Seven standards for effective professional development | eSchool News

Seven standards for effective professional development | eSchool News

Conference presenter Stephanie Hirsch says collaborative teamwork among teachers is a key to 21st-century student achievement

Terms like “work collaboratively,” “share what you know,” and “problem-solve as a team” are commonly associated with the kinds of 21^st-century skills that most people agree today’s students should learn—but according to a professional development expert with decades of experience in the field, those terms should apply to teachers, too.