My Calendar Tool: This tool assists you in managing professional development
resources and events that are time sensitive (conferences, submission deadlines) and
may have a fixed duration or lifespan for which they are accessible (subscription renewals
expiration dates). The My Calendar tool is automatically populated as you select certain
professional development opportunities, and also allows you to enter dates for your own
events. Reminders will be made available if desired. This tool helps you track your PD
opportunities in a ‘monthly’ visual layout format. As you enter events on your calendar
you will have the option of selecting how they fit within your professional development
plan if desired.
My Library Tool is designed to help you organize all your Learning Center
resources. You can keep track of what you’ve selected; and stay on top of
subscriptions. My Library will auto-populate (that is, fill itself in automatically)
once you start selecting your resources. Best of all, no matter which computer you
are working at, you will always have your resources. In the future these resources
may be sorted and further subdivided into smaller personalized libraries that may
then be shared with other educators if you desire to do so.
My Library will
- Link to the digital resources you select, such as individual NSTA journal articles, SciGuides, Science Objects, or book chapters.
- Identify resources that are subscription-based, such as NSTA SciPacks and SciGuides.
- Notify you of subscriptions that are about to expire.
- Auto-populate from the Professional Development Portfolio once you have selected and acquired a resource or service.
- Allow you to forward and share your library—including your personalized annotated notes for each resource—with colleagues.
My Notepad is designed to let you create personalized notes for any product or resource within your own section of My Library.
My Notepad will:
- Allow your annotations to appear next to each resource you choose to mark. For example, you can make a note about a teaching tip you want to try the next time you use a certain resource, or you can remind yourself to use the resource in conjunction with another item found within your library.
- Allow you to sort and collect your notes in an organized way as they build over time.
My Professional Development Plan & Portfolio (PDP) allows you to create a personalized plan that
outlines your professional development experiences over a period of time, describing how you
will support increased student learning through your increased teacher knowledge and skills.
It allows you to voluntarily upload portfolio materials, such as samples of student work or
augmented lesson plans, and generate written reflections that demonstrate and support your
growth over time as you complete your professional development plan (PDP).
Click on this link to download a PDF file describing the various features of this dynamic new PD tool.
* Update: My Professional Development Plan & Portfolio (PDP) will be launched and available for use in late February 2008
to all registered users of The NSTA Learning Center.
My Transcript is designed to let you access your records of participation indefinitely
as part of your individual profile. You may print your transcripts directly from this website
and present them to an administrator who requires documentation that you participated in an NSTA conference.
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Transcript Availability
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| Boston National Conference |
Now |
| Detroit Area Conference |
Now |
| Denver Area Conference |
Now |
| Birmingham Area Conference |
Now |
| St Louis National Conference |
Now |
Transcripts can be printed from this website and presented to an administrator who
requires documentation of participation in the convention. All information in these
transcripts will be maintained (and can be accessed) indefinitely as part of an
attendee’s individual profile.
The Professional Development Indexer helps you diagnose your needs in specific content areas and provides suggestions of NSTA e-PD resources and opportunities you may want to consider as you plan your professional development growth over time. The Indexer does not assign a grade or present a score to the questions you answer, but saves a list of recommended resources for later review.