Key Features of Effective Staff Development that Promotes Student Progress

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Voyage of Discovery

• Key Features of Effective Staff Development that
  Promotes Student Progress
• Presented by SEDL SUPERNet Consortium

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Changing Role of the Teacher

• MANAGER
• MENTOR
• MODEL
• MOTIVATOR

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Changing Role of the Student through Technology
Integration

• Knowledgeable Researcher
• Life-Long Learner Explorer
• Effective Communicator
• Competent Creative Thinker
• Quality Producer
• Collaborator / Manager
• Skilled Technician
• Responsible Citizen

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Changing Role of Staff Development

• Just-in-Time / On-Demand
• "Content" Appropriate
• "Process" Appropriate
• "Context" Appropriate
• "Learner-Centered / Subject Integrated
• Job-Embedded / Real-Time
• Mentor / Coach Nurtured
• "Self Evaluated / Self Valued

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Role of Technology in the ClassroomTo Promote

• A Collaborative Learning Environment.
• A Character-building Environment
• Project-based, Research-based Curriculum
• Authentic Assessment
• Multiple-Intelligence's
• 5 Levels of Mastery

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Engaged Learner Model
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Learning Approaches

• BIRD HOUSE Approach
• SKILLS-BUILDING Approach
• Eclectic Approach
• Innovator
• Primary Adoptor
• Wanna Be / Intender
• Laggard / Some Day --Need to
• Change Resister / Dont See the Need
• Rock

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Districts Role -True Integration

• Begins with Values, Beliefs, Planning, Policies,
  and Procedures
• Asks, What are student needs?
• Asks, What are teacher needs?
• Promotes a problem-solving mentality -- How do
  we make it happen?
• Expects on-going responsibility from parents to
  administrators

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True Integration

• Utilizes a school-wide coherent strategic plan
• Dedicates 3 - 5 years span for significant reform
• Changes on-the-job behaviors
• Spreads Accountability throughout the system
• Affects student Learning

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The DONTs of Technology Integration -- Societies
Role

• There are many wonderful learning environments
  that technology tools can assist us in
  generating.....There are also some things
  technology can magnify which are not desirable.
• Lee Steinberg, Troy Aikman's agent, has been
  quoted in the Dallas Morning News this past year
  as having stated...

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• "I am increasingly disturbed by what I see in
  young people today.... specifically because of
  their
• incessant demands for instant gratification
• appalling lack of impulse control
• pervasive coarseness characterized by MTV-driven
  life styles
• short attention spans
• need to be super-charged by high sensory
  stimulation addictions
• self-absorption which makes it impossible for so
  many in this generation to contemplate in
  silence

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• inability to place themselves into another
  person's realities
• lack of patience to live with the natural
  ebb-and-flow processes in life.

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• DON'T use
• Technologies designed for the very BASIC mastery
  levels which are "super-charged" REFLEX-based
  rather than REFLECTION-based.
• Stick a computer screen in each child's face for
  one-on-one computer time that isolates students
  with meaningless reflex-based tasks.

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• DO move your students TOWARD more
• REFLECTION-based, project-based, collaborative
  use of technology. Place several students at one
  computer to negotiate, collaborate, communicate,
  and deliberate creatively through the following
  research-based process
• Research, Collect, Verify Information
• Organize, Eliminate, Prioritize Information
• Categorize and Summarize major issues
• Delineate Develop a Reporting Agenda
• Collaborate Negotiate through a Presentation
  Process
• Design Deliver Meaningful Information
• Explain Defend.

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What is it you want your students to be able to
do?