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The professional learning program

What teachers said about the professional learning program

The following is a sample of comments from teachers about the professional learning program:

• Powerful model that encourages action learning and peer discussion
• Professional development days considered to be very full and very useful opportunity to exchange ideas with teacher colleagues.
• Some teachers prefer to process new information differently with time to reflect before use.
• The notion of inputs in bite size chunks followed by the opportunity to trial and the collaborate with feedback is seen to be very attractive
• The project is providing skills to teach students how to read – a skill not previously part of the professional repertoire.
• Model requires commitment and encourages all participants to be constantly engaged.