The Cycle of Professional Learning.

The upcoming National Professional Standards for Teachers looks a lot more complicated than the current Victorian Standards of Professional Practice for Full Registration.  Much of it though is pretty much the same.

Under standards 6 and 7 there's a new focus, professional networks, which we covered here.

We have been working away industriously to come up with a visual aid to help show how all of this is expected to slot together to create one big cycle of professional learning.

If you havn't driven Prezi before, simply click the arrows to go forward and backwards through the frames or use the left/right arrow keys on the keyboard.  If you click the "more" button you can opt to view the prezi in fullscreen (but autoplay is unsuitable!).  If you are viewing through your iPad you can visit the Prezi Website to download the free Prezi Viewer app.

For those of you not attending tonight's meeting this presentation forms part of the activities we have organized.

We will be suggesting that our members include this in their PD submissions under "Standard 7:  Teachers develop organizational and administrative skills to manage their non-teaching duties effectively" as a starting point for the group reflection.

It will take you 25-45 minutes to go through the presentation depending on how many of the videos you watch in full.  Don't forget to add your reflection time to your Professional Development submission!

In the next few days we will also put together a blog post containing a summary of the discussions and suggestions centering around the National Curriculum and also the classroom uses of Prezi for CRTs.

Regards,

Mel.