Professional Association 2.0

Pru MitchellSenior Education Officer

Education Services Australia

October 2010

Working towardsprofessional association 2.0

seminars & conferences

hub group & user group

meetings

mentoring & coaching

newsletters & journals

professional reading

email lists & discussion forums

what we do now

events

www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/events

mentoring & coaching

classroom visits & shadowing video of practice

phone & email supportweekend workshops

write/record ‘what I learned’

email networks

ecawalists.edna.edu.au/lists/lists/listabout?list=echalk

oz-teacherslists.rite.ed.qut.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/oz-teachers

oztl_netwww.csu.edu.au/cstl/oztl_net

watlnet lists.edna.edu.au/lists/lists/listabout?list=echalk

more……

lists.edna.edu.au

professional reading

professional learning

Type of PD Focus

1 Job-embedded Classroom

2 Job-related School

3 Employment-related System

4 Career-related Profession

5 Self-directed Personal

M Hough 2010 attributed to Joyce 1996/7

WA College of Teachers

© Copyright Western Australian College of Teaching 2009

recording & verifying

notes relating to readings, reflections, activities or presentations;

teaching programs, plans or records

diaries or reflective journals;

copies of articles or workshop/conference papers that a teacher has contributed to or presented;

feedback from colleagues or community;

student work samples;

any other material that will show the nature and extent of participation in the activities undertaken.

WACOT A guide to recording professional learning

draft national standards

Draft National Professional Standards for Teachers

Professional Association 2.0

Image: Questionmark made of puzzle pieces Horia Varlan, CC-by

webinars & unconferences

social networking

microblogging eg twitter

professional viewing & listening

blogging, podcasts, RSS

more colourful, more social

We are smarter than me

more voices, more tags

blogging as e-portfolio

me.edu.au/b/Alisonh

microblogging

Twitter www.twitter.com

Edmodo www.edmodo.com

Yammer www.yammer.com

#edchat

#austl

#vicpln

#engchat

#wapln ?

a global profession

www.globaleducationconference.com

wikieducator.org

a sharing profession

a profession looking forward

Horizon Report K-12 2010 Technologies to Watch

1. cloud computing

2. collaborative

environments

3. game-based learning

4. mobiles www.nmc.org/publications

Create associations in which

everyone’s job is to learn

Dennis Sparks paraphrasedDesigning Power Professional Development

for Teachers and Principals

a learning profession