Social Learning to Augment Professional Development

Social Learning has been found to be an effective professional development tool, even more efficient than formal in-class trainings that rely on handouts and presentations. There are actually new tools to help harness this type of information sharing while giving analytics to improve the process. This AETP will offer an updated process for peer (teacher to teacher) observation that will emphasize social learning and assist teachers in sharing their knowledge with colleagues and in turn themselves learn from peers.