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Providing a Continuum of Professional Development

• Jim Lesko
• Delaware Department of Education
• Nan Vendegna
• Colorado Department of Education

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Continuum of Training Selecting Topics

• Get out there and ask!
• Survey prospective training recipients
• Make no assumptions
• Consider a broad array of training topics

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Continuum of Training Selecting Topics

• State Perspectives

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Continuum of Training Topics to Consider

• Assessment Measures
• Performance Based Assessment
• Observation
• Documentation
• Interviewing
• Interpretation
• Translation into Intervention
• Linking to Instruction

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Continuum of Training Selecting Topics

• State Perspectives

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Continuum of Training Participant Focus

• Early Childhood Special Education Teachers
• Therapists
• Speech and language
• Physical/Occupational
• Psychologists
• Early Care and Education Teachers and Assistants
• Families
• Administrators

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Continuum of Training Participant Focus
State Perspectives
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Continuum of Training Training Implementation

• Training Participation
• Providing training
• Making it available at different times
• Requiring training
• Providing incentives

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Continuum of Training Training Implementation

• State Perspectives

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Continuum of Training Evaluation

• Evaluating outcomes of training events
• Face-to-face
• Online
• Publisher delivered
• Evaluating the outcomes of the professional
  development system

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Continuum of Training Last Thoughts
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Continuum of Training Questions