AALPD PD Registry
As a service to the field and in response to a need expressed by our members, the AALPD developed the Professional Development Registry as a way for professional developers to share tools for professional development: facilitator guides, workshop agendas and outlines, and manuals that describe how to conduct training for adult education practitioners. It came about because professional developers who are part of our network wanted a place where they could post training guides and manuals they had designed and written. They also wanted a place to see the actual professional development activities that others had created, and to get feedback from others about their activities. We hope the PD Registry meets these unique needs.
Matrix of Methods for Professional Development (Word)
Organizes approaches into 4 primary areas - Face to Face Across Programs, Online or Hybrid Professional Development, Program-based, and Supported Individual Learning. This matrix is a good starting point to invite other professional developers to add to the matrix or to comment on professional development strategies.
National Initiatives Relevant to Professional Development in Adult Literacy, April 2007
AALPD provides information about these major staff development efforts across the United States:
- AdultEd Online
- Thinkfinity
- Standards-In-Action: Turning Adult Education Standards Into Curriculum and Instruction
- Evidence-based Practice: A Workshop for Training Adult Basic Education, TANF and One Stop Practitioners and Program Administrators
- Effective Practices in Reading in Adult Education and Family Literacy
- An Evaluation of the Impact of Explicit Literacy Instruction on Adult ESL Learners
If you have an initiative
or project that you would like to list here, please send the information
to the Chair
Evaluating
Professional Development Resources Selection and Development Criteria,
a publication by PRO-NET 2000. This publication provides the field with
information on what comprises "quality" professional development resources.
It provides a set of criteria and indicators to (1) help program and professional
develoment staff select and evaluate professional development materials
and resources, and (2) help professional developers and researchers prepare
and develop quality resources. The criteria are organized into four categories:
Appropriateness of General Content, Appropriatness of Design an Delivery,
Quality of Research Base, and Ease of Adoption/Adaptation.
Association of Adult Literacy
Professional Developers Bylaws
“The Role of Professional
Development in Evidence-based Practice in Adult Education.”
Slide presentation from COABE, April 2003