I was just looking at the iPD Metadata project, and I am finding it more interesting than I had originally. Here are the categories that they are considering tagging all PD with, including the original language for the sub-categories. How do we think these align with our frameworks?
Instructional Strategies
– Facilitating Small Groups
– Whole Group Instruction
– Using Discussion Protocols
– Questioning Strategies
– Differentiation-Scaffolding
– Engaging All Learners
– Gradual Release of Responsibility
– Domain Specific Thinking Skills
– Delivering Instruction
– Facilitating Learning
Learning Environment
– Classroom Management
– Discipline
– Rules
– Rewards and Punishments
– Intrinsic Motivators
– Family Engagement
– Establishing a Productive Classroom
– Managing a Productive Classroom
Assessment
– Feedback Loops
– Portfolio
– 7 Cs of Learning Design (conceptualize, capture, collaborate, consider, combine, consolidate)
– Formative
– Summative
– Exit Slips
– Informal
– Formal
– Looking at Student Work
– Data-Driven Decision Making
– Data Analysis
– Monitoring Student Learning
– Responding to Student Learning
Instructional Planning
– Lesson Design
– Inquiry
– Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC)
– Mathematics Design Collaborative (MDC)
– Duration
– Standards
– Understanding by Design (UBD)
– Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
– Reflection
– Unit Design
– Identifying Resources
Professional Commitments
– Coaching
– Observing and Providing Feedback
– Presenting
– Publishing
– Facilitating
– Advocacy
– Collaboration
– Case Management
– Communicating Effectively
– Continuous Improvement of Teaching
– Instructional Leadership
Here is the link to the overall project.
Theress Pidick, Danielle Ongart, and Justin Darnell, what do you think?
