{"id":263,"date":"2010-11-15T04:03:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T09:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adriennemichetti.com\/blog\/?p=263"},"modified":"2010-11-15T04:03:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T09:03:44","slug":"practice-pd-in-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/15\/practice-pd-in-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice: PD in context"},"content":{"rendered":"

Practice, then, both shapes and supports learning. We wouldn’t need to labor this point so heavily were it not that unenlightened teaching and training often pulls in the opposite direction. -Brown & Duguid, 2000, p. 129<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Far too much teacher professional development happens in a way that is isolated from the very practice of teaching. We go away to conferences, or an “expert” is brought in to our school and regular classes cease for a few days so we can all go into a separate place to “learn.”<\/p>\n

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… all of which is fine and good (don’t tell me you’ve never breathed a sigh of relief knowing that you won’t have to teach two days this week), but if learning is to be authentic, shouldn’t it happen in context<\/a>? So why are we learning how to be competent, well-rounded professionals outside the contexts of our classrooms<\/a>? Where is the professional development that involves being in my classroom<\/em>? Where is the professional development that happens alongside — or as part of — my teaching?<\/p>\n

Where is the social learning that happens within the context of a teaching practice?<\/p>\n

I’m by no means advocating we get rid of in-house professional development or stand-alone conferences altogether. I just wonder: what would the professional development landscape look like if we were consistently involved in learning that involved our teaching practice?<\/p>\n

What would our teaching practice look like?<\/p>\n

What would our learning look like?<\/p>\n

What would our students’ learning<\/em><\/strong> look like?<\/p>\n

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Brown, J.S., & Duguid, P. (2000). The social life of information<\/em>. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press. <\/span><\/p>\n

teachers at seminar<\/a> by Lief (Bryne, Norway)<\/a>
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