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understand that there is pressure and agendas coming from central office to do things a
certain way, but teachers would like professional development related to their classrooms
at Fountain Rock Elementary.
When commenting on when professional development should occur, teachers
feelings differ. Some feel as though professional development should not occur during
Classroom Focused Instructional Planning (CFIP) meetings, which is where most of it
occurs at Fountain Rock. One response wants it to happen within the teacher workday.
That would leave the thirty (30) minutes between when students leave and teachers are
contractually allowed to leave.
Professional development should definitely play a part in teacher evaluation for a
multitude of reasons. First, at its core, education is a process that has no culmination.
Teachers should hold this to be true and subscribe to being life long learners. Second,
professional development is an important tool in developing staff to meet the vision of
schools, counties, districts, and states. Professional Development is the vehicle of change.
You can affect positive change through the development of your staff. One way to
ensure that teachers understand that it is a very important aspect of their craft, is to assess
how committed they are to learning information related to teaching. All teachers in the
survey agree.
One teacher said, I don't think they should be held accountable for PD that they are
forced to attend. I believe that many teachers grow and continue to develop on their own
as they research blogs, other county websites, as well as seek help from teachers in other
school buildings for ideas and help. A lot of what teachers do to become better for their
students is not documented on paper.