Should teachers own their learning?
What if school districts and school administrators trusted teachers to let them direct their own PD?
What if the ideas of personalized learning and students owning their learning was applied to teachers?
These are questions I ask as I wonder about the ways in which schools and districts attempt to support teacher growth. In the same way schools have a hard time empowering students to own their learning, districts struggle with letting teachers own theirs. I'm not aware of any district that truly embraces the notion of personalized learning. Districts all seem to feel the need or push to set goals for schools and teachers. They tend to standardized professional development and in many ways replicate the industrial models of school. The underlying desire for accountability is largely the barrier to trust.
What if their goal was to have teachers truly own their own learning?
