Professional Development Blue Ridge East

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Professional DevelopmentBlue Ridge East
TTIStrand for AdministratorsApril 8, 2005

• Leadership, Technology and the Need for Change
• Robert C. McCracken, Ed. D.

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Agenda/Topics to Be Covered

• Part I of the Presentation
• Personal Change
• Professional Change
• Technology Change
• Educational Change
• Leadership Change
• Part II
• Develop A Rubric for Evaluating Technology
  Integration
• Assignment of Groups and Roles
• Presentation of Case Study

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Agenda/Topics to Be Covered

• Part III
• Group Interaction and Discussion
• Debriefing of the Case Study
• Part IV
• Review and Discussion of Rubric as it Pertains to
  the Demonstrated Lesson
• Asynchronous Learning
• Keeping Current with Technology
• Future Implementation of Todays Ideas
• Positive Accomplishments

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Personal Change

• Remember the 60s
• Has Change Occurred?

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Personal Change

• How About the 70s
• Has Change Occurred?

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Personal Change

• What about the 80s
• Has Change Occurred?

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Personal Change

• And the 90s
• Has Change Occurred?

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Personal Change

• ..and finally in the
• New Century
• Has Change Occurred?

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Professional Change

• Kindergarten Teacher Assistant
• 1st Grade Teacher
• Intermediate Grade Teacher
• Central Office Administrator
• School Board Member
• Elementary Principal
• Secondary Principal
• Administrative Assistant
• Superintendent
• Assistant Professor at Radford University
• Has Change Occurred?

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Technology Change

• What Technology Were You Using in 1960?
• What Technology Were You Using in 1970?
• What Technology Were You Using in 1980?
• What Technology Were You Using in 1990?
• What Technology Were You Using in 2000?
• What Technology Did You Use Today?
• This PowerPoint and My Entire Class for
  Technology is on My Watch. Has Change Occurred?

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Technology Change

• What Technology Careers Were Available When You
  Were a Sophomore in High School?
• What Were Your Career Options When You Completed
  Undergraduate School?
• What Technology Careers Were Available in 2000?
• What Technology Careers Are Available Today?
• What Technology Careers Will Be Available in 2010?

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Educational Change

• Safety Education
• Progress has been made in Safety Education on all
  grade levels. Emphasis has been laid on
  recognizing hazards, safe living practices and
  the development of proper attitudes.
• State Supts Annual Report of 1938-39
• Has Changed Occurred?

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Educational Change

• School Operates on a 9/10 month schedule
• Schools Are Organized in K 12 arrangement
• Elementary Teachers Teach All Subjects
• Students All Report to a School Within Their
  Neighborhood or Attendance Area, Mandatory
  Attendance is Required
• Has Change Occurred?

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Educational Change

• Women Become Elementary Teachers/Principals
• Coaches Become High School Principals
• High School Principals Become Superintendents
• Has Change Occurred?

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Leadership Change

• Do Schools Face the Same Challenges as They Did
  20 Years Ago?
• Do School Administrators Face the Same Challenges
  as They Did 20 Years Ago?
• Do Industry Leaders Face the Same Challenges as
  They Did 20 Years Ago? 20 Months Ago? 20 Weeks
  Ago?
• Can Training Remain the Same?

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Leadership Change

• Can A Leader Delegate Technology Duties to
  Subordinates?
• Can A Leader Leave Employees Out of the Loop When
  Developing New Policies and Market Strategies?
• Can Employees Continue to do the Same Job They
  Did 20 Years Ago?

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Leadership Change

• Can You Be An Effective Leader and an Effective
  Manager and Not Change?
• Can You Manage Change AND Change at the Same Time?

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Part II of the Presentation

• Develop A Rubric for Evaluating Technology
  Integration
• Assignment of Groups and Roles
• Presentation of Case Study

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Developing a Rubric

• How Do You Define Technology Integration?
• What are Your Expectations for Technology
  Integration?
• Remember a Rubric is to Eliminate Subjectivity
• Do You Observe IT or Not
• Select at Least Five Look Fors That Will
  Become the Rubric.

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Assignment of Groups

• Establish Five Groups, mix the group so there is
  diversity of relationships
• The Groups will be used to develop a rubric and
  to discuss / respond to the Case Study
• Determine Roles Within the Group, ie reporter,
  facilitator, role player (if preferred), etc
• Discuss the Issues and Form Responses

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Case Study Exercise

• You have a teacher (groups decide level and / or
  subject area) who has been a marginal teacher
  during your tenure as principal. The teacher has
  received continuing contract and teaches in an
  area where teachers are very difficult to locate
  and hire. All past evaluations have been
  completed as acceptable, but everyone knows
  the teacher is marginal at best. The
  Superintendent has challenged you to evaluate
  this teacher fairly and consistently, but get to
  the bottom of the on-going complaints. The School
  Board Chairmans daughter will be in this
  teachers class next year.

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Case Study Exercise

• One of the biggest complaints you receive from
  parents and students is that the teacher plays
  on the computer much of the time. However every
  time you perform a classroom visit, she is
  lecturing to the class or is transitioning to a
  lecture. You have asked your technology
  specialist to track her internet use and really
  dont come up with anything useful. You discuss
  the issue with the teacher and the teacher
  assures you all computer work is related to
  instructional work. Like the teachers
  performance, lesson planning is marginal and very
  global ie. SOL 4.2 Illustrate via the Web.

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Case Study Exercise

• Describe the process you will use to investigate
  these continuing complaints about her computer
  playing and talk about what expectations you
  will establish to assure computer use is
  consistent with your expectations for
  instruction.

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Part III of the Presentation

• Group Interaction and Discussion
• Debriefing of the Case Study

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Debriefing the Case Study

• Group Presentations
• Similarities
• Differences
• Could This Case Be Real?
• Questions About the Case

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Part IV of the Presentation

• Review and Discussion of the Rubric as it
  Pertains to the Demonstrated Lesson
• Technology Constant Training and How to Keep
  Current
• Implementation Possibilities and Positive
  Accomplishments

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Review / Discussion of Rubric

• Were Your Look Fors Realistic?
• Can They Become the Basis for a Rubric?
• What Things Did You See in the Demonstration
  Lesson That You Expected?
• What Things Did You See in the Demonstration
  Lesson That You Did NOT Expect

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Asynchronous Learning

• What is It?
• Learning That Takes Place at Anytime 24/7
• What Does It Mean?
• Lessons, learning, modules are posted on a
  regular schedule and the student chooses when to
  participate, given some specific guidelines.
• Who is Doing It
• Phoenix On-Line
• American Intercontinental University
• Walden University
• Think These are Mail Order Degrees?
• Think Again
• Check Out On-line Courses

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Asynchronous Learning

• Why Should You Care?
• Think About the Implications
• Think About the Rise in Home Schooling
• Think About NCLB Supplemental Services
• Think About Alternative Schools
• Think About Charter Schools
• Think About Part I (Change) of the Presentation

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Asynchronous Learning

• What Does It Have to Do With NCLB?
• What are you beliefs about NCLB
• Are Alternative Schools, Charter Schools and Home
  Schooling Going to See an Increase in Student
  Enrollment Over the Next Ten Years?
• What Will Your Student Population Look Like in
  Ten Years?

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Asynchronous Learning

• Examples
• WebCT
• Blackboard
• Angel
• Demonstration of WebCT
• Supporting Software for Asynchronous Learning
• Macromedia Breeze

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Technology Constant Training and How to Keep
Current

• How Do You Keep Current?
• Remember Word Perfect, Microsoft Works, Lotus,
  etc?
• How Do You Keep Your Faculty / Staff Current?
• Updated and New Software
• New Versions of the same stuff
• Simple stuff gets complicated, can you think of
  any?
• Web-based Applications
• Professional Organizations
• Modeling of the Expectations!

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Positive Accomplishments and Future
Implementation Ideas

• What Did You Learn and/or Observe that Might Help
  with a Technology Integration Issue in Your
  School
• Provide at Least one Positive Professional
  Accomplishment with the Group Related to Your Use
  of Technology.

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THANK YOU

• QUESTIONS?
• Feel free to e-mail me at rmccracke_at_radford.edu
• Visit my Webpage www.radford.edu/rmccracke if
  you would like to review or have a copy of the
  presentation.
• Thank you for being here this afternoon. I hope
  the time you spent here was worthwhile.