Effective Teacher Professional Development in Action
The Teachscape Professional Learning Suite combines abundant authentic video and text resources delivered online with graphical, communication, and collaboration tools to provide the structure and resources necessary for successful professional development.
A Powerful Combination of Online Learning Resources
Use Teachscape Professional Learning Suite in any of the following ways:
- By itself as an online resource, whether for independent, group, or facilitator-led study within your school or district
- Combined with a Teachscape three-day workshop (institute) or academic-year development program (program of study)
- In combination with Teachscape Walk and/or Teachscape Reflect, providing relevant professional development to support your action plan
Each of the eight Teachscape Professional Learning Suite content libraries addresses multiple topics in a given subject area. The topics are explored in focused learning modules that typically comprise the following components:
Video Resources
- Feature research-based practices in action in the classroom
- Provide commentaries by noted researchers and experts
- Include teacher reflections to promote better understanding of instructional decision making
Text Resources
- Build academic knowledge of content, instructional strategies, assessment, and student thinking
- Summarize the research that explains the benefits of the featured practices and helps teachers understand why and how the practices work
- Include classroom resources, such as lesson plans, sample student work from the featured lesson, assessment tools (including rubrics) for evaluating student work, and suggestions for addressing the diverse learning needs of students
Graphical Models
- Deepen content knowledge for teaching
- Promote greater understanding of complex topics
- Illustrate key ideas
Communication and Collaboration Tools
- Support ongoing discussion among professional learning community members
- Provide a virtual forum for participants to collaborate on their work, reflect on their practice, assess student work, and share action research
Teachscape Walk and Teachscape Reflect
Teachscape Professional Learning Suite extends the effectiveness of your action plan for Teachscape Walk or Teachscape Reflect with professional learning resources, easy customization, and powerful collaboration tools.
The combination of Teachscape Walk and Teachscape Reflect data collection and analysis processes with the deeper content and skills development of Teachscape Professional Learning Suite creates a systemic, thorough, and accessible approach to more effective teaching.
