Monday, April 1, 2013
Professional Development
We had our 2nd Professional Development Training today. I must say that it was a very productive one. Our administrative team treated us to a great hotel and ballroom and breakfast and lunch. It was a great way to kick-off "back-to-school" after Spring Break. I learned quite a bit today, from special education and the proper IEP process and the possibilities of mainstreaming to the implementation of the Positive Behavior Intervention and Support System (PBIS); this had to be the most important part of the event for me, because it was all-encompassing of the laws of the department, the School Resource Officers (SRO's), Character Education, and Discipline (Referrals). I thought that everything I learned was detrimental to the smoothness of my classroom and the environment. Southern High School is trying to implement the "PBIS" for the sake of creating a more positive environment for everyone involved in the success of education.
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I felt that the offer the SROs made to come and teach our classes and give presentations and whatnot was very kind and should be quite useful in the future. As for the PBIS, I'm glad we're trying to implement it, I see nothing but good things happening the future for our school!
ReplyDeleteI know nothing about the PBIS but just its name sounds like my kind of system! We had a guest speaker at one of our faculty development days a while back who said something that really stuck with me: Nowadays, there are so many anti-bullying or anti-something or other trainings. Why do we teach anti-bullying when we can teach our students how to love, be compassionate, and respectful? We shouldn't teach to correct negatives, we should teach how to live positively.
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