Teacher Leader KnowledgeBase

This KnowledgeBase archive includes content and external links that were accurate and relevant as of September 30, 2019.

The Teacher Leader KnowledgeBase aims to raise awareness of the teacher leader role at the district level and to support teachers aspiring to the teacher leader role through master's degree-level university programs.

Task 4: Monitor Individual Professional Growth

Guideline: Throughout the school year, teachers in leadership roles should monitor their personal professional learning goals in relation to the professional learning accomplished. Adjustments to the plan should be made as necessary. Likewise, teacher leaders should assist their fellow teachers to monitor their professional learning goals in relation to the professional learning accomplished. This task provides resources to monitor professional learning.

Resources

Tools

Monitoring Professional Development

The New Hampshire Department of Education's Professional Development Master Plan Toolkit serves as a thinking guide for educators in developing professional learning programming. The toolkit offers several reflective templates that are useful to teachers in monitoring professional learning progress. These templates have been extracted from the document and reproduced for ease of use by interested teachers.

References

Reflection for Learning

This link is to the Reflection for Learning website developed by the University of Oregon's Helen Barrett and Jonathon Richter of the Center for Advanced Technology in Education. As noted at the website, its purpose is "to support reflection for learning in education, from early childhood through higher education and into the professions." Teachers may find the content useful when assessing the effectiveness of their professional learning.