Personalized Professional Development

NS faculty and staff will have an opportunity this year to do self-paced professional development. The PD is done independently and will give educators an opportunity to learn about a variety of topics that they are interested in exploring. Educators will use the task card library to learn independently through a self-paced format that helps to improve classroom practices while earning PLUs! Our Self-paced PDs are a selection of task cards/activities that require educators to create a final product and receive and act upon feedback from our coaches before completion.   The average time to complete the task cards is 2 hours. The North Smithfield Virtual Task Card Library will open starting today, September 2nd - September 11th and on every statewide PD day. To access the PD, please refer to the email sent out to the district on September 2nd.

Topics include:
Building Relationships With Students
Effective Co-Teaching
Cognitive Development
Classroom Management
Differentiation in Instruction
Effective Behavioral Feedback
Engagement Strategies & Tools for a Live Virtual Class
Exploring Effective Educational Applications
Using Google Meet
Grading and Feedback in Google  Classroom
Introduction to Pear Deck
Mastering Screencastify 
Screencastify for Math Instruction
Multilingual Learner Strategies
Planning Learning Scaffolds for Differently Abled Students
Utilizing Google Classroom 
Strategies for Student Interaction
Scaffolds to Accelerate Learning
Utilizing Google Forms for Formative Assessment