Developing Teacher Leaders

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Developing Teacher Leaders

• By
• Manley Midgett
• North Carolina Teacher Academy
• 909 Aviation Parkway, Suite 700
• Morrisville, NC 27560
• manley.midgett_at_teacheracademy.org

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Developing Teacher Leaders

• Cover

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North Carolina Teacher Academy

• Started in 1994
• Funded by the General Assembly
• Connected to Department of Education
• Offer 35 different modules
• Served 78 of schools (1,783)
• Served over 45,000 teachers in extensive
  professional development experiences
• Provided 300 literacy coaches

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The North Carolina Teacher Academy Professional
Development Standards are aligned with the
National Staff Development Councils Standards
for Staff Development and are designed to assist
schools in outlining school improvement goals.
All professional Development is results-driven,
standards-based, and job-embedded.
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Why Develop Teacher Leaders?

• Doing what weve always done,

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Why Develop Teacher Leaders?

• Still gets us what weve always gotten!

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Why Develop Teacher Leaders?

• We dont like what weve always gotten!

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Why Develop Teacher Leaders?

• We can try to change everybody at once

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Why Develop Teacher Leaders?

• or, we can start with some key leaders!

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Why Develop Teacher Leaders?

• We are not trying to get teachers to leave the
  classroom.

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Change on three fronts
Objectives
THE SCIENCE CURRICU
LUM Evaluation Instruction

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Change on three fronts

• The written curriculum (Standards)
• The taught curriculum
• The tested curriculum

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1. The Written Curriculum

• Converting standards
• to
• classroom objectives

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2. The Taught Curriculum

• What we do day-to-day in the classroom

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3. The Tested Curriculum

• Are they getting it?

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1. Standards

• It is worth it to spend time converting state
  standards into objectives that include student
  behaviors and science process skills matched with
  content.
• (Typically, there is a tendency to jump directly
  on the content.)

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2. Old Instructional Model

• The 2E Model
• Explain-Evaluate

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One Major Change

• Implement the 5E Model
• Even our best teachers still wanted to explain
  before exploring.
• We matched activities to the classroom
  objectives and used the expected skills and
  content.

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3. Evaluation

• Typically, we expect the students to tell us back
  that which we have been saying.
• They like this deal!
• They dont need to think, just repeat after us.

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3. Evaluation

• What do we get?
• A false sense
• of security

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Question?

• Are we really evaluating for understand?

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Solution

• So, we matched the evaluation to the classroom
  objectives, which were also matched by the 5E
  activities.

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Developing Teacher Leaders
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Getting Started

• Selected
• a focus
• a level

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Getting Started

• Sent out applications
• Got over 300 back
• Selected 35-40 teachers
• Who did we select?

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Provide three things

• 1. Deeper understanding of science
• 2. Learn how to improve objectives, lesson
  cycles, and evaluation for understanding
• 3. How to become a provider of
• professional development
• Bonus Camaraderie

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1. Deeper understanding of science

• 6 days of in-depth training with a national
  expert in the field

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2. The Science Curriculum(Written-Taught-Tested)

• Tasks to try in classroom, share with each other,
  discuss, revise and receive feedback (met for
  extend times)
• Wrote objectives
• Wrote tried 5E cycles
• Wrote evaluations discussed them

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Communications

• Tried activities over time
• Got feedback from me and
• Got feedback from team leaders
• Emailed and phoned feedback
• Worked as Grade Level Teams
• Met regularly to share

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3. Professional Developers

• Modeled professional development
• Chances to practice
• Coaching
• 2 days of planning for a summer academy
• Worked in grade-level teams

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3. Professional Developers

• Week-long academy by grade level
• Worked in pairs
• Got daily and end-of-week feedback by peers and
  me
• Got feedback from participants

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3. Professional Developers

• 2-day follow-up provided help with all things
  related to their professional development
• On-line follow-up with participants provided
  feedback for PD as well as the lesson cycles

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Its Not Over!

• Seems like a lot to do for a one-week academy?
• They can now provide PD for their school and
  district and we support PD by them for other LEAs
  and future summers.
• Some are in their 15th year of doing this.

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• Elementary Earth Science

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Questions?