EDL 522 Human Resources

Welcome to EDL 522. As part of the requirements for this course you will be required to post comments to this blog after every class session. These comments should be a reflection of the readings, lectures, guest speakers, activities, or discussions that occurred during the day.

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Monday, February 4, 2008

Professional Development

It is amazing to me that so many schoos do not strive for professional development. As research is showing that the United States is behind other countries academically. It only makes since that we should be focusing some effort to help our teachers. Why is it that the first item to be cut from school budgets is the professional development? The other mistake that is made is the inappropriate content that may be in a conference or siminar. For whatever reason the teachers are not involved in what needs to be done during the professional development.
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2 comments:

chad said...

i believe the best professional development i have ever been a part of is becoming a student in EDL at WIU.

February 4, 2008 at 5:08 PM
TVallas said...

I agree that professional development is important but if I looked at how it is used in most schools, I would cut it also. I think administration has so many other duties that pro development just gets lost in the shuffle.

February 5, 2008 at 7:34 AM

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