Giving Compass' Take:

• When it comes to professional development, Education Dive suggests empowering teachers by allowing them to have more say in what they learn and personalize that experience.

• It's important for teachers to be able to have a voice in their own training, but how can nonprofits engaged in such work make sure that they are heard loud and clear?

• Learn more about professional learning.

Professional development is an important element in improving the educational process. However, inefficient and ineffective professional development can often feel like a waste of time and resources and tends to annoy teachers rather than engage them. There are strategies, however, that administrators can use to improve professional development.

One of the best ways is empowering teachers by giving them a voice in the process and finding out what they want and need to learn. Some PD may still need to be done as a whole, especially when administrators need to introduce a new educational framework or technology, or simply need to get everyone on the same page. However, personalizing the PD process by guiding teachers into areas they most need to develop makes the process more relevant to them and is a more direct way of improving instruction.

Read the full article about professional learning by Amelia Harper at Education Dive.