Resource Search: Professional Development

This document provides references to support specific statements related to professional development in the early childhood field.

An NPDCI presentation at the annual meeting of the Child Care Policy Research Consortium, October 21, 2010

Serving the diverse needs, professional roles and goals of the early childhood workforce can make systems development complicated and complex. Accessing and using resources to help doesn't have to be! This presentation explores state professional development systems frameworks and play with policy tools.

This presentation provides information about a new definition of inclusion developed by NAEYC and DEC and evidence related to effective inclusion practices.

In this session, attendees had a chance to learn about and apply a professional development framework to a professional development opportunity, initiative, or event for which they had some responsibility or role in a small group activity. Note: Professional development is broadly defined as facilitated teaching and learning experiences that are transactional and designed to support the acquisition of professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions as well as the application of this knowledge in practice.