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

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• Your Technology Staff Development Plan must be dictated . . . by your staffs needs and by your institutions technology plan.

Contents of a Staff Dev Plan

8. Staff Needs

• Assessment Instrument

• • Tech Needs Assessment Questionnaire

• Analyze in spreadsheet

• • Schoolwide

• • 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

• • Tech budget

• • District Staff development

• • Staff Improvement funds

11. Planning the Program

• What to cover in staff dev

• • Perform gap analysis

• • Results-driven staff development.

• Who to include

• • Don't limit it to the teachers

• • 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

• • Location of workshop

• • Materials & equipment

• • Materials available to attendees upon return to daily life

15. Limiting Factors

• Time

• • Length

• • During school hours?

• • Free time given to attendees for planning to use newly-acquired skills

16. Limiting Factors

• Planning

• • Good planning = Good staff dev.

• Money isn't THE problem

• • 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

• • Sometimes necessary

• • Good to use as introduction

• • Provides common baseline of knowledge

19. Mandatory vs Voluntary

• Voluntary

• • Better attitude about it

• • Not everyone is involved

• • Highly motivated

20. Compensation vs. No-Compensation

• Compensation

• • Identifies high level of importance placed by admin

• • 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

• • Monetary compensation - not an issue

• • Faculty in-service days

• • Early release days

• • Technology Super Subs

23. During vs. Outside School Hours

• Not during school hours

• • Out-of-hide time

• • Only highly-motivated teachers attend (unless mandatory)

24. Workshops

• When

• • Before - After School

• • Early Release Days

• • 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

• • What additional information needed?

33. Evaluate the Complete Staff Development Program

• Attendance

• • Which workshops have appeal

• • Who attended?

• • Specific groups like specific topics?

• Workshop Evaluations

• • Satisfied with instruction?

• • What works? What doesnt?

34.

• Word of Mouth

• • Word on the Street?

• • Is it valued?

• • Develop an informal network

• • Use secretaries and other staff members

Evaluate the Complete Staff Development Program

35. Evaluate the Change in the Staffs Skills

• Real test of success

• Look for application and actual changes

• Survey staff after 2 months:

• • 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

• • Rethinking learning process

• • Restructuring learning environment

• • Educators who want to change . . .

39. Summation

• Staff Development requires:

• • Needs Assessment

• • Planning

• • Policy Decisions

• • Administrative Support

• • Careful Scheduling

• • Multiple Forms of Media

• • Evaluation and Revision

40. Any Questions?