Facilitating School-wide PD (#Organise_with_SLS)

What it is

Teachers and the Professional Development (PD) committee can help to make school-wide PD sessions seamless and easily accessible through Class Groups in SLS.

Why do it

• PD resources can be consolidated into lessons as a systematic way of conducting PD sessions in school.
• Class Groups can act as an aggregating platform where discussion and comments can be accessed via the Forum.
• Using SLS for PD benefits you and your colleagues through familiarization of the Class Group feature and increases confidence in using SLS.
• (New in R19) The SLS Planner helps teachers and the PD committee to plan ahead by attaching assignments or resources in a selected date cell. Recurring events can also be created for PD sessions.

How to do it

1. Create a lesson or series of lessons for PD and organise them in a folder in My Drive.
2. From your school PD Class Group, assign these lesson(s), with pre-defined Start and End dates, according to the PD schedule in school.
3. Teachers (as Students) will be notified via SLS Announcements to complete the assignments.
4. Using the Lesson Heatmap, PD facilitators can bring up responses for further discussion.
5. Teachers can extend their learning further by creating posts in the Class Group Forum to generate discussions.

Tip!

• Create differentiated access to sections within the lesson, such as by department, by assigning Subgroups.