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Personalizing Professional Development Through the Unconference: A Constructivist Approach
Abstract
This chapter shares a framework for personalizing professional development through which adult learners' needs are determined in real time and discussed and investigated at the time of need for educators. The model, referred to as an unconference or EdCamp, brings educators together, either physically on the same site or electronically, where needs are identified at the start of the meeting, then shared and addressed by those with similar needs. This chapter traces a brief history of professional development (PD) in P-12 schools from the emergence of the National Staff Development Council, now called Learning Forward, and reviews the evolution of evaluation models. It then traces a brief history of learning theory from Behaviorism to Constructivism, and the impact of the evolving understanding of how we learn on changing professional development delivery. The authors share advances from the sciences that have influenced the design and delivery of learning and offer a brain-based approach for delivering PD.
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