PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT BROCHURE GUIDELINES
Use a brochure development program such as Microsoft Publisher to develop a Professional Development Brochure to train teachers in one of these areas: Differentiation or Co-teaching
Definition of Professional Development (PD) for Teachers:
Professional development — formal in-service training to upgrade the content knowledge and pedagogical skills of teachers — is widely viewed as an important means of improving teaching and learning (Quint, J. 2011).
As a special education teacher, you are the resource many teachers need to understand how to implement concepts and strategies to teach students in the general education classroom. You will develop a PD brochure for a professional development session you could conduct in your school.
Your finished product will be evaluated on the following: (50 points)
- The PD brochure has specific and measureable goals for the professional development. (5 points)
- How will you support learners at various stages of implementation? (eg. Some teachers have had training on differentiation but never implemented this instructional skill; others have implemented the skill; a few have never had training and do not want to use this strategy in their classroom.) (5 points)
- What will the teachers be responsible for prior to, during and after the training? (5 points)
- Helpful website and videos. (5 points)
- Research-based definition of the topic you have selected. (5 points)
- How will you use collaboration and teams, as well as group problem solving? (5 points)
- Examples of different strategies the teachers can use in their classrooms. (5 points)
- Grammar and sentence structure (5 points)
- Creativity (Use of graphics, cohesive to help find and understand the information) (5 points)
- General Information (date of training, location, #CEU hours, trainer name, etc.) (5 points)
Remember a brochure is front and back and has three tri-fold pages on each side (total of six sides).
