Learning Forward PA

Professional Learning Assessment

The questions on this assessment are aligned to Learning Forward’s Standards for Professional Learning. Use the Standards as your note-taking guide during the program to help you develop your plan. When you are finished with this assessment, you will have created an action plan aligned to the Standards for Professional Learning based upon the content you’ve learned in today’s session.

The Action Plan will need to be handed in for you and your team to receive

Act 48 credit hours.

“Educators’ use of the standards indicates their commitment to effective professional learning. Using the standards to plan, facilitate, and evaluate professional learning heightens educators’ quality of learning and performance. Increased educator effectiveness then makes possible a shift from current reality to the preferred outcomes of enhanced student learning results—a goal to which all educators subscribe.” (p.3, Hirsh and Hord, 2012)

EVALUATE, FACILITATE, and PLAN

Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students…

Standard 1. …occurs within LEARNING COMMUNITIES committed to
continuous improvement, collective responsibility, and goal alignment.
Evaluate:
What were the Key Ideas learned during this professional development session that will increase your effectiveness and results for all students that will occur within your learning communities committed to:
Continuous Improvement? / Collective Responsibility? / Goal Alignment?
Knowing this, record ideas below that could be synthesized with the answers from the rest of the Standards and then placed into a measurable action plan. Begin to think about Performance Measures from which samples of student achievement data will be collected to determine the impact of your plan.

Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students…

Standard 2. … requires skillful leaders who develop capacity, advocate, and create support systems for professional learning.
Evaluate:
What were the Key Ideas learned during this professional development session that will increase your effectiveness and results for all students that will require skillful leaders who:
-develop capacity for professional learning regarding this content? / -advocate for professional learning regarding this content? / -create support systems regarding this content?
Knowing this, record ideas below that could be synthesized with the answers from the rest of the Standards and then placed into a measurable action plan. Begin to think about Performance Measures from which samples of student achievement data will be collected to determine the impact of your plan.

Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students…

Standard 3. … requires prioritizing, monitoring, and coordinating resources for educator learning.
Evaluate:
What were the Key Ideas learned during this professional development session that will increase your effectiveness and results for all students that will require resources for educator learning to be…
-prioritized to support the content learned ? / -monitored to support the content learned? / -coordinated to support the content learned?
Knowing this, record ideas below that could be synthesized with the answers from the rest of the Standards and then placed into a measurable action plan. Begin to think about Performance Measures from which samples of student achievement data will be collected to determine the impact of your plan.

Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students…

Standard 4. … uses a variety of sources and types of student, educator, and system data to plan, assess, and evaluate professional learning.
Evaluate:
What were the Key Ideas learned during this professional development session that will increase your effectiveness and results for all students using a variety of sources and types of student, educator, and system data to:
-plan professional learning ? / -assess professional learning? / -evaluate professional learning?
Knowing this, record ideas below that could be synthesized with the answers from the rest of the Standards and then placed into a measurable action plan. Begin to think about Performance Measures from which samples of the many types data will be collected to measure the impact of the professional learning you may put in place to inform the rest of your colleagues of what was learned in this professional learning session.

Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students…

Standard 5. … integrates theories, research, and models of human learning to achieve its intended outcomes.
Evaluate:
What were the Key Ideas learned during this professional development session that will increase your effectiveness and results for all students that will require learning designs for educator learning to …
-integrate theories of human learning ? / -integrate research on human learning? / -integrate models of human learning?
Knowing this, record ideas below that could be synthesized with the answers from the rest of the Standards and then placed into a measurable action plan. Begin to think about Performance Measures from which samples of student achievement data will be collected to determine the impact of your plan.

Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students…

Standard 6. … applies research on change and sustains support for implementation of professional learning for long-term change.
Evaluate:
What were the Key Ideas learned during this professional development session that will increase your effectiveness and results for all students that will support implementation by…
-applying change research? / -developing sustained implementation? / -providing opportunities for constructive feedback?
Knowing this, record ideas below that could be synthesized with the answers from the rest of the Standards and then placed into a measurable action plan. Begin to think about Performance Measures from which samples of student achievement data will be collected to determine the impact of your plan.

Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students…

Standard 7. … aligns its outcomes with educator performance and student curriculum standards.
Evaluate:
What were the Key Ideas learned during this professional development session that will increase your effectiveness and results for all students that aligned its outcomes to…
-meet educator performance standards? / -address learning outcomes? / -build coherence?
Knowing this, record ideas below that could be synthesized with the answers from the rest of the Standards and then placed into a measurable action plan. Begin to think about Performance Measures from which samples of student achievement data will be collected to determine the impact of your plan.

TEAM ACTION PLAN

Pre-Planning Tool

Use this tool to synthesize what you have learned.

STANDARD / Our present practice… / Our desired outcome…
Learning Communities
Leadership
Resources
Data
Learning Designs
Implementation
Outcomes

Record your ideas for goals and how you might measure them below:

Action Plan

Name: Position:

Address:

Email: Phone:

PPID#

Goal: (Must be written in measurable terms and include Performance Measures from which samples of student achievement data will be collected to determine effectiveness.)
Action Steps:
How will LEARNING COMMUNITIES be utilized?
What role will LEADERSHIP serve?
What RESOURCES will be needed?
What DATA will you use to measure your goal?
What LEARNING DESIGNS will you use to keep staff learning in an ongoing manner?
How will you IMPLEMENT this plan to assure long term change?
What are your defined student learning OUTCOMES going to be?

Record anything else you would like us to know related to your action plan.