Development Overview
Our professional development is designed to develop opportunities for our staff to enable constant improvement and growth. "The smartest person in the room is the room. We are smarter together." (Angela Maier's). Our offerings consist of a variety of opportunities for our educators to acquire and improve their content knowledge and classroom understandings.
The goal of professional development is to improve student achievement by enabling every staff member to develop the knowledge, skills and behaviours for improving instruction. While educators can, should, and do continually improve their skills through self-improvement efforts, systematic change requires collective and sustained efforts. A comprehensive professional development plan promotes student achievement by providing staff with directed and ongoing PD aligned with the major state, district and building goals. This alignment focuses efforts to provide systemic improvement.
Staff participation in professional development increases the probability that Gurushree Vidya Kendra will develop the capacity to prepare every student for college, a primary goal in the GSVK Strategic Plan, Excellence for All.