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Professional Development for Teachers Initiative

Authorization (N.J.A.C. 6A:9-15)

2010-2011 Professional Development Planning

The New Jersey Department of Education has released newly designed professional development planning templates and processes, developed in 2009 in conjunction with the Professional Teaching Standards Board, the advisory body to the Commissioner.  Based on current research on teacher efficacy and best practices, the plans have been designed to facilitate both school planning and district level planning.  Each plan includes detailed, user-friendly guidance to help professional development committee members, administrators, teachers and other members of the school community understand the elements of high quality professional development.  The  2010-2011 planning and implementation process should build direct connections between what teachers learn as they improve their practice and how students achieve success.

For districts with one school only, the school will submit one plan, not two, and should use the school-based plan template and guidance.

The school-based and district-based plans both have separate templates to be used when typing the narrative sections. There has been a delay in posting these templates. Until they are available, please copy and paste the questions from the guidance document. When the templates are posted, you can copy the work you’ve done into the appropriate template. Check this site regularly for the templates.

Listed below are guidance documents, a timeline and other valuable resources for educators involved in the planning process for the 2010-2011 professional development plans.

Plan Submission

New2010-2011 Professional Development Plans

New A Guidance Document for the School Professional Development Plan

New A Guidance Document for the District Professional Development Plan

New Timeline for Submission of Plans

New County Professional Development Board Rubric

Resources for Teachers and Administrators

New Professional Learning for Teachers - A Guidance Package for PDP Planning (formerly “What Counts”)

New NSDC Definition of Professional Development (adapted by NJ Professional Teaching Standards Board and New Jersey Education Association Delegate Assembly)

NJ Professional Development Standards
(rationales may be accessed at http://www.nsdc.org/standards/index.cfm)

New Guidance for Moving into the Five-year Cycle

A Common Language for Professional Learning Communities (308 kb PDF PDF)

Professional Standards for Teachers and School Leaders (429 kb PDF PDF)

Professional Teaching Standards Board

Memoranda

Framework Documents

Resources

Partner Organizations

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