Major+Topics


 * Context-Based Goals and Outcomes of Staff Development in Educational Technology
 * Content should review and cover the following questions:
 * What local information will help to identify priority areas for in-depth professional growth?
 * Consider existing and desired conditions & competencies:
 * What is the current state of curriculum, instruction, assessment, learning environment or other practice?
 * What is the current state of professional development activities? Where are the strengths and needs?
 * What are the most significant differences between where we are now and where we want to go? (Gap Analysis)
 * What are the desired broad goals of this development initiative?
 * What are the contextual factors and organizational culture that will support or resist professional development efforts?
 * What information is critical to enable support from school or district leaders?
 * Professional Growth Activities in Educational Technology and Evaluation Methods
 * Theoretical Underpinnings of Professional Development and Organizational Change (e.g., CBAM, ACOT’s Stages of Concern, Four Stage Professional Renewal Cycle, KASAB, Everett Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovation)
 * Implications of Adult Learning Theory for Effective Professional Development
 * Levels to consider: individual, social/group, and organization
 * Adopting innovation: consider an innovation’s relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, trialability, observability (Everett Rogers)
 * Learning by both adults and children as a school’s focus
 * Current models of Professional Development in Educational Technology (e.g., in-house, online, learning circles, action research, peer coaching, outside leaders and partners, working for systemic change)
 * Designing professional Growth Activities – What needs to be done to achieve each identified goal and outcome?
 * Create goal statements for each identified gap in the analysis.
 * Describe desired outcomes.
 * Determine the content and specific skills to be developed.
 * Determine how the activity can be best facilitated – what strategies to use.
 * Who will perform the tasks?
 * Where will this take place and when?
 * Describe the indicators of success
 * Monitoring and Measuring professional development activities
 * Compose evaluative questions
 * Describe success indicators
 * Identify sources of data and data collection methods
 * Conduct Formative review
 * Impact of Staff Development on Teaching and Learning – How will we use evaluation data to determine the overall effectiveness of this professional development initiative?
 * Sharing results of evaluation data, with who and how.
 * Contribution to continued improvement
 * Determining the nature of decisions and conclusions that can be made
 * Learning Communities, Mentoring and Leadership Development, Capacity Building
 * What are the plans for dissemination and next steps – How will we share and build upon what we learn form these professional development experiences? What plans will be made for the dissemination of next steps? What activities might we use to further establish learning communities, develop leaders and build internal capacity?
 * Desired purpose
 * Content
 * Target audience
 * Specific Strategies
 * Identification of Critical Issues – What are the critical issues that will provide a lasting impact from this professional project?
 * Equal access to professional growth experiences
 * Strategies for building collegial professional communities
 * Identification of leadership roles and development of participants
 * Building internal capacity
 * Reaching significant numbers of educators
 * Reaching significant numbers of students
 * Building public/community support