Professional Development

2021 - 2022
Presented by Charles Jacobs
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Learning Objectives

1. • Classroom management limiting distractions for students

2. • Best teaching strategies to reach students and keep them engaged

grouping, one on one intervention and self-guided student learning
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Schedule

1. • Principals’ introduction (5 Minutes)

2. • Best classroom management strategies (10 minutes)
3. • Best Teaching Strategies (15 minutes)
4. • Demonstration and interactive activity of learned strategies
(15 minutes)
5. • Open floor for teacher questions (10 minutes)
6. • Principals closing (5 minutes)
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Activities/ Purpose

● The presentation will focus on giving teachers best strategies to keep students
engaged in class and help improve their academic performance.

● Strategies will include classroom management strategies, teaching strategies that

breaks students into groups based upon current academic performance.

● Also, differentiation of instruction to keep students involved in many different ways

to keep students’ attention.
 Activities/ Purpose
✘ Teachers will get involved doing an activity that I created that makes them work together

in small groups.

✘ In groups teachers will be answering question Jeopardy style on strategies that was

presented to them during the presentation.

✘ This is done to show the more involved students are during the lesson the more

enjoyable the lesson is and the more information that they will retained
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Techniques for Standards

★ Standards based lesson plans

★ Standards posted in classroom
★ Telling students standards/ learning objectives
★ Use District Curriculum
★ Incorporation of Educational Software
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Accountability Plan

★ Teachers will be held accountable for implementing these strategies into their
classroom instructions on a weekly basis through the leadership team observational
classroom walk throughs.
★ Teachers will be responsible for recording students District test score to show whether
the new teaching and classroom management strategies are helping their students’
academic performance and give feedback to the leadership team.
★ This is important because sometimes implementation with different students can
contribute to different results
 GAGNE'S NINE EVENTS OF INSTRUCTION
✘ Gaining Attention (Reception) ...
✘ Informing Learners of the Objective (Expectancy) ...
✘ Stimulating Recall of Prior Learning (Retrieval) ...
✘ Presenting the Stimulus (Selective Perception) ...
✘ Providing Learning Guidance (Semantic Encoding) ...
✘ Eliciting Performance (Responding)
✘ Providing Feedback
✘ Assessing Performance
✘ Enhancing Retention and Transfer
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Evaluation

★ Purpose of this presentation is to provide our teachers with PD that helps Classroom
management limiting distractions for students and Best teaching strategies to reach
students and keep them engaged grouping, one on one intervention and self-guided
student learning
1. Are the meeting objectives met?
2. Areas that you may still need some more help with?
3. Areas/ Ideas for improvement of the presentation?
4. Ideas for future Professional Development?
5. Any other Feedback/ questions that you have on the presentation
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References

● Dixon, F. A., Yssel, N., McConnell, J. M., & Hardin, T. (2014). Differentiated Instruction, Professional Development,
and Teacher Efficacy. Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 37(2), 111–127.
https://doi-org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.1177/0162353214529042
● KELLEY, D. (2016). Powerful Professional Development. Principal Leadership, 17(2), 41–43.
● Ullah, H., Rehman, A. U., & Bibi, S. (2015). Gagné’s 9 Events of Instruction - a Time Tested Way to Improve
Teaching. Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 65(4), 535–539.