Creating Long-term Change with Technology Professional Development

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Creating Long-term Change with Technology
Professional Development

• Moving from Interesting to Replicable

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Where Are We?

• We have skills
• We have reflected on these skills
• We have created projects
• We have some comfort doing something in particular

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Whats Next?

• If I Won the Lottery...
• How replicable is my work by someone other than
  me?
• Why or why not?

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Understanding the Context

• Why doesnt everyone just do this?
• It is, and isnt, about things you already know
• What you know
• Time
• Money/Resources
• Others?

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• What else?
• Its about change
• Where are people in the continuum of concerns?

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CBAM

• Concerns Based Adoption Model
• Rogers, 1971
• Foundation for much of the research on how
  teachers adopt educational innovations/interventio
  ns
• Levels of Concern
• Adopter Types

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Levels of Concern

• Awareness -- I am not concerned
• Informational -- I want to know more
• Personal -- How will this affect me?
• Management -- One more thing!??
• Consequence -- How is this impacting kids?
• Collaboration -- How does this relate to other
  staff?
• Refocusing -- I know how to make this better...

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Adopter Types
Rogers, 1971
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ACOT Model
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Bringing It All Together

• You are where you are because of who you are
• Others in your school will not respond to exactly
  the same stimuli and incentives that you have
• Considering where others are now, what can you do
  to move them along?

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What We Know

• Understand social networks
• Talk, Talk, Talk
• People respond to the network...
• but maybe not to you directly!
• Utilize strategies that build confidence and
  comfort
• Mentoring
• Modeling
• Close support

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• Combine support and pressure
• Support peer and bottom-up
• Pressure top down administrative requirements
• You cannot succeed with a totally bottom-up
  approach
• You need administrative support
• How can you garner this support?
• Who influences the administrators?
• They have concerns and adopter types as well!

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Reasonable Expectations

• You will not have 100 adoption
• Remember the 17 resister population
• Most people move through all levels of concern
• This takes time
• 3 -5 years on the average

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• But You Need a Plan!

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So, Whats the Plan?

• Creating an action plan for technology
  professional development
• Do you have a plan for replicating and expanding
  what youve done this year?

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References

• Apple Computer Corporation. Changing the
  Conversation about Teaching, Learning
  Technology -- A Report on 10 Years of ACOT
  Research. 1996
• Hord, S.M., W. Rutherford, H. Austin-Huling, and
  G. Hall. 1987. Taking Charge of Change.
  Alexandria, VA Association for Supervision and
  Curriculum Development
• Rogers, E. 1993. The Diffusion of Innovations.
  Second edition. New York Free Press