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Tool: Align PD to Employability Skills

Framework for the Future

Goal Setting

Learning Model

Learning opportunity

Safe Practice

Coaching & Feedback

Reflection

& Revision

Analyze Impact

Develop

Next Step

1. Creating a learning process

Professional Learning Design

How will your team develop new knowledge and strategies to meaningfully implement Employability Skills?

Models of Practice

How will teachers have opportunities to observe other practitioners to develop their practice?

Lesson Design

How will teachers design learning experiences to integrate Employability Skills?

Safe Practice/Test Ideas

How will you ensure teachers have safe opportunities to practice, test, and reflect on new learning?

Coaching & Feedback

How will all teachers receive feedback related to Employability Skills-related instructional shifts?

Reflection & Revision

How will teachers reflect on their feedback and make necessary revisions to continue to improve practice?

Analyze Impact and Next Steps

How will teachers assess student Employability Skill achievement and determine next steps?

Make Learning Public

How will the learning process be shared?

Learning is a PROCESS, not at event.

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2. Design Your Initial Educator Onboarding

What

What will the learning experience entail? What resources and protocols will you use? How might you explicitly model collaboration, communication, and work ethic in the experience?

Who

Who will facilitate? What industry partners might you engage to make the onboarding relevant and authentic?

When

When will this onboarding take place? What will happen before, during, and after?

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3. Align planned PD to Employability Skills

Experience

Date/Time

Employability Skill Connections

  • Work Ethic
  • Collaboration
  • Communication

  • Work Ethic
  • Collaboration
  • Communication

  • Work Ethic
  • Collaboration
  • Communication

  • Work Ethic
  • Collaboration
  • Communication

  • Work Ethic
  • Collaboration
  • Communication

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4. Support Educator Goal Setting

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