Standards+for+Staff+Development

toc The National Staff Development Council in collaboration with the National Association of Secondary School Principals developed the following standards for staff development.


 * Context** addresses the organization, system, or culture in which the new learnings will be implements. Some contexts are more supportive to improvement than others.


 * Process** refers to the "how" of staff development; it describes the means for he acquisition of new knowledge and skills. Some examples of process standards include: group development, follow up and support, and evaluation.


 * Content** refers to the actual skills and knowledge effective high school educators need to possess or acquire through staff development. some examples of content include: research-based instructional strategies, adolescent development, high expectations, and curriculum.

=Context=


 * 1) Effective high school staff development requires and fosters the norm of continuous improvement.
 * 2) Effective high school staff development requires strong leadership in order to obtain continuing support and to motivate all staff, school board members, parents, and the community to be advocates for continuous improvement.
 * 3) Effective high school staff development is aligned with the school's and the district's strategic plan and is funded by a line item in the budget.
 * 4) Effective high school staff development provides adequate time during the day for staff members to learn and work together to accomplish the school's mission and goals.
 * 5) Effective high school staff development is an innovation in itself that requires study of the change process.

=Process=


 * 1) Effective high school staff development provides knowledge, skills, and attitudes regarding organization development and systems thinking.
 * 2) Effective high school staff development is based on knowledge about human learning and development.
 * 3) Effective high school staff development provides for the three phases of the change process: initiation, implementation, and institutionalization.
 * 4) Effective high school staff development bases priorities on a careful analysis of disaggregated student data regarding goals for student learning.
 * 5) Effective high school staff development uses content that has proven value in increasing student learning and development.
 * 6) Effective high school staff development provides a framework for integrating innovations and relating those innovations to the mision of the organization.
 * 7) Effective high school staff development requires an evaluation process that is ongoing, includes multiple sources of information, and focuses on all levels of the organization.
 * 8) Effective high school staff development uses a variety of staff development approaches to accomplish the goals of improving instruction and student success.
 * 9) Effective high school staff development provides the follow up necessary to ensure improvement.
 * 10) Effective high school staff development requires staff members to learn and apply collaborative skills to conduct meetings, make shared decisions, solve problems, and work collegially.
 * 11) Effective high school staff development requires knowledge and use of the stages of group development to build efecive, productive, colegial teams.

=Content=


 * 1) Effective high school staff development increases administrators' and teachers' understanding of how to provide school environments and instruction that are responsive to the developmental needs of adolescents.
 * 2) Effective high school staff development facilitates the development and implementation of school and clasroom-based management which maximize student learning.
 * 3) Effective high school staff development addresses diversity by providing awareness and training related to the knowledge, skills, and behaviors needed to ensure that an equitable and quality education is provided to all students.
 * 4) Effective high school staff development enable educators to provide challenging, developmentally-appropriate curricula that engage students in integrative ways of thinking and learning.
 * 5) Effective high school staff development prepares teachers to use research-based teaching strategies appropriate to their instructional objectives and their students.
 * 6) Effective high school staff development facilitates staff collaboration with and support of families for improving student performance.
 * 7) Effective high school staff development prepares teachers to demonstrate high expectations for student learning.
 * 8) Effective high school staff development prepares teachers to use various types of performance assessment in their classrooms.
 * 9) Effective high school staff development prepares educators to combine academic student learning goals with service to the community.
 * 10) Effective high school staff development increases administrators' and teachers' ability to provide guidance and advisement to adolescents.