Blue Ocean Shift: Evidence-Based Practice in the Professional Development of Teachers

Abstract

With the implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in the United States, teachers have been given new responsibilities tied to supporting student scholastic and behavioral needs. The recent implementation of ESSA has left educators with minimal professional development support options to acquire skills to support students under this Act. To meet the diverse professional needs of teachers, it is necessary to look toward new cost-effective methods for professional development that stretch beyond in-person trainings, and that will prepare teachers to support the scholastic and behavioral needs of all learners. The authors propose incorporating the Blue Ocean Shift (BOS) strategy to identify alternative methods for teacher development. BOS comes from the business setting and is a strategy used in market development. The authors apply BOS to education through exposing its applicability as an assessment process. This assessment process can support the identification and development of online teaching tools for supporting multi-tiered systems of supports (MTSS) coaches in their training of teachers for school improvement efforts. The authors analyze the current professional development options provided to teachers and evaluate the use of BOS to determine innovative practices that MTSS coaches can implement to develop teacher skills and promote student learning.

Realización profesional en docentes de Lima Este en un contexto de emergencia sanitaria COVID-19

“…Frente a esta problemática, en el país Ghana se viene realizando programas de preparación continua de los docentes en servicio, buscando la mejora de su desarrollo profesional (Chitiyo, et ál., 2019). Asimismo, los países desarrollados como Canadá, EE.UU., Australia y Japón han destinado en forma continua grandes fondos para el desarrollo y preparación de sus docentes (Ajani, 2020); en los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica a través de la implementación de la Ley "Éxito de Todo Estudiante" (ESSA), los profesores han recibido nuevas responsabilidades relacionadas con el apoyo a las necesidades escolares y de comportamiento de los estudiantes; frente este escenario, todos los docentes deben continuar formándose y buscando su crecimiento profesional hasta lograr realizarse en su ámbito laboral (Nelson & Bohanon 2019).…”