tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post7561733736881530789..comments2023-10-26T04:38:06.297-04:00Comments on TeachPaperless: I Don't Want More Professional DevelopmentAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091328599818819777noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-46241337269620127312011-04-28T04:12:48.093-04:002011-04-28T04:12:48.093-04:00Love what you have written here. I sent this link ...Love what you have written here. I sent this link out to my colleagues and it resonated deeply.Cathie Howehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09460308867261387886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-34043291687218446542011-04-22T09:33:12.761-04:002011-04-22T09:33:12.761-04:00Well said! I am so tired of the same old strategie...Well said! I am so tired of the same old strategies being repackaged and then required as "professional development." So, we end up being forced to sit through things we have already learned instead of being given the freedom to explore topics on our own.Jeanie in NChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00011065472810964601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-89590861154707700142011-04-21T10:19:52.607-04:002011-04-21T10:19:52.607-04:00I like to term "professional development"...I like to term "professional development" if it means leveraging what a teacher knows and can do to student achievement. I've said more about this topic here: http://bnleez.com/?p=1958Benjamin Stewarthttp://bnleez.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-22180517283676289042011-04-19T18:43:19.324-04:002011-04-19T18:43:19.324-04:00I don't even like the term, "professional...I don't even like the term, "professional development." Maybe it could be replaced by "professional learning" (because there are still things I need and want to learn to become better at my work), or perhaps it's just adult learning. Whatever we call it, I think the best "PD" is personal, social, and voluntary. Thanks for a great post.steelepiercehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10451313203970389149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-71210991794478812942011-04-19T16:59:13.038-04:002011-04-19T16:59:13.038-04:00Maybe what you don't want (or need) is profess...Maybe what you don't want (or need) is professional development that sucks. Something is terribly wrong when a 30 veteran of the classroom says they've only been to 2 professional development sessions that were valuable. Time after time teachers admit many PD days are utterly worthless. Some people who aren't teachers are devoted to serving teachers...because it's who YOU serve that matters most. Some of us believe we may be able to help serve teachers. We may not be teachers. We just believe in those of you who are. Over 30 years building businesses brought me to a place where I wanted to serve those of you who serve our children. It's a labor of love that began when my two (now grown children) entered their own classrooms, as teachers. Every group, in any space, is well served by connecting with others within the tribe, but sometimes bits of wisdom can come from beyond the fences.Randy Cantrellhttp://leaningtowardwisdom.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-18329222405864278622011-04-19T09:34:23.282-04:002011-04-19T09:34:23.282-04:00I'm not sure "development" should be...I'm not sure "development" should be the term we use, either way. Social engagement? Yes. Social interaction? Yes. I'll even allow for a term like "professional growth" since it borrows from a more natural / organic semantic environment. However, the term "development" seems to be business and political oriented.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10956056168256756705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-947531613750772872011-04-19T06:56:13.644-04:002011-04-19T06:56:13.644-04:00I am not sure how many of the readers here have ev...I am not sure how many of the readers here have ever been on Second Life. If you have, you may have noticed what your avatar does when you log off...the avatars body goes limp and their head dips to the right and their chin rests on their shoulder.<br /><br />Well everyone here seems to be in a Teacher Second Life while reading this blog. When we leave here and go to school our personas do exactly what a second life avatar does---we go limp and turn our heads away from the reality around us. <br /><br />And the reason we do it, we are afraid of losing our jobs. And it is a founded fear. If you do not go to sleep and say the same things in faculty meetings, professional development or training sessions, in the faculty room, in meetings with principal, or out on the playground or in the lunch room, that you espouse here, you very well may get fired. School is about control. This blog is about liberation!We all talk liberation but are we willing to walk liberation.<br /><br />Every revolution has it casualties. If you really want a revolution it may be you. It has been me.Normanhttp://sunrisenorm.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-46526286744834813392011-04-19T02:59:48.286-04:002011-04-19T02:59:48.286-04:00I basically agree about the nature of personal and...I basically agree about the nature of personal and interpersonal development. <br /><br />Except I find that the social networking isn't enough for me. If I tweet or post an idea, all I get back is 'Great idea!' I get very little useful criticism, and I get the impression that offering that criticism would not be seen as favorable. We're all too polite to each other. We don't challenge each other. For instance:<br /><br />"There is no such thing as perfect grammar. There is no such thing as a right answer.<br />There are only relationships between things."<br /><br />That is, I suppose, true. But there is more effective grammar and less effective grammar; there are better answers and not very useful or dreadfully inaccurate answers; there are interesting, useful relationships and superficial or artificial relationships. If we are going to do this, we should draw the distinctions between these and ask serious questions about what we're doing. There needs to be some tension to it.mn kilmerhttp://mnkilmer.com/whatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-57394552063644001302011-04-19T02:43:29.641-04:002011-04-19T02:43:29.641-04:00I couldn't agree with you more. Lately I have ...I couldn't agree with you more. Lately I have been really annoyed by the term training, but you have made me realize that even professional development is not the right term either. <br /><br />Those of us out here on blogs and networks are creating something. Something social. I will not recap what you said so eloquently. Thanks for this sharing with admin now!Jabiz Raisdana (Intrepid Teacher)http://www.jabizraisdana.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-29353120330785744042011-04-18T23:09:30.645-04:002011-04-18T23:09:30.645-04:00You had me at "I Don't Want More Professi...You had me at "I Don't Want More Professional Development." :)jannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-87200879790528090172011-04-18T20:53:23.087-04:002011-04-18T20:53:23.087-04:00Wow. So smart. Love this point of view. Please mak...Wow. So smart. Love this point of view. Please make sure all administrators read this.DB Stewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15484034493143850659noreply@blogger.com