This week I've spent a lot of my time creating a professional development plan for my fellow teachers at McDonald Junior High. I would love to get all the math teachers on board flipping their classrooms and eventually broadening out to the other subjects/classes. This past year I've flipped my math class and I feel that I've had a lot of success doing so. So, my focus has turned toward the teachers to get them up and running in the flipped world.
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Teachers spend roughly 10% of the school year in professional development and regardless of these efforts teachers are not improving at a substantial rate from year to year as expected (TNTP, 2015). Why is this? There is no definitive answer, but the professional development that we are currently using is not helping. We say we are helping teachers but are we really? Teachers are being put in professional development that does not apply to their subject or specific grade level and they feel that is wasting their time, therefore, not being actively involved.
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Jill HobbsMatthew 6:34 'Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.' Archives
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