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title: "I was just looking at the iPD Metadata project, and I am finding it more interesting than I had originally."
date: 2013-11-06
url: https://learningischange.com/2013/11/06/i-was-just-looking-at-the-ipd-metadata-project-and-i-am-finding-it-more-interesting-than-i-had-originally/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Ben Wilkoff"]
tags: ["Ben Wilkoff"]
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# I was just looking at the iPD Metadata project, and I am finding it more interesting than I had originally.

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?

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