Design your own professional development activity for CEUs
Follow our step-by-step explanation, view some sample activities, and learn how to complete the proposal form to design a professional development activity that meets your learning needs!
Professional Development in CT....leaving teachers behind?
Read about CEA's latest survey of professional development in our districts, and what your local can do to work toward more meaningful PD for its members.
Conferencing with Aggressive Parents
View this presentation that discusses why parents become aggressive with teachers, view video vignettes of teachers dealing with such parents, and get suggestions for how you can work more successfully with parents.
Teacher Reflection...what do you think?
View this presentation with audio to explore what typically lies behind a teacher's reflections on teaching, and ways to enhance the reflection process to have a greater impact on teaching and learning
Life After BEST...getting involved in our associations
Once the BEST program is behind you, your growth as a teacher can come via many avenues. View and listen to this presentation to learn how to use your interests to get involved in your professional associations and open doors to professional growth.
Putting the 'professional' in 'professional development'
Read about 4 factors that can contribute greatly to, or have a serious negative effect on, a district's professional development plan and process, and what your local can do to advocate for more effective practices.
Effective professional development planning
Using multiple learning formats in professional development
Building an accountability system for professional development
Creating an effective evaluation process for professional development
CEA/CEU Partner Program
Does your local have teachers that need reading and/or technology CEUs in order to renew their professional certificates? CEA can help. See the CEA/CEU Partner Program 
CEA Learning Opportunities:
CEA published a booklet describing 23 professional development sessions offered to all CEA members. The sessions are presented by CEA headquarters staff and can be tailored to your needs and time allowances.
Download or view the booklet "Professional growth a la CEA....not just another workshop!" , and see the 23 learning programs available to you as a CEA member.
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Professional Development information:
Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development (ASCD) – conferences, workshops, videos, online PD, & more
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse web links – professional resources - research information, materials for creating professional development presentations, online magazines and journals, and more
National Staff Development Council (NSDC) – workshops, conferences, books, general staff development information
Tech Times – technology training through the CT regional education service centers
On line professional development opportunities:
Classroom Management on line course with Harry & Rosemary Wong – based on their book “The first 100 days of teaching”
qConcept to Classroom - a series of free, self-paced workshops on a variety of topics; includes use of video clips, lesson plan formats, and questions for reflection
NASA TV – short TV broadcasts on specific topics, grouped by student age level
qNational Humanities Center – a library of seminar ‘toolboxes,’ to help teachers use primary resources to study specific topics in American history
PBS Teacherline - facilitated professional development opportunities in all subject areas, technology, curriculum mapping, and instructional strategies, for teachers preK-12
Teacher-to-Teacher workshops - free on-line versions (includes video) of workshops sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education
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