Friday, March 17
12:10-12:30 PM
CDT
Bourbon

The “Learn-Practice-Share Cycle”: An Effective Model of Informal Educator Professional Development

Best Practices (Live Virtual) ID: 62098

Abstract: In this Best Practices presentation, we share the Learn-Practice-Share Cycle model of professional development that we created and refined over 10 years to provide high-quality, virtual professional development to STEM educators in informal learning environments, where access to professional development is often limited. In this model, educators meet in small cohorts over three sessions to learn a facilitation skill, record themselves practicing the skill, and give and receive feedback from peers and an experienced coach. We have used this model for a variety of modules, including asking purposeful questions and elevating youth voice and choice. Foundational to the success of this model are four foci, which we have honed for use in a virtual professional learning setting: centralizing evidence of practice, creating a virtual community that is supportive and brave, enhancing learning through cohort diversity, and using the skill of asking purposeful questions as an anchor for skill development across modules. Future work for this model includes developing city and state “hubs” to enable the model to be responsive to regional and cultural opportunities and facilitate the development of communities of practice.

Presider: Nicole Michele Barlow, Kansas State University

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