Comments on: What Does Bad PD Look Like? http://kpruitt.edublogs.org/2007/08/15/what-does-bad-pd-look-like/ How do we get there? Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:56:11 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: pattyoflynn http://kpruitt.edublogs.org/2007/08/15/what-does-bad-pd-look-like/comment-page-1/#comment-100 pattyoflynn Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:14:30 +0000 http://kpruitt.edublogs.org/2007/08/15/what-does-bad-pd-look-like/#comment-100 I can relate, I just went through a rather painful error-filled technology PD experience myself (not through my district though). I'd like to speak in particular about #4 in your post. I have worked with fantastic manufacturer reps but usually they have limitations because they are not actually teaching and using this stuff in the classroom. I think the extended teachers-teaching-teachers model usually works much better, and by extended I mean that it isn't a one-shot 30 minute presentation. The techie teachers may be good to go after one session but many will require followups. And even if everyone on staff picked up how to set up their gradebooks, disaster is bound to strike the first time that grades need to be uploaded for report cards. Follow-ups are KEY! I can relate, I just went through a rather painful error-filled technology PD experience myself (not through my district though).

I’d like to speak in particular about #4 in your post. I have worked with fantastic manufacturer reps but usually they have limitations because they are not actually teaching and using this stuff in the classroom. I think the extended teachers-teaching-teachers model usually works much better, and by extended I mean that it isn’t a one-shot 30 minute presentation. The techie teachers may be good to go after one session but many will require followups. And even if everyone on staff picked up how to set up their gradebooks, disaster is bound to strike the first time that grades need to be uploaded for report cards. Follow-ups are KEY!

]]> By: bcarrera http://kpruitt.edublogs.org/2007/08/15/what-does-bad-pd-look-like/comment-page-1/#comment-99 bcarrera Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:48:22 +0000 http://kpruitt.edublogs.org/2007/08/15/what-does-bad-pd-look-like/#comment-99 Bad PD to me is too much talking and not enough hands on. We had someone come and demonstrate an computer grade book-attendance book. They ran through a 30 minute presentation showing us all the bells and buzzers, and then the principal told us all to go out there and use it. Later that day, not a single person could figure out how to even enter kids names and grades. But we got PDed. Bad PD to me is too much talking and not enough hands on. We had someone come and demonstrate an computer grade book-attendance book. They ran through a 30 minute presentation showing us all the bells and buzzers, and then the principal told us all to go out there and use it. Later that day, not a single person could figure out how to even enter kids names and grades. But we got PDed.

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