PLOT

PLOT professional support is entirely flexible to suit your school:

• full day workshops with Joan Dalton, David Anderson or Mel Stopford
• one year’s access to the PLOT website including the newly developed facilitation site
• face-to-face school visits by Mel Stopford, CORE Education
• phone and email support from both Joan and David in Australia and Mel here in NZ

Contact Mel to discuss how PLOT is currently supporting both primary and secondary schools across New Zealand.

The PLOT website
PLOT (Professional Learning Online Tool) provides access to one of the foremost professional development websites for the teaching profession. The content of the PLOT website has been developed over 20 years by Australians, Joan Dalton and David Anderson, as a result of their long-term work with schools. Joan and David work worldwide as consultants, professional learning facilitators, keynote presenters, and project management specialists.

This incredible online resource powerfully combines high-quality pedagogy resources with the tools, strategies, and processes to grow a strong professional community within and among schools.

Based on current learning theory and best practice, PLOT’s multiple pathways enable you to:

• target and address your school priorities and issues
• tailor professional learning to your particular needs and context.

With these tools, you can directly affect the learning and achievement of students by facilitating teacher professional learning that is directly connected to the improvement of classroom practice.

Our support
This support programme offers your leadership team the unique opportunity of working directly with Joan Dalton and David Anderson over time in face-to-face, ongoing workshops, along with follow-up school visits by Mel Stopford CORE Education.

The research has shown that this facilitation support is vital in embedding whole school change and development, enhancing leadership and facilitator capability and best utilising all that the PLOT website has to offer.

PLOT in New Zealand
Having managed the very successful ICT PD Cluster programme for several years, CORE Education recognised the need for participating schools to continue and sustain the professional development journey they had embarked on. PLOT was seen as a valuable resource and one that could meet this need. A decision was made to conduct a pilot PLOT project in New Zealand to test the resource and also assess the role facilitation played in its effectiveness.

Mel Stopford joined the CORE team in 2005. She was introduced to PLOT whilst exploring the issue of professional development sustainability during her e-fellow year in 2004. She took on the role of project leader for the pilot study and became a passionate advocate for high quality professional learning through face to face workshops, site based visits and online support through PLOT PD.

What does the research show?
Without exception, the participating leaders that trialled PLOT for their school commented positively on the quality of the resource, its wealth of information for effective professional learning, and the high level of facilitation provided at the workshops.

• “Now I see what you mean! PLOT is an amazing resource to have access to. “

• “It’s helped us put the pieces of our learning model puzzle together.
• “It is so deep, thorough, and comprehensive and it is all there for you; readings, workshops, quotes – the lot!”
• “I definitely have a greater understanding of our own school journey…it has clarified a lot off the decisions and issues that we need to address.”
• “Staff are now working collectively – it’s changed our whole school culture”.
• “I’d like to say that this is the best PD I’ve ever had.”
• “The facilitation in the past three days has been of the highest quality I have had the privilege to be involved in – thanks for this opportunity.”
• “Joan and David have been amazing. The role modelling, ideas, challenges, provoking discussions, dialogue and professionalism have been inspirational.”

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