issues in online professional development
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Issues in Online Professional Development. Building an Online Community PD Challenges for Blended Learning. Professional Development Activities. Facilitator Training. ETLO – 1 st PD for all online instructors Components: Facilitated course (usually six weeks before beginning employment) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Issues in Online Professional Development
Building an Online CommunityPD Challenges for Blended Learning
Professional Development ActivitiesActivity Type When Optional/Mandatory DescriptionTeacher Week F2F August Mandatory New teachers - 5 days
Returning teachers - 3 days
Facilitator Intro (7 weeks)
Virtual Varies Mandatory Initial training for all instructors
Adv. Facilitator (3 weeks)
Virtual Varies Mandatory - FT Optional - PT
Virtual learning community
Mission Control Virtual Continuous Mandatory-Tricks Trade Optional - all other boards
Discussion Boards/Learning community
Webconference Sessions
Virtual Bi-Monthly Optional Variety of topics hosted by admin and team leaders - archived for those who can’t attend live
Faculty Meetings
Virtual Weekly Mandatory Thursdays at 7 pm via Elluminate Archived for those who can’t attend live
Department Meetings
Virtual Monthly Mandatory Hosted by team leaders
AP seminars / workshops
F2F/Virtual Varies Mandatory Week long seminars every 5 years Full day workshop every 2 years
Webinars Virtual Varies Optional Hosted by ETLO, SREB, NACOL
Teacher Mentor Program
F2F/Virtual Continuous Mandatory for New Teachers
Paired with experienced teachers/Meet regularly/Enrolled in courses
Facilitator Training
• ETLO – 1st PD for all online instructors• Components:– Facilitated course (usually six weeks before
beginning employment)– Experimentation course for practice of concepts – Project based (planning template)
Mission Control• Content area - All reference documents, forms and how-to’s
• Tricks of the Trade – A place for colleagues to seek and to offer general instructional support as well as discuss best practices for online learning
• Faculty Bulletin Board - A place to share non-instructional news with colleagues
• News Articles of Interest - This is a place to post news articles either in print or online that may be of interest to the online learning world
• Department Forums – Science, Social Studies, English/Humanities, World Languages
• Book Forum - discussions (voluntary)
Virtual Virginia
At this point we appear to have a
19th century curriculum,
20th century buildings and organizations
and 21st century students facing an undefined futureBruce Wellman, MiraVia, LLC http://www.miravia.com/index.html
Blended Learning
Blended learning is anytime a student learns at least in part at a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home and at least in part through online delivery with some student control over time, place, path, and/or pace.
http://www.innosightinstitute.org/innosight/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/The-Rise-of-K-12-Blended-Learning.pdf
Six Models of Integration• Face-to-face Driver
Teacher driven in a f2f environment with supplemental online resources
• Flex: Most of the content is online with tutoring in a f2f classroom• Rotation: Students rotate between f2f and online within the same
course• Self-blend: Students are online after hours on their own initiative• Online driver: Content is online and students meet with f2f
occasionally• Online lab: Students in computer lab with mentor during school
day and teacher is online
http://www.innosightinstitute.org/innosight/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/The-Rise-of-K-12-Blended-Learning.pdf
Blended Learning: Pros
• Increased teacher effectiveness – Teachers trained in online delivery are more successful (http://www.bc.edu/research/intasc/researchprojects/eLearning/efe.shtml)
• Increased content access for students – anytime, anywhere content
• Increased interaction with instructor – f2f and virtually – home and school
• Potential for students to work at individual pace with greater control of their own learning
Implementation Issues
• Curriculum and resources• Tools training – teachers and students• Facilitation/support – school and home– Role of parents/guardians
• Technology access – alternatives– Backup for lack of access
• Pedagogical support for teachers – Initial and Ongoing
• Resistance to change
Blended Learning Instructor Support
• Blending Learning or Integrating Technology?• Designing a “new” classroom • Putting the puzzle pieces together (ie. Student,
classroom, parent)• Dynamic curriculum• Rethinking traditional bricks-and-mortar policies• Automation of manual tasks (data entry)• Other
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34879177@N00/4097747722/
Resources• http://www.marcandangel.com/2010/11/15/1
2-dozen-places-to-self-educate-yourself-online/
• http://www.montereyinstitute.org/nroc/ • http://www.innosightinstitute.org/innosight/
wp-content/uploads/2011/01/The-Rise-of-K-12-Blended-Learning.pdf
• http://www.inacol.org/research/promisingpractices/NACOL_PP-BlendedLearning-lr.pdf