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Educator Effectiveness Research Alliance: Professional Development Workgroup, REL Central
The Professional Development Workgroup was formed to explore job-embedded professional development (JEPD) targeted at improving teachers' classroom performance is an emerging challenge facing schools, districts, and states. Targeted JEPD refers to professional development activities that address goals based on individual teacher needs and responsibilities as identified through newly-developed teacher evaluation systems. Pressure on schools and districts to increase student outcomes has resulted in a serious effort to improve teacher effectiveness. JEPD is a method of improving teacher effectiveness that has widespread support.
Examples of work we have undertaken through this workgroup are organizing webinars on targeted JEPD practices and supporting data collection to document JEPD and possibly correlate it with changes in teacher effectiveness.
Research Questions:
Research alliance members identified the following research questions as areas of interest. REL Central is helping alliance members explore these questions by sharing existing resources or research findings related to the questions through webinars and technical support, or through research projects.
- What forms of JEPD are districts providing?
- Are there associations between JEPD activities and needs identified in teacher's performance appraisals?
- Are JEPD activities associated with increases in performance appraisal ratings?
Geographical Areas Served:
Colorado
Member Organizations:
- Colorado Department of Education
- University of Colorado Denver
Contact Information:
Robert Reichardt, PhD
REL Central at Marzano Research
12577 E. Caley Ave.
Centennial, CO 80111
rer@apaconsulting.net
(888) 840-8510
External Website
http://www.relcentral.org/?p=3373
Keywords
Teacher Evaluation or Effectiveness, Educator Performance Evaluation, Professional Development
Colorado