moving your district's professional development online

Moving Your District’s Professional Development OnlineKeystone TICJune, 2015

Evan Abbey – eabbey@aeapdonline.org

Melissa Wicklund– mwicklund@aeapdonline.org

Why are you here?

What challenges do you have with delivering professional development?

What about this presentation made it sound worth coming to?

PersonalizedFacilitated

Personalized“Individual” centered, choice/autonomyOften not an instructor presence (serves more as mentor/advisor)Independent pacingAuthentic performances & portfolio

Data & Student Choices = curriculum driverStudent driven assessmentApplication/Creation LearningModular

Facilitated“Class” centered

Instructor presence

Collaboration with studentsStructured, set timeframe and pacingSet curriculum = driver

Teacher driven assessmentTransactional LearningHolistic (Set Outcomes)

Case Study #1PanoramaFocusing on Digital Citizenship

Looking to support a new 1:1 initiative, especially at lower elementary/ms

Having difficulty finding time to offer professional development face-to-face

Introduction to SPCs

Digital Citizenship: Overview

Cyberbullying & Online Safety

Digital Literacy

Digital Netiquette

Digital Security

Conclusion (Final Activity)

Self-Paced = $60/credit

license renewal

Case Study #2CharitonLooking to require staff to read the staff handbook, code of ethics, acceptable use policy

Wanting to avoid paper collection and wasting face-to-face professional development time.

Case Study #2aPrairie Lakes AEALooking to require staff to take certain trainings for Human Resources requirement

Having some specific processes and agency items not met by current trainings, but too time consuming to pull people in for a face-to-face training

Case Study #3Woodward-GrangerLooking to provide professional development to non-teachers

Like PLAEA, needing to meet certain areas specific to their district

Looking to offer credit

Case Study #4GilbertLooking to provide a more intensive professional development experience than self-paced trainings

Focusing on Todd Whitaker’s What Great Teachers Do Differently

Site-Based Facilitated Courses1. Customized for your district,

available to your staff only

2. Individual-Paid = $85/credit license renewal, $130 or $160/grad

3. District-Paid = $1000/credit for 20 participants (or via partnership with AEA 1). $25/credit license renewal, $45 or $75/grad.http://bit.ly/aeapdonlinecatalog

Facilitated Site-Based Courses

• Project-Based Learning• Project-Based Assessment• Student Collaboration• Leadership in a Project-Based Environment• Mobile Learning• Using Data

Facilitated Site-Based Courses

• Examining: 7 Keys to Comprehension• Examining: Robust Vocabulary Instruction• Examining: Poverty in Our Back Yard• Examining: The Myth of Laziness• Examining: Bullying from Both Sides• Examining: Managing Noncompliance in the ClassroomSee the full list at http://bit.ly/examiningcourses

Case Study #5TLC Statewide Comm.Looking to offer professional development support for individuals

Wishing to supplement formal learning opportunities with informal ones

Case Study #6Cedar RapidsLooking to offer blended and online learning to students

Needing a train-the-trainer environment

• Dedicated to Online Teacher Preparation and Professional Development

• Launched in 2010

• Foundational Course Series

• Cohort Models

• Mentoring & Practicum

• Online Community of Practice

• Intro to the Online Learner

• Technology for Online Instruction

• Instructional Design

• Facilitation

• Assessment, Feedback & Evaluation

Putting it all together

How can we utilize online learning with

our employees?