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PD360- Professional Development on Demand provides access to high quality staff development materials via the Internet. PD360 makes it possible to provide differentiated staff development while supporting a variety of learning styles and instructional approaches.
What is PD360?
- An online professional development tool useful in planning staff development to address content and teaching strategies
- A series of digitized searchable and indexed videos of teaching best practice classroom examples
- Content topics are regularly updated and enriched
- Many videos introduced by well-known experts such as Rick & Rebecca DuFour, Joellen Killion, Stephen Barkley, Spencer & Laurie Kagan, Jay McTighe, Rich Stiggins and many more
- Participants answer reflection and follow-up questions designed to stimulate thinking about classroom application
- Reporting capability to show the most-viewed topics and learning segments
Project Background
During the 2007-2008 school year, many schools and departments experimented with PD360 through a free trial account and were eager to purchase site licenses for their staff development initiatives.
- A PD360 project team responded to a need from the Cluster offices, departments and schools to evaluate or assess this tool
- Conducted a study and evaluated PD 360 in a variety of settings
- The Mentor Program for Great Beginnings (PLT)
- The Mentor/Protégé Program for SBTS
- Select teachers using eCART
- Cluster Offices for Professional Development
- Professional Development Study at Elementary School
- Investigated how PD360 was used
- Collaboration for learning - Focus Objectives
- Faculty Study Groups – Elementary School
- Leadership – Cluster Offices
- Monitored how PD 360 performs on the network
- Develop recommendations/guidelines for use in FCPS
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For FCPS Employees...
PD360 is now Available...
For more information concerning PD360,
please log on to My PLT.
On your Home tab under the Personal Announcements box, click on PD360: On-Demand, Job-Embedded Learning - Anytime
This link will take you to the fcpsnet web page (intranet).
**If you are logging in from home you will need VPN to access the intranet page.
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