A Personalized PD Pilot
Inspiration & An Idea Last summer at ISTE I came across an incredible poster session called " The Amazing Race to Personalized PD " put together by Kimberly Boyd, Kim Wienken, and Rachelle Wooten from Fort Bend ISD. This poster session highlighted a personalized PD model they developed and implemented in their district. As I looked at their format, I knew this was a very feasible concept that would definitely help my teachers earn their technology PD hours- and most importantly, do it in a personalized way! I have often reflected on my professional development methodologies and for the most part have been satisfied with much of my training content and delivery, however there's always been a few things that I knew could be improved. One was offering content that would be engaging enough to intrinsically motivate teachers to apply newly learned tools or resources post-training; another was making content more interesting to them by providing more choice. And t...