priority of all learning. As a future principal, I plan on keeping the integrity of this commitment.

References

Baum, K., & Krulwich, D. (2017). A New Approach to PD—and Growing Leaders. Educational Leadership, 74(8), 62–66.

Childress, M. (2014). Building Teacher Capacity. (cover story). Principal, 93(5), 8–12.

Thomas, J., Hutchison, A., Johnson, D., Johnson, K., & Stromer, E. (2017). Planning for Technology Integration in a Professional Learning Community. Reading Teacher, 71(2), 167–175. https://doiwriter.writingcreek.comorg.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.1002/trtr.1604