PD Credit for #OklaEd Twitter Chat Participation?

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While surfing Twitter today, I stumbled across this conversation on the #edtechchat hastag and was intrigued. Can teachers earn credit for the hours we spend engaging with other teachers across our state via Twitter?

If we earned just one credit per hour, that would account for 50+ hours of professional development in a year.

Read the storified chat below to see what some school districts have done to credit their teachers with the personal time their spending on Twitter to further their professional development.

Source: PD Credit for Twitter Chat Participation (with tweets) · watersenglish · Storify

Related topics: Professional Development

About the author 

Michelle Boyd Waters, M.Ed.

Michelle Boyd Waters is the founder of reThink ELA, where she creates research-informed resources that help middle and high school English teachers build stronger communities of readers and writers. After teaching secondary English for 10 years, Michelle has continued working alongside educators and students as a university composition instructor, writing center director, teacher consultant for the Oklahoma Writing Project, and mentor to new teachers. Her work brings together classroom experience, literacy research, and writing center pedagogy to create practical resources that support authentic reading, meaningful writing, and student voice. Through reThink ELA, she helps teachers create classrooms where both students and educators can thrive.

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