I just escaped from PD. That's right, I'm a flight risk. Frequently I find myself having to choose between morning PD and tutoring my students. Forget the question, "why should I even have to make that choice?" Obviously I shouldn't, but how about "why have we had the same meeting 3 times and why do I have to do it every time?"
We have PD coming out of our ears in DISD. Unlike the way they say we should teach our DISD students, we don't get any differentiation. Everyone, veteran or novice, gets the same PD despite having different needs. We get penalized for not going and get taken away from important instructional time (yes, I consider tutoring instructional time) to listen to something we've all hard before. I wouldn't mind going if there was something new, something helpful, or something interesting waiting for me, but there isn't. Students come first. If a student needs me, I'm always going to pick that over whatever PD is going on. I shouldn't be faulted for that.
We have PD coming out of our ears in DISD. Unlike the way they say we should teach our DISD students, we don't get any differentiation. Everyone, veteran or novice, gets the same PD despite having different needs. We get penalized for not going and get taken away from important instructional time (yes, I consider tutoring instructional time) to listen to something we've all hard before. I wouldn't mind going if there was something new, something helpful, or something interesting waiting for me, but there isn't. Students come first. If a student needs me, I'm always going to pick that over whatever PD is going on. I shouldn't be faulted for that.
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