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CRITICAL ISSUES |
DESCRIPTIVE QUESTIONS |
| 1 |
Developing policies and advocacy for quality staff development |
CONTEXT: What policies and resources are necessary to support effective staff development?
PROCESS: What are successful advocacy strategies for influencing effective staff development policies and resource allocations?
CONTENT: What are critical elements of effective staff development policies at local, state, and federal levels? |
| 2 |
Developing school and district leaders who support professional learning |
CONTEXT: In what ways do the structures and culture of the organization develop and support leadership for professional learning for all educators?
PROCESS: In what ways do leaders learn effective strategies and skills to support professional learning? How does technology assist in the development and support of leadership?
CONTENT: What research-based knowledge and skills do leaders use to design and implement professional learning? |
| 3 |
Using professional learning to close the student achievement gap |
CONTEXT: How do the structures and culture of the organization support the closing of the achievement gap?
PROCESS: What are effective ways to learn and apply the knowledge and skills needed to close the achievement gap? How does technology assist adults in designing strategies to close the achievement gap?
CONTENT: What are the research-based knowledge, skills,and dispositions educators need to close the achievement gap? |
| 4 |
Using standards to improve learning for all students |
CONTEXT: How do the structures and culture of the organization support the application of standards to improve learning for all?
PROCESS: What professional learning processes are used to support the application of standards? How does the use of technology support the application of standards?
CONTENT: What are critical elements of standards that are used to raise achievement and improve learning? |
| 5 |
Using professional learning to facilitate the improvement of low-performing schools |
CONTEXT: What structures and cultures support the improvement of low-performing schools?
PROCESS: In what ways do educators learn the research-based content and skills necessary to improve the low performance of students in these schools? How could technology be used to enhance the improvement of low-performing schools?
CONTENT: What are the critical knowledge and skills educators use to improve low-performing schools? |
| 6 |
Enhancing the quality of teaching |
CONTEXT: How do the structures and culture of the organization support the improvement of the quality of teaching?
PROCESS: What professional learning processes improve the quality of teaching? How can the use of technology positively affect the quality of teaching?
CONTENT: What research-based knowledge and skills are critical to improve the quality of teaching? |
| 7 |
Assessing the effects of professional learning |
CONTEXT: What structures and culture are necessary to support the evaluation of professional learning for the improvement of student learning?
PROCESS: What are effective processes for linking staff development and student learning? How does the use of technology assist in the evaluation of professional learning?
CONTENT: What staff development designs result in improved student learning? |
| 8 |
Exploring the emerging issues in professional learning |
CONTEXT: What staff development structure and culture issues are emerging?
PROCESS: What significant professional learning process issues are emerging?
CONTENT: What staff development knowledge, skills, and issues are emerging? |
| 9 |
Learning and implementing the key concepts and skills of effective staff development |
CONTEXT: What are the structures and the culture of schools and districts that impact effective staff development design and implementation?
PROCESS: What are effective ways to design and implement powerful staff development? How can technology contribute to fundamentally sound staff development practices?
CONTENT: What are the primary knowledge and skills for powerful staff development design and implementation? |
