Key Elements of Staff Development

What makes a successful Professional Staff Development program? These souces outline the best practices in use across the professional development community.

•Critical Issue: Providing Professional Development for Effective Technology Use by Ginger Rodriguez, NCREL. Rodriquez and colleagues present innovative methods for delivering technology based training to teachers. Several practicing educators share their expertise as well.

•Delivering Relevant Staff Developmentby Lorie Jackson, "In an ideal world, teachers arrive at staff training sessions well rested, eager to learn, with easy access to the resources they'll need to implement what they learn. Of course, schools are rarely ideal places. So, how do you, a K-12 in-service staff developer or administrator, provide relevant staff development in the real world? Teacher training expert Lorrie Jackson offers advice on how you can make your training sessions both relevant and effective."-Education World

•Designing Staff Development for the Information Age by Jamie McKenzie, staffdevelop.org. McKenzie brings hope to planners by outlining what we know works in Ed Tech staff development.