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Planning, Building, Presenting & Evaluating a Staff Development Program for Technology Leigh Zeitz Coordinating Technology in Educational Settings
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- 1. Planning, Building, Presenting & Evaluating a Staff Development Program for Technology Leigh Zeitz Coordinating Technology in Educational Settings
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- The Question is . . .
- What is Staff Development?
- What do YOU think?
- 3.
- Staff Development is . . .
- An organized process in which employees are actively engaged in
- acquiring, upgrading or abandoning
- knowledge, attitudes & skills
- 4. Elements of a Tech Staff Development Plan
- Integration of emerging technologies
- Planned, ongoing, & comprehensive approach
- Involve the leaders
- 5. Elements of a Tech Staff Development Plan
- Technology-based learning environments
- Part of a Tech Plan
- 6.
- 7.
- Your Technology Staff Development Plan must be dictated . . . by your staffs needs and by your institutions technology plan.
- 8. Staff Needs
- Assessment Instrument
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- Tech Needs Assessment Questionnaire
- Analyze in spreadsheet
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- Schoolwide
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- By department
- 9. Student Needs
- Process writing
- Digital portfolios
- Cross-curricular thematic experiences
- Intercultural experiences
- Keyboarding
- Fulfill subject standards
- 10. Your Technology Staff Development Plan Depends Upon:
- Present hardware
- Networking
- Software
- Peopleware
- Additional Resources
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- Tech budget
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- District Staff development
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- Staff Improvement funds
- 11. Planning the Program
- What to cover in staff dev
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- Perform gap analysis
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- Results-driven staff development.
- Who to include
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- Don't limit it to the teachers
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- Include all stakeholders
- 12. Who are the stakeholders?
- Teachers
- Office Staff
- Administrators
- Support Staff
- Board Members
- Community Members
- 13. Often Staff Dev is Limited
- But, what are the factors that limit a successful staff development program?
- 14. Limiting Factors
- Resources
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- Location of workshop
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- Materials & equipment
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- Materials available to attendees upon return to daily life
- 15. Limiting Factors
- Time
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- Length
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- During school hours?
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- Free time given to attendees for planning to use newly-acquired skills
- 16. Limiting Factors
- Planning
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- Good planning = Good staff dev.
- Money isn't THE problem
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- Medium for acquiring resources, time and planning
- 17. Policy MUST be Decided 1st!
- Mandatory vs Voluntary
- Compensation vs.
- No-Compensation
- During School Hours vs.
- Outside School Hours
- 18. Mandatory vs Voluntary
- Mandatory
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- Sometimes necessary
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- Good to use as introduction
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- Provides common baseline of knowledge
- 19. Mandatory vs Voluntary
- Voluntary
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- Better attitude about it
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- Not everyone is involved
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- Highly motivated
- 20. Compensation vs. No-Compensation
- Compensation
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- Identifies high level of importance placed by admin
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- Professionalism
- 21. Types of Compensation
- Money
- Federal/state funds
- Credit
- Credit towards advancement
- Free Computers/Technology
- 22. During vs. Outside School Hours
- During school hours
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- Monetary compensation - not an issue
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- Faculty in-service days
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- Early release days
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- Technology Super Subs
- 23. During vs. Outside School Hours
- Not during school hours
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- Out-of-hide time
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- Only highly-motivated teachers attend (unless mandatory)
- 24. Workshops
- When
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- Before - After School
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- Early Release Days
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- Stipends for Summer Workshops
- 25. Presenting a Technology Staff Development Program
- Workshops are
- Not
- Enough!!!
- 26. Workshop Components
- Theory
- Demonstration
- Practice
- Feedback
- Coaching
- 27. Effects on Attendees
- Knowledge Level
- Skill Level
- Transfer of Workshop Learning to the Classroom
- 28. Joyce and Showers (1995)
- No Transfer of workshop learning to the classroom unless theory and practice was accompanied by feedback and/or coaching!
- 29. Strategies for Staff Development
- Redefine the Learner
- Teachers of Teachers
- Learning Through Other Media
- 30. Learning through Other Media
- Videotape
- Audiotape
- Computer-Based
- Instruction (CBI)
- Paper-Based Modules
- On-Line
- 31. Evaluation
- Each Workshop
- Whole Staff Dev Program
- Changes in Staff Skills
- Changes in Classroom Teaching Practice
- Improvements in Students Skills.
- 32. Evaluate Each Workshop
- Effectiveness of Instructor
- Workshop format
- Activities and Materials used
- Applicability of material covered
- Instrument for additional input
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- What additional information needed?
- 33. Evaluate the Complete Staff Development Program
- Attendance
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- Which workshops have appeal
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- Who attended?
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- Specific groups like specific topics?
- Workshop Evaluations
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- Satisfied with instruction?
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- What works? What doesnt?
- 34.
- Word of Mouth
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- Word on the Street?
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- Is it valued?
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- Develop an informal network
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- Use secretaries and other staff members
- 35. Evaluate the Change in the Staffs Skills
- Real test of success
- Look for application and actual changes
- Survey staff after 2 months:
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- Do you use the skill Often?, Sometimes, Rarely?
- If they use it, you were successful!
- 36. Look for Changes in Teaching Practice
- Look for relative change - Not Absolute
- Consider a Developmentally Appropriate Approach to Learning Technology
- 37. Improve Students Skills
- Only recently looking at student improvement to evaluate staff development.
- Ironic - only reason to do staff development is to improve the learning environment for students.
- 38. Improve Students Skills
- Involves a great deal of time.
- Look at Standards and Benchmarks.
- Requires
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- Rethinking learning process
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- Restructuring learning environment
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- Educators who want to change . . .
- 39. Summation
- Staff Development requires:
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- Needs Assessment
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- Planning
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- Policy Decisions
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- Administrative Support
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- Careful Scheduling
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- Multiple Forms of Media
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- Evaluation and Revision
- 40. Any Questions?