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PD Teacher Survey
Question: 
"With your teaching experience. What do you expect from professional development?  (Write from your heart)"

“I am a 1st year teacher, so PD is most helpful when it is simple and applicable.  I want to teach kids how to THINK and REASON. Data is great and helpful, but it is not everything.  Looking at student work in everything. It tells you so much more than data ever will.

I expect PD to be refreshing and encouraging to my practice,, not full of protocols, meetings and more to do list items.”                                 Teacher 1

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“If I am to be honest, I would prefer a PD that is research-based and not just another “here’s a new software to use to track students” or umbrella methods that take time to master. I would prefer a PD that can easily digested.  As the name suggest, there are professional DEVELOPMENTS. It will take some time to be comfortable to use in the classroom so the more time we have to learn about best practices on specific methods, the more likely it would be used in the classroom.” 
                                            Teacher 2
“Number one I would expect PD to address my needs. Help me become more effective teacher. Solve the issues I face during instruction (in class or outside of class).  Help me lower my work load.  Being an effective teacher is the way I connect to my students better, effective teaching methodology, and more”                                             Teacher 3
“When I think of professional development, I think of teachers learning from other teachers.  I expect to be fully immersed in the lesson as if I was a student with hands on experience. Then given time to come up with a plan to implement into the classroom.  We speak so often as educators about best practices in the classroom, but when we attend professional development, it is a sit and get… the opposite of how we are supposed to teach students.  I want to see how it works and get to experience it myself. I want to have the opportunity to collaborate with my colleagues about what I have learned.  I want to be able to try it out in my classroom right away and have multiple opportunities after that to discuss what we have learned. It should be ongoing.”     
                                                             Teacher 4
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