ACTION INQUIRY: What can we do to make technology staff development collaborative, job-embedded, and ongoing to enhance professional growth and student success?
GOAL: We need a method to help make technology staff development collaborative, job-embedded, and ongoing to enhance professional growth and student success? My site mentor is interested in utilizing all of the technology tools, programs, software, and equipment that we have available on our campus. But sometimes teachers do not have detailed instructions, technology lesson plans ideas, or helpful links to be able to utilize some of this campus technology. Many times there are yearly staff development meetings on some of this technology, but when the teachers get back to the classroom, they do not retain what they have learned in a brief staff development.
Our action inquiry is to research this topic; "What can we do to make technology staff development collaborative, job-embedded, and ongoing to enhance professional growth and student success?" We need a collaborative staff development method that won't take teachers out of their classrooms and is job-embedded and ongoing to help teachers be able to utilize technology for lesson enhancement and student success. We need a method to provide a location for administrators, teachers, and staff to collaborate, learn, share, post, technology instructions (Star Charts, Star Boards, Elmos, Neos, Clickers, Student Island), helpful ideas, lesson plan templates, Lesson Plan Cycle, READ 180, helpful technology sites, and helpful YouTubes, instructions for 2007 Microsoft Office, Test INOVA data, TEAMS report data, TAKS reviews for the purpose of technology staff development in a collaborative, job-embedded and ongoing method to enhance professional growth and student success.
Sampling/Data Collection: 71 teachers on our campus will be surveyed on current staff development methods and on measures to improve technology staff development. Interviews of other technology district directors/coordinators will be conducted and completed to compare other districts' technology staff development methods.
Our action inquiry is to research this topic; "What can we do to make technology staff development collaborative, job-embedded, and ongoing to enhance professional growth and student success?" We need a collaborative staff development method that won't take teachers out of their classrooms and is job-embedded and ongoing to help teachers be able to utilize technology for lesson enhancement and student success. We need a method to provide a location for administrators, teachers, and staff to collaborate, learn, share, post, technology instructions (Star Charts, Star Boards, Elmos, Neos, Clickers, Student Island), helpful ideas, lesson plan templates, Lesson Plan Cycle, READ 180, helpful technology sites, and helpful YouTubes, instructions for 2007 Microsoft Office, Test INOVA data, TEAMS report data, TAKS reviews for the purpose of technology staff development in a collaborative, job-embedded and ongoing method to enhance professional growth and student success.
Sampling/Data Collection: 71 teachers on our campus will be surveyed on current staff development methods and on measures to improve technology staff development. Interviews of other technology district directors/coordinators will be conducted and completed to compare other districts' technology staff development methods.
Rationale: In reading, Leading With Passion and Knowledge, Dana uses a quote from Roland Barth (1981) about the importance of staff development. "Nothing within a school has more impact upon students in terms of skills development, self-confidence, or classroom behavior than the personal professional growth of their teachers. When teachers examine, question, reflect on their ideas and develop new practices that lead towards their ideals, students are alive. When teachers stop growing, so do their students."
We want to review the Web site of the national Staff Development Council at http://www.nsdc.org/ to review the standarts for powerful professional development. Using this exercise noted in Leading With Passion and Knowledge we can look at our current school's staff development practices and inquire into methods to improve in this area. Fichman, Nancy Dana (2009). Leading with passion and knowledge:The principal as action Researcher.Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
We want to review the Web site of the national Staff Development Council at http://www.nsdc.org/ to review the standarts for powerful professional development. Using this exercise noted in Leading With Passion and Knowledge we can look at our current school's staff development practices and inquire into methods to improve in this area. Fichman, Nancy Dana (2009). Leading with passion and knowledge:The principal as action Researcher.Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
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