Welcome Message

Dear Alabama Teacher or Administrator:

The Alabama Department of Education is happy to make available to you this professional development module. Created as part of Alabama's Teacher Quality Enhancement Project, these modules are intended to help you augment your knowledge and skills in the PEPE competencies and indicators. These competencies and indicators are the descriptions of teaching performance that serve as the basis for the PEPE Teacher Evaluation System. As you know, this information is based on research in effective teaching; i.e., teaching that produces student learning and best practice in Alabama classrooms and classrooms throughout the country.

We hope that this module, and the others that you may study, will be an enjoyable approach to professional growth. More importantly, however, we hope that it will be valuable to you and, ultimately, to those you teach.