UCET Podcast with Kiera Beddes

Professional Learning IRL with Daron Kennett and Rob Bentley

Episode Summary

In this episode of the UCET podcast, we are focusing on how to plan and provide professional learning experiences for a grade level team, department, school or professional conference.

Episode Notes

Welcome back to episode 5 of the UCET podcast, where we talk about all things Utah, education, and technology. In this episode, we are focusing on how to plan and provide professional learning experiences for a grade-level team, department, school, or professional conference, and how teachers can find the best professional learning for themselves. We have two guests on this episode, Daron Kennett, the Professional Learning Supervisor for Davis School District, and Rob Bentley, a UEN instructor. 

Over the course of this episode, we discuss the following questions:

• How can teachers use professional learning to rejuvenate their love of the profession?
• Why do teachers engage in professional learning? Why do you?
• What makes for excellent and/or effective professional learning for teachers? 
• What are some challenges to designing good professional learning for teachers?

At the end of the episode, we discussed the future of professional learning and how teachers can take ownership of their own professional development. If you want more, you can read Daron’s book The Game Plan: A Multi-Year Blueprint to Create a School Culture of Literacy and Data Analysis and you can follow Rob at @robobent on Twitter. 

Special thanks to Matt Winters for the sound editing and Kiera Beddes for hosting.