Personalized Professional Learning for Science Teachers: The Next Generation of Professional Learning (Poster 6)

• In Event: Sunday Poster Session 7:45 am
  In Poster Session: Contemporary Issues in Science Teaching and Learning

Abstract

Science teachers are professional learners. They constantly engage in professional learning programs in order to ultimately improve the learning of their students. Unfortunately, the current design and orientation of their professional learning programs have failed teachers. Current programs are not used by a majority of teachers, and they embrace traditional design principles. Science teachers need the next generation of professional learning that is connected to their personal needs, deliberately designed to connect to science, relevant to the work of teaching science, and appropriate in scope. Examples are emerging in this area, but more work needs to be done to embrace personalized professional learning in science.

Author

• Julie A. Luft, University of Georgia