Professional Development: Who Needs It

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Professional DevelopmentWho Needs It?

• Lisa Perry
• National PE/PA Manager

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HSP Framework

• All teachers who teach physical education receive
  annual professional development on effective
  practices for physical education for a minimum of
  eight contact hours

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Professional Development

• Refers to skills required for maintaining a
  specific career path
• Training to keep current with changing technology
  and practices in a profession or in the concept
  of lifelong learning
• Developing and implementing a program of
  professional development is often left up to
  individual teachers

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PDWhy Me?

• Times are a changin
• Improve PE program
• Improve teacher skills knowledge

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PDWhy Me?

• New technology
• Focus on academics
• Best practices
• Standards
• Assessment

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Professional Development

• Formal programs
• Self-study
• Networking with colleagues
• Peer observation

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Formal Programs

• Local district
• State AHPERD/state DOE
• Conventions
• Special Events
• AAHPERD
• National Board for Professional Teaching Standards

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Self Study

• Professional Journals
• Online Courses

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Networking with Colleagues

• Dialogue Classes
• Department/District PE meetings
• Learning Communities

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Peer Observation

• Reassures and supports you, particularly if you
  are new to teaching, as you implement new and
  unfamiliar learning and teaching practices and
  strategies
• Allows you to check your own perceptions of and
  feelings about your teaching against the
  observations of others when used in conjunction
  with other forms of evaluation such as student
  feedback and self-reflection, this can provide a
  more accurate representation of how effectively
  you are implementing your learning and teaching
  philosophy
• Provides critical insights into your learning and
  teaching practice, revealing aspects of it of
  which you might be unaware

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Peer Observation

• Helps you address specific areas of your teaching
  that you feel are problematic
• Provides a mechanism for formal evaluation of
  learning and teaching innovations
• Creates a learning environment in which you and
  your colleagues can learn from each other as
  observers and observees
• Promotes an environment in which open and public
  discussion of learning and teaching is
  encouraged.

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Some Questions

• What have you learned about PE lately?
• What areas are interested in learning more about?
• What professional development will you
  participate in this semester?

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Resources

• NASPE Physical Best http//www.aahperd.org/naspe/p
  hysicalbest/
• National Board for Professional Teaching
  Standards http//www.nbpts.org/
• University of New South Wales Peer Observation
  http//www.ltu.unsw.edu.au/content/teaching_suppor
  t/peer_observation.cfm?ss0

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Contact Information
Lisa Perry National PE/PA Manager PO Box
413 Kremmling, CO 80459 970-724-0088
office lisa.perry_at_healthiergeneration.org