18 Jun Professional development capacity is a term used to describe ongoing, engaging, meaningful, evidence-based learning experiences that support such individual and school growth. Understanding
Professional development capacity is a term used to describe ongoing, engaging, meaningful, evidence-based learning experiences that support such individual and school growth.
Understanding how to increase the quality and outcomes of professional learning and building capacity to reach colleagues through evidence-based professional development is necessary to help with individual and school growth.
Part 1
Administer the “Needs Assessment Survey” created in EDU-586 to 10-15 colleagues via an electronic survey platform. The data from this survey will be the basis of your Topic 2 assignment. Include the link to the survey at the end of your narrative.
Part 2
In a 500-750 word narrative, explain the importance of building professional development capacity.
Your narrative should include:
- What is the purpose and importance of building capacity within your school for job–embedded professional development ?
- What experiences have you had with job-embedded professional development within your school?
- How does professional development support school improvement, district improvement, and change within your organization?
- What models or strategies could you use to build professional development capacity and job-embedded professional development into your school ?
Support your narrative with 1-2 scholarly resources.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide
Running head: TITLE OF YOUR PAPER
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Needs Assessment Survey
Briana Jenkins
Grand Canyon Universitiy
EDU-585
Dr. Potts
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Needs Assessment Survey
Questionnaire Link
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1v8N90kF7thzr_e2o3hnC7epL9-Y77sJnsF0hv8QkVlY/edit
Relevance of Topic to Organization
Among the best practices, the mentioned topics are even closer to reality as our organization operates in certain workplace conditions and encounters specific professional development issues. For example, “1. Communication Skills” is critical as it focuses on the timely and accurate interchange of ideas when completing the project or fulfilling a contract between the team members, the clients, and the stakeholders. Likewise, “2. Leadership and Management Training” is relevant for our organization because leadership is essential for developing and implementing plans, generating ideas, and improving the effects of teams in an organization. Additionally, “7. Project Management Skills” could prove invaluable as it relates to our execution of projects and the management of resources so that goals are achieved on time and within the allocated financial resources. These topics are consistent with our vision to be an excellent provider of services that are responsive to the needs of our clients and maintain a positive organizational culture that should enhance productivity and efficiency.
Importance of Collaborating with Professionals
There are several reasons why professionals must work collaboratively to ascertain the professional development needs of the individual. On this account, it provides a road map for training efforts to be proactive and consequently more focused, and it addresses unique issues of proficiency developmental employee training. This way, by engaging the active participation of the employees, an organization also acquires insights into the existing stock of skills and knowledge among the workforce to be used in the formation of development programs. Furthermore, working together leads to employee engagement, which makes employees far more willing to go through a training process and subsequently apply the acquired knowledge and expertise at the workplace.
Valid and Reliability of Tool
As for the tools that were created, which include the needs assessment survey and the satisfaction survey, such factors as validity and reliability can be achieved through the following key features. First, the questions that should be put in the surveys are selected carefully so that the feedback can encompass the entire range of topics and skills fields that can be of significant importance for a particular student or any other person (Ahmad et al., 2020). Moreover, using the Likert scale in the surveys employed in the study enables participants to give subtly different experiences in their ratings, such as agreement satisfaction (Zajac et al., 2021). The quantitative data is thus helpful in identifying specific areas of interest and preferences regarding topics that may be of interest in professional development and the most preferred training sessions.
Moreover, using open-ended questions in the surveys gives participants the chance to provide qualitative feedback and detailed information concerning the course of the procedure and the directions on how to enhance it if needed. The overall approach of the research also makes sense since it incorporates both quantitative data and qualitative information, increasing the external and internal credibility of the findings. In general, the multiple surveys and the cautious approach to the question construction and possible answers increase the study’s credibility and reliability of the data collected, thus making the obtained feedback reflect the actual situation and being able to respond to it.
References
Ahmad, N. F. D., Ren Jye, A. K., Zulkifli, Z., & Bujang, M. A. (2020). The Development and Validation of Job Satisfaction Questionnaire for Health Workforce. Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences, 27(6), 128–143. https://doi.org/10.21315/mjms2020.27.6.12
Zajac, S., Woods, A., Tannenbaum, S., Salas, E., & Holladay, C. L. (2021). Overcoming Challenges to Teamwork in Healthcare: a Team Effectiveness Framework and Evidence-Based Guidance. Frontiers in Communication, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.606445
