Summary of Staff Development (PD Feedback)

via Lynda Simard (SVRSS Teacher):

"Summary of Staff Development

Name: Lynda Simard
Session: Grade 9 & 10 Math Inservice by Pearson
Location: Regina Date: Oct. 23/08

I would recommend Trevor Brown. He can be contacted at tbrown@edu.yorku.ca.

Summary:
The session was broken up between 3 speakers. The first was Trevor Brown. He spoke about using problem solving to catch students attention to a topic. After speaking with Carol Larson who saw him for a whole day, I think he was just getting started when his time was up. I’d like to hear the end of his “story”. I’d like to see where he takes the problem solving to and how he incorporates that into a whole program. One lady commented that she saw him for a 5-day session that really painted the whole picture. The other two speakers had some good ideas that I could incorporate today, but they weren’t dynamic speakers and I’m not sure I would want to attend any additional session with them.

I will be sharing this information with other math teachers on staff as we plan for our new curriculum in the Grade 9 and 10 areas.

I am going to start to incorporate relevant problems that will allow all students to gain or share some understanding of the topic as an introduction or summary of a topic."

Thanks loads to Lynda for the effort put forth to create this summary.

Summary of Staff Development

Summary of Staff Development

Name: Kirsten Carter, Ecole Swan River South School, Ryan Maksymchuk, Swan Valley Regional Secondary School, Janet Martin, Taylor School

Session: Microsoft Certified Peer Coaching© Facilitator Training
Delivered by:
Puget Sound Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology

Location: Princess Avenue Campus, Red River Community College
Hampton Inn & Suites
Winnipeg, MB

Date(s): August 21 to 25, 2006 and April 17 to 20, 2007,
dates inclusive

Would I recommend this speaker for our Division?

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Details: For a week in August 2006, as well as follow-up training for four days in April, 2007 to finish the certification process, we attended Microsoft Peer Coaching Facilitator Training in Winnipeg, MB.

Our time was spent receiving specific training on the Peer Coaching Process, as well as learning how effective Peer Coaching can be as a school-based Professional Development Model as well as its effectiveness in relation to current approaches to school-improvement.

As of the posting of this entry, our plan is to begin to use our new skills to develop The Peer Coaching Model in Swan Valley School Division in September of 2007. Our roles will be different in each school, but our common purpose will be to assist with the integration of technology foundation skills with both best teaching practices and lesson design.