TTT#324 Session at NCTE - Open Learning: Empowering Teachers Through Professional Development - Chair, Karen Fasimpaur 11.17.12

Enjoy this special episode of TTT, recorded in Las Vagas. We live-streamed our session and this is a recording of that event. Here's the program description:

This panel will discuss innovative models of professional development that include peer collaboration, self-directed learning, active involvement, and learning communities. We will give models for using social media for professional activities and we'll share a wide variety of resources and brainstorm how to involve teachers in driving their own personal learning to improve student learning and the profession as a whole.

• Chair: Karen Fasimpaur [15] K12 Open Ed, Portal, Arizona -
• Speaker: Paul Allison [16] The Bronx Academy Senior High School, New York -
• Speaker: Harry Brake [17] American School Foundation Librarian, Mexico City, Mexico -
• Speaker: Christina Cantrill [18] National Writing Project, Berkeley, California -
• Speaker: Paul Oh [19] National Writing Project, Berkeley, California -

Karen's reflections and notes, posted on her blog K12 Open Ed [20]on November 26, 2012:

Last week, I had the privilege of facilitating a panel at NCTE called “Open Learning: Empowering Teachers Through Professional Development.”

Anyone who knows me knows that I have become a big believer in open models of professional learning through spaces like Twitter [21], P2PU [22], TTT [23], Digital Is [24], and others. This session was all about that. (Slides below. Also, we live streamed the session, thanks to Paul Allison [25], and the video is here [26].)

To me, these new models of professional learning are all about value, openness, self-direction, agency, and authenticity. It’s time to reject PD that doesn’t achieve these goals.

At the end of the session, we asked everyone to choose a few words that summarized what they thought the future of professional learning should be. Here they are.

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