School Professional Development Analysis

School Professional Development Analysis
As a school leader, you will be involved in planning and evaluating your school’s professional development (PD). You may be completely or partially responsible for creating your school’s PD plan. This includes planning and delivering specific PD, as well as implementing and evaluating the effectiveness of the PD. In this assignment, you will have the opportunity to evaluate a professional development plan.
Analyze and evaluate the professional development program in your school or another school of your choice.
In a 550-word essay, address the following:
· How the professional development program increases the capacity of staff in a way that aligns to the school vision and mission, and promotes data-driven, student-centered learning. Support your response with specific examples.
· The principal’s roles and actions in terms of the development of the classroom environment and teachers’ instructional abilities.
· The teachers’ roles in the development of the PD program.
· How the professional development program is aligned to the school’s Continuous Improvement Plan. Support your response with 1-2 specific examples.
· How the PD program emphasizes research-based instructional/best practices .
· How research-based/best practices are used for evaluating the PD program.
Support your review with at least 3-5 scholarly resources. APA. RUBRIC:
(15) Discussion and examples of how the professional development program increases the capacity of the staff in a way that aligns to school vision and mission and promotes data-drive, student-centered learning is thorough and includes substantial supporting details.
(15) Discussion of the principal’s roles and actions in terms of the development of the classroom environment and teachers’ instructional abilities is accurate and demonstrates best practices.
(15) Discussion of the teachers’ roles in the development of the PD program is accurate and demonstrates best practices.
(15) Explanation and examples of how the professional development program aligns to the school’s Continuous Improvement Plan is thorough and includes substantial supporting details.
(15) Explanation of how the PD program emphasizes research-based instructional/best practices is thorough and includes substantial supporting details.
(15) Discussion of how research-based/best practices are used for evaluating the PD program are thorough and include substantial relevant details.
(10) Sources