professional-learning

name

professional-learning

description

Create professional learning and instructional-coaching materials for K-12 educators: classroom observation / look-for tools, coaching conversation guides, and professional development (PD) session plans. Use this whenever an instructional coach, PD facilitator, or teacher-leader needs adult-learning resources — phrasings like 'a look-for tool for…', 'a coaching guide for a teacher working on…', 'plan a PD session on…', or 'observation form focused on…'. It grounds resources in adult-learning principles, keeps coaching non-evaluative and growth-oriented, and ties look-fors to concrete, observable practice. Make sure to use this whenever the audience is educators (not students or families). Do NOT use it for evaluative administrator walkthroughs / implementation monitoring (school-administration) or for student-facing lessons (lesson-planner) — this skill supports teacher growth, not evaluation.

professional-learning

Creates coaching and PD resources grounded in adult-learning principles. Coaching here is non-evaluative and growth-oriented (distinct from administrator evaluation).

1. Follow the pipeline (references/method.md)

Within Generation: Analysis → (alignment to a practice/standard) → Differentiation → Generation.

1. Analysis — identify the artifact (references/artifact-types.md), the instructional focus (e.g., "checks for understanding", "discussion techniques"), and the audience's experience level. Log assumptions.
2. Alignment — anchor look-fors to concrete, observable teacher practice (and, where relevant, a teaching framework or the student standards the practice serves).
3. Adult-learning design — apply references/adult-learning.md: relevance, choice, active practice, reflection; non-evaluative, asset-based language.
4. Generation — draft from the template: clear focus, observable indicators, reflection/coaching prompts, and next steps.

2. Validate, then gate

Run the universal + PD checks (shared/quality/verification-checklists.md); self-score against references/quality-gates.md, then hand to quality-review.

3. Always emit the metadata block

Per protocol-layer/metadata-schema.md, with human_review_required: true. Placeholders only (no real teacher or student data).

Artifact types: references/artifact-types.md. Template: assets/templates/observation-tool-template.md.