In this task, you will identify a curricular or instructive need within your school district and plan a professional development opportunity to address that need.
A. Identify a curricular or instructional need within your school or district.
1. Describe the existing data that helped you to identify the need from part A.
2. Discuss two specific examples of how addressing this need will improve school effectiveness.
B. Create an outline for a specific professional development opportunity related to the need identified in part A by doing the following:
1. Identify the outcomes that you seek to achieve and explain how they relate to the need identified in part A.
2. Describe how three principles of Knowles’s adult learning theory will be incorporated into the professional development opportunity.
a. Explain how each of the three principles from part B2 will address the needs of your adult learners.
3. Explain how the professional development opportunity will provide coaching and expert support. Include specific examples.
4. Explain the new knowledge and skills learners will obtain from the professional development opportunity.
5. Explain how learners will be able to provide feedback regarding the effectiveness of the professional development opportunity. Include any tools used to collect feedback in your response, as well as the timeframe in which the feedback will be collected.
6. Explain how the professional development opportunity will offer learners the chance to reflect on what they have learned. Include specific examples.
7. Explain how the professional development opportunity outcomes can be reinforced over the academic year. Include specific examples.
8. Explain how you will evaluate whether you achieved your outcomes.
C. Acknowledge sources, using APA-formatted in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
D. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
