Professional Development is an essential, on-going process that creates a collaborative school environment fostering student achievement. Professional development for the teachers in the Southern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists is a critical issue. Educational reform requires teachers to learn new roles and new ways of teaching.

"In all true teaching the personal element is essential. Christ in His teaching dealt with men individually. It was by personal contact and association that He trained the Twelve. It was in private, often to but one listener, that He gave His most precious instruction. To the honored rabbi at the night conference on the Mount of Olives, to the despised woman at the well of Sychar, He opened His richest treasures; for in these hearers He discerned the impressible heart, the open mind, the receptive spirit. Even the crowd that so often thronged His steps was not to Christ an indiscriminate mass of human beings. He spoke directly to every mind and appealed to every heart. He watched the faces of His hearers, marked the lighting up of the countenance, the quick, responsive glance, which told that truth had reached the soul; and there vibrated in His heart the answering chord of sympathetic joy." Education, page 231

Study Groups

The professional strengths and accomplishments of the school faculty at large must work to complement the learning needs of all students. Professional development activities must also balance both the needs of the educator and the goals and objectives of the school. Conducting Study Groups is one way of helping our educators work learn together, plan together, test ideas together and reflect together.

What are Study Groups

Study Group Agenda

Study Group Logs
 

The resources and links provided on this page are intended to support the role of teacher and shared decision-makers in the education process.

Links:

American Memory offers a variety of professional development programs and resources, educators.

PBS TeacherSource provides professional development courses in math, reading and technology.

Smithsonian Education quality resources for educators.

Learning Disabilities Support is the leading Web site on learning disabilities for parents, teachers, and other professionals .

TeachingLD is a service of the Division for learning Disabilities (DLD)of the Council for Exceptional Children. Division for Learning Disabilities is the largest international professional organization focused on learning disabilities. The purpose of Teaching LD is to provide trustworthy and up-to-date resources about teaching students with learning disabilities.

TDEC Innovative Integrated Technology Grant was established by the NAD Union Directors of Education Council and the NAD
Pre-K-12 Board of Education for the Technology and Distance Education K-12 (TDEC) The purpose of this grant is to encourage teachers to experiment with innovative integration of technology in the classroom. Grant monies may be awarded up to $1000.00 and can be used for software, hardware, and or materials. The grant is available to full-time Seventh-day Adventist teachers in
Pre-K-12.

Adventist School Management contains school accounting downloadable upgrades for Adventist School Management (ASM) software commissioned by the NAD Office of Education for small Adventist schools .