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• Get staff members excited about learning. • Explore successful new approaches. • Promote transference of new knowledge and skills to the workplace. • Provide flexibility and customization to your local situation.
Non-stop, Internet access to ASCD’s archive of video clips for ongoing professional development in a professional learning community. Imagine your state, district, or school being able to provide ongoing, collaborative professional development for professional learning groups with videos and other content related to research-based school improvement. PD In Focus makes it easier and more effective to do this with an extensive library of video clips showing research-based teaching practices in action.
Support your professional learning community Perfect for professional learning communities, PD In Focus makes it easy and affordable to support ongoing teacher growth with videos of effective teaching practice. Each video provides a powerful example of a strategy or concept that is essential to accomplishing the goals of accountability-based education. This constant connection to on-demand video energizes staff members and makes theories on instructional improvement come alive.
Easy to start up and use A familiar search function lets users scan the video library for exact examples, based on topic, grade level, subject area, classroom type, and more. Then users can collaborate around the videos, rate them, and keep an online journal of your observations. An online host helps provide background and context for the videos. Plus, teacher leaders, principals, staff developers, and other PD leaders can set up learning groups, make assignments, and monitor group and individual activities and progress.
New channel on implementing RTI All PD In Focus videos are organized into channels guided by widely recognized experts. And now there’s a new PD In Focus channel on implementing RTI in secondary schools with video clips and other resources that help foster deep understanding what schools do to help struggling students entering high school. This new channel joins the other great PD In Focus channels: • Differentiated Instruction with Carol Ann Tomlinson • ESL/ELL with Virginia Rojas • Literacy Strategies with Donna Ogle • The Art and Science of Teaching with Robert J. Marzano • Never Work Harder Than Your Students with Robyn R. Jackson • Formative Assessment with Doug Fisher and Susan M. Brookhart • The Brain and Learning with Pat Wolfe and Eric Jensen • Enhancing Professional Practice with Charlotte Danielson • Curriculum Mapping with Heidi Hayes Jacobs • Giving Effective Feedback with Susan M. Brookhart • High Schools at Work with Joe DiMartino • Best Practices in Action with Margery Ginsberg and Bonnie Benard, plus Cooperative Learning and The Whole Child AWARD WINNING PD In Focus has received these prestigious industry awards:
More than 60, userfriendly, self-paced online courses or modules synthesizing the best work of ASCD’s authors. Imagine learning when you are at your best—and where you learn best. Imagine being able to revisit content and video demonstrations beyond a single professional development or classroom session. With ASCD’s PD Online, state departments of education, education service centers, school administrators, and college faculty can choose the specific topics to meet a particular teacher, classroom, school, university, or district need. Learn directly from ASCD’s expert authors PD Online capitalizes on technology’s strengths to make it easier and more affordable for educators to continue and reinforce their learning across time. Learning modules reflecting the work of ASCD’s most widely recognized authors clearly connect practice with research. Each PD Online course follows a six-lesson learning design that • I ntroduces you to a concept explored by a prominent ASCD author. • E ngages you in a blend of media-rich learning featuring experts and practitioners. • L ets you access additional reading materials to expand your knowledge. • Allows you to revisit content and video applications as often as you like. • P rovides opportunities for you to collaborate with colleagues through online discussion. •A ssesses your understanding of the content through an integrated Learning Management System (LMS).
Flexible and differentiated PD Online features Administrator and Learner (student) levels to help differentiate and manage how the courses are used. Administrators can add or edit new learning groups and students. They control courses in their groups, and students enter their courses through a passwordcontrolled portal. This flexible, personalized tool makes PD Online ideal for a wide range of applications:
• College faculty can use PD Online to supplement or provide coursework for college credit in degree or certification programs. • PD Online can be completed independently through a self-paced format or used as a catalyst for an ongoing, collaborative group experience— either virtual or faceto- face.
Measureable and accountable Assessments at the beginning and end of each PD Online course provide learners with opportunities to access prior knowledge about a topic and measure individual progress in grasping new material. PD Online’s integrated LMS helps monitor learning progress at the Administrator and Learner levels. Tracking of individual student progress is available at all levels. Plus, PD Online courses are SCORM compliant, so schools have the flexibility to use their own in-house LMS.
Eight new courses • An Introduction to Teaching English Language Learners • Assessing Language Ability in Young Adults and Adults • Content-Based Instruction for English Language Learners • Developing Grammar Skills in English Language Learners
• S tate, district, and school administrators can use PD Online to tailor and target professional development for groups or individual teachers.
• Updated Edition: Understanding by Design®: An Introduction
• S taff development coordinators can use PD Online to bolster school-based or district programs with research-based content from ASCD authors.
• Response to Intervention: An Introduction
• The Art and Science of Teaching • Formative Assessment: Deepening Understanding
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