Thanks to its partnership with publisher Eye on Education, EducationWorld is pleased to present this blog post by Sally J. Zepeda, author of Instructional Supervision: Applying Tools and Concepts. In this piece, Zepeda discusses four conditions that are essential to successful implementation of job-embedded professional development.Job-embedded learning links learning to the immediate and real-life problems faced by teachers and administrators. It is based on the assumption that the most powerful learning is that which occurs in response to challenges currently being faced by the learner and that allows for immediate application, experimentation and adaptation on the job.
Job-embedded learning means that professional development is a continuous thread that can be found throughout the culture of a school. There are three attributes of successful job embedded learning:
Job-embedded professional development facilitates the transfer of new skills into practice. When ongoing support through the tools of job-embedded professional development is linked with instructional supervision, transfer of skills into practice becomes part of the job. Four conditions are essential to ensure successful implementation of job-embedded PD:
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