Identify a teacher from the teacher profiles whose instruction would benefit from attending a professional development session.

Mrs. Josephine Tribble Sixth Grade English:

Mrs. Josephine Tribble has worked as teacher of Language Arts/English for 6th graders at Kelsey Middle School since 2 years, following the Kelsey educational boards syllabus. In the course of an academic year, Mrs. Tribble, thus, teaches a total of five novels, besides the requisite writing and composition skills. The educational board necessitates measurement of pupil accomplishment based on the District Assessment Program. Mrs. Tribble finds her pupils below average with regard to language arts and reading. She has requested the schools principal to provide additional funding for helping her offer low-readability, interesting study material to her pupils. But the principal claims funds cannot be arranged and thus, Mrs. Tribble recognizes the need to come up with material by herself in order to improve her pupils performance. Furthermore, Mrs. Tribble struggles with interacting with her pupils and managing their conduct. She has resorted to "Goodie Tokens" for rewarding appropriate conduct.

Select a task-specific seminar in your district, state, or online that you would recommend for this teacher.

Oxford Teachers Academy - Online professional development

This represents a series of Oxford University Press-designed web-based self-study courses aimed at English language instructors professional growth. After successfully completing these courses, the enrolee is entitled to Oxford Universitys Department for Continuing Education certification. The courses incorporate the components of enrolee knowledge-sharing and interaction. Educational institutes are entitled to offer the courses as in-house, moderated, professional growth initiatives. Goals and subjects of study have been charted on the EAQUALS Language Teacher Training and Development Framework (Oxford Teachers Academy, 2018). Mrs. Tribble will benefit from attending this professional development session.

Create a follow-up plan supporting this teacher in implementing the skills learned at the professional development session.

Before the start of the teacher improvement/professional development session, the educator in question (Mrs. Tribble) reviewed applicable information from the previous academic year with the program administrator. This included observation reports, MOSL outcomes and feedback, which helped them together ascertain areas requiring improvement. Mrs. Tribble will likely need to work on the following areas:

1. Incorporation of content-connected information and pedagogy into instruction planning and instructional processes for helping pupils acquire mastery over key sixth-grade-specific standards and content.

2. Planning and execution of learning activities aimed at pupils cognitive participation and progress through grade-specific content.

3. Supervision of pupil learning through meticulous, advance planning of continuous evaluations, and integrating...

…on hand for aiding Mrs. Tribble in achieving professional performance improvement (for instance, professional growth, coworker visits, material, content areas experts, and so forth).

Assessment of Improvement: The administrator will determine the technique of progress measurement and assessment with regard to Mrs. Tribble and outline subsequent steps in the professional development effort on the basis of whether Mrs. Tribble demonstrates success, failure or partial success.

During successive meetings, evidence will be analysed from observing Mrs. Tribbles lesson and her pupils learning to gauge how far it demonstrates:

1. Pupil mastery over key sixth-grade-specific standards and content.

2. Cognitive engagement and progress of pupils through the grade-specific content.

3. Pupil achievement of desired learning outcomes.

4. Improvement of pupil performance.

If Mrs. Tribble demonstrates success in the above professional development areas, novel areas and activities may be established.

If partial success is demonstrated, there will be a need to ascertain activities and areas requiring continued attention, besides identification of novel improvement areas and activities (on the basis of pupil learning evidence).

If Mrs. Tribble demonstrates failure, the same professional developmental areas and activities will be revisited, with further activities included for supporting improvement as needed (adapted from Danielson, 2009).

References

Danielson, C. (2009). Implementing the Framework for Teaching in Enhancing Professional Practice. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.

Oxford Teachers Academy. (2018).…