Teach Effectively!

Sometimes something that’s passed off as “professional development” just plain isn’t professional. There are, of course, the jokes about Underwater Basketweaving, and such. But there are instances that are beyond that joke. Over the weekend, the ever-informative Liz Ditz had a nifty piece running on I Speak of Dreams that taps this theme:

Saturday, September 22, 2007

Contest For K-12 Educators: The Dumbest Professional Development Experience in Your Career

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So here's a contest:

Write a post about the worst, most vapid, most content-free professional development experience of your teaching career, and leave a link in the comments (or post the whole sorry story in the comments, if you'd like). Maybe we'll learn something.

Link to the post. I’ll be interested in reviewing the entries. I want to see some good ones.