In my opinion, the greatest professional development sessions are those that come early in the morning over coffee at the xerox machine. They're the ones that are held during lunch in another colleague's classroom. They sneak up on you at casual nights out for a random dinner at a local spot. They're on twitter, facebook, blogs, and at events prepared by and for real teachers, active or retired!
Real and useful professional developments end with teachers having the very real and practical tools necessary to improve upon one's classroom practice or try out a new and exciting idea, game, website or book the very next day!
If you've never taught, or it's been a month of Sundays since you were last in the classroom, or you are a 5-week trained/2 year old "experienced" teacher, you need to get somewhere and sit down! Let the real teachers do the work!
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