Activity Directions: Identify Professional Learning Needs

1. Participants will identify and understand the professional learning that is needed to support the selected instructional practices and curriculum.

1. Determine the participants and schedule the meeting. The grouping of participants could be by groups that wrote the practice profiles or intentionally use different grouping.

2. If this is a new team, review the “Principles we live by” handout for grounding the team.

3. Make copies or give participants access to documents and handouts.

a. Plans developed in the Instruction Preparation: Plan Instructional Support activity

b. Practice Profiles Professional Learning Needs chart for each group or access to an editable electronic document.

1. Discuss with the group the goals for the activity

2. If needed, remind the group of the selected instructional practices and the process and rationale that was used to select those practices.

3. Review and analyze the practice profiles that were developed in Instructional Preparation: Develop Tools and identify the professional learning needs for each of the components of the selected practices using the Professional Learning Needs chart

a. In determining the Professional Learning needs, consider the backgroups of the educators who will participate.