Professional Development

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BRIEF SUMMARY

Professional development refers to many types of educational experiences related to an individual’s work. For school counselors to be as effective as possible, they continually expand their knowledge and skills to implement the best counseling and educational practices.

KEY POINTS

  • “Professional development” usually means a formal process such as a conference, seminar, workshop; collaborative learning among members of a work team; or a course at a college or university.  Professional development can also occur in informal contexts such as discussions among colleagues, independent reading and research, observation of a colleague’s work, or other learning from a peer.

SHARED WISDOM

  • The Indiana Youth Institute offers professional development grants (PDGs). The information will be on our website (here).
  • Sometimes High Ability grants allow for some professional development that can include graduate studies. For example, if the teacher is interested in taking courses that would be applicable to the HA population, the grant could be used to fund those courses.
  • Professional Development Opportunities for Indiana School Counselors from Michelle Clarke, Indiana Department of Education (March 2020)
  • Moodles
    • Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) provides an online professional development series for Indiana School Counselors via Moodle.  The intent of the series is to provide counselors with online professional development opportunities that may be used during staff professional development days. Indiana school counselors and agency partners developed these free training modules which require between one and two hours to complete and allow participants to earn Professional Growth Points for license renewal.
    •  Click here for instructions for enrolling in a Moodle course
    • Topics include:
      • Creating Trauma Informed Schools
      • Suicide: A Moodle for School Counselors
      • Vocational Rehabilitation 101
      • Addressing Bullying as a School Counselor
      • Demand Driven Counseling: What Employers Are Seeking Now and in the Future
      • Serving Military Families Together
      • College and Career Readiness is Elementary
      • 21st Century Scholars
      • Academic Remediation for Students
      • Conducting a High School Grief Group
      • Confidentiality and the Use of Technology
      • Counselors Closing the Achievement Gap
      • Ethical Boundaries in the New Age of Technology
      • Ethical Considerations for Indiana Educators
      • Implementing a Freshman Mentoring Program
      • Indiana Career Explorer
      • Middle School Here I Come!
      • Organization, Goal-Setting & Time Management
      • Raising Student Achievement
      • School Counseling Response to Economic Crisis
      • Student Assistance Services and the Privacy of Minors
      • Student Connectedness
      • Supporting English Learners
      • The Role of the Student Assistance Professional in the New Era of RTI
      • Trauma-Informed Care for Educators
      • Understanding the Grief of Children and Teenagers

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