Facilitate Professional Development

The ANGEL Learning Management Suite’s (LMS) flexibility allows schools and districts to implement and deliver professional development programs to meet locally identified objectives. The ANGEL LMS also helps make school administration aware of staff needs in professional development by providing data about current instructional methods, curriculum alignment, and student engagement and performance. Districts can prepare school improvement plans and deliver them with the ANGEL LMS.

Support Professional Learning Communities

The ANGEL LMS provides a host of benefits to those institutions supporting a Professional Learning Community (PLC). Schools and districts can stimulate the development of rich, interactive communities of professionals by organizing groups of professional development participants in ANGEL.

ANGEL's communication and collaboration capabilities enable more frequent sharing of ideas and best practices. Groups hold virtual discussions, eliminating the need for participants to meet face-to-face. Discussion groups can be organized by grade level, subject area, school, across the district, however you choose to foster peer-to-peer and mentor-to-peer professional relationships. What's more, ANGEL's signature ease of use fosters acceptance and buy-in by teachers uncomfortable with technology.

The ANGEL LMS framework allows for schools and districts to develop instructional leaders from within who present and facilitate professional development activities for their peers. ANGEL gives the leaders space to disseminate news, have on-line meetings, and communicate with their peers.

Deliver Professional Development Content

With ANGEL, your professional and skills development efforts don't need to be isolated, static, or short-term events. The ability to access professional development resources online, anytime develops a culture of continued professional growth.

Professional development resources can be stored in ANGEL's learning object repositories, and teachers can complete required classwork independently online when it’s convenient for them. They can register for courses on-line, access work they have placed in their portfolios, view their journals, participate in threaded discussions, download documents, and engage in other custom-designed learning experiences.

Develop ANGEL Expertise

Becoming familiar with ANGEL in a professional development environment helps teachers understand the benefits of implementing ANGEL in the traditional classroom and instills confidence to do so. Once they've learned how to use ANGEL by doing, they are much more willing and able to implement its use in the classroom.

Case Study

Learn how Sarasota County Schools adopted the ANGEL LMS to offer professional development and help teachers become familiar with online learning. Now, teachers are "excited about using ANGEL" in their classrooms.

Enable Teacher Accountability

When used for delivery of professional development content, the ANGEL LMS promotes teacher accountability by allowing the administration access to participation reports. These reports track classes started and completed, assessment information, and comprehensive usage summaries and data reports. Teachers can align Individual Professional Development Plan goals to state professional board standards and individual school improvement goals.

ANGEL's course surveys also provide a powerful accountability tool. Adminstrators can solicit feedback on instructional style, evaluate student and class progress, and assess individual instructor performance.

Through the use of ANGEL ePortfolio, an integrated option to the ANGEL LMS, teachers can also develop their own teaching portfolios. ANGEL ePortfolio allows teachers to collect and store digital artifacts of their learning and use rubrics to measure their performance against defined objectives, such as school improvement plan goals or state professional standards boards.

Capabilities within ANGEL ePortfolio allow districts to collect authentic data demonstrating teacher proficiencies. Administrators are able to access curriculum and examples of teachers’ success stories, and engage in genuine, evidence-based professional development discussions. ANGEL collects and stores a wealth of data, certifying what professional or skills development teachers have gained.

ANGEL Remote Instructor-Led Training

ANGEL Learning offers remotely-delivered, instructor-led training that can be integrated into an overall professional development program. Instructor-led training allows participants to learn about ANGEL products and interact “live” with ANGEL Learning’s professional trainers from the comfort of their desks. Each hands-on training session is conducted in two-hour segments allowing participants to practice what they learn and address questions in consecutive sessions. Participants need only a phone and a computer with an internet connection to participate. Topics available include:

• Instructor Fundamentals – creates a deep understanding of ANGEL's most commonly used content development and learning management features.
• Using Agents, Tokens and Environment Variables – discover the power of ANGEL’s agents, tokens and environment variables to customize the student learning experience, automate personalized feedback, create individualized learning paths and more.
• Using Repositories, Master Courses and Content Templates – learn the benefits of using learning object repositories, master courses and content templates to reuse class content and design templates across multiple classes, departments and schools.
• ANGEL Gradebook – this session introduces efficient grading strategies using gradebook and content manager features and applying various grading schemes using the ANGEL gradebook.
• Using Assessments & Question Banks – learn the ins and outs of creating, grading and reviewing assessments; adding and maintaining keywords for assessments and questions; and building, searching and maintaining question banks.
• Managing Learning Outcomes – participants will discuss and learn the use of standards and objectives to achieve learning outcomes within the ANGEL LMS.

ANGEL Evergreen Training

ANGEL's Evergreen Training is another option that can be integrated into an overall professional development program. Evergreen Training provides the school or district with on-demand training in their local ANGEL LMS environment, allowing the organization to train faculty and staff whenever and how often as they like. The rich, engaging content is customizable, allowing the organization to train users on just what they want them to know.