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Each student is to participate as a leader and observer in at least 15 hours of clinical experiences in professional development in a K-12 school setting. Such efforts will include a videotaped implementation of staff development activities by candidate; edited videotape shared during TIE575 class session, followed by personal reflection.

Professional Development Activity
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 * 1) Develop a Professional Development activity that addresses the staff development needs of educators in a their particular educational setting. You will use the Technology Training Session Minimum Guidelines linked below.
 * This project will involve planning of staff development activities and resources designed to address actual areas of need at your school as identified by the you through a need assessment.
 * You will create evaluation measures to determine the effectiveness of your staff development activities.
 * Each staff development plan will be presented to the members of this TIE 575 class for peer review, subject to a rubric based on staff development standards.
 * Additionally, you will create a web site to introduce, support, and/or follow-up on professional development activities conducted by the candidate (Benchmark Assignment for TIE Program

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Assessing Your School's Professional Development Needs
Students will prepare and conduct a needs based assessment survey for use in preparing their Professional Development Activity. This needs assessment can be either paper or digital form. If you are thinking about digital, I suggest using a Google Docs form. This work may be done individually or in pairs. If you use a paper assessment, I will need to see it. If your needs assessment is digital, I will need the link e-mailed to me (russ.revzan@nl.edu.) What to think about and look for... @http://drapestakes.blogspot.com/2007/11/educational-technology-needs-assessment.html @http://www.tcet.unt.edu/insight/ilib/ttnas/ aimee8.myweb.uga.edu/assign/EDIT6320/TeacherSurvey.doc @http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=lSsWCYRNQ56LYjmZiaIuwA_3d_3d