Title: Mississippi e-Learning for Educators:
1Mississippi e-Learning for Educators
- Reaching Teachers Across the State
2- The e-Learning for Educators Initiative is a
five-year initiative funded by a U.S. Department
of Education Ready to Teach Grant.
3E-Learning for Education Partners
- MS is one of 8 participating states in the grant.
- Alabama
- Delaware
- Kentucky
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- New Hampshire
- Pennsylvania
- West Virginia
- E-Learning for Education Partners
- Education Development Center (EDC)
- Boston College Technology and Assessment Study
Collaborative - Public Broadcasting Stations
4Components of the e-Learning for Educators
Initiative
- Delivering Online Professional Development
Courses - Meeting state and district needs
- EDC Training Local Educators to Instruct and
Develop Online Professional Development Courses - EDC Facilitator Training Course (10 weeks)
- EDC Developer Training Course (10 weeks)
- Evaluating the Effect of MS Delivery of Online
Professional Development - Pre and Post Course Surveys
- BC Conducting Research on the Effect of High
Quality Online Professional Development - Separate research courses for participating
teachers
5Office of Leadership and Professional Development
- Provide all school personnel with a strong
professional development curriculum - Professional development that will help address
state-wide teacher quality needs and impact
student achievement - Online learning can help school districts meet
the challenge of providing effective professional
development for teachers and administrators
6E-Learning for Educator Initiative
- Designed to help states meet critical
requirements for improving student achievement - Seeks to address the needs of students in
high-poverty, low-achieving schools
7Partnership Concept
8MS e-Learning Partnerships
9Educator Licensure
- Largest partnership with the MS eLearning for
Educator Initiative - Interim One-Year Alternate Route Certification
- Online Professional Development Institute (OPDI)
was created - State Board of Education has made OPDI state
policy - Committed to training 1800 teachers online
January-May 2008
10MS Teacher Center
- Recruiting and Retaining Educators for Americas
Children (REACH) Program. - E-Learning will provide on-line professional
development course offerings to first year
elementary and secondary teachers. - Incentives are contingent on completion of the
online professional development workshop.
11Innovative Support
- School Improvement Division works collaboratively
with School Support Teams to support LEAs with
schools not meeting Adequate Yearly Progress
(AYP) - 71 MS schools not meeting AYP.
- E-Learning for Educator Initiative will be
utilized to meet the professional development
mandate under NCLB for high need school districts - Research Study
12Quick Facts
- MS has trained 36 facilitators and 24 workshop
designers - 115 workshops in 2007
- 90 workshops in 2008
- 2128 participants completed 2007
- 2300 enrollments in 2008
- Average 10 workshops monthly
- Continuing Education Units (CEUs) issued-1,657
- Research Study-64 MS teachers participating
- Course Development- 9 courses(2007)
- 4 courses are currently in development
- Instructional Leadership
- Depth of Knowledge
- Fit, Healthy, and Ready to Succeed
- Special Education Inclusion
13Survey Outcomes
14Pre-Post Differences statistically significant
(p. lt .0001)
Pre-FollowUp, Post-FollowUp Differences not
statistically significant (p. .37)
No stat. sign. interaction (p. .07)
State 8 shows a different pattern (T2-T3) than
the other states, 1 stat. diff between states 1
and 8, p. .04)
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17Quick Facts
Quick Facts
- More than 50 of the teachers report improvements
in their instructional practices - 90 agree that when they used the eFE content in
class, students appeared more interested in class - 89 agree that when they use eFE content,
students had their diverse learning needs met - 84 agree that when they use eFE content,
students showed better academic performance in
content areas -
18Testimonials
19- I have really enjoyed this class. I hope that
the State Department continues to offer
opportunities like this. My lesson plan will
actually be carried out this year, as much as
possible. I want to do the full plan next year. I
changed it a little due to some exciting
developments. I actually found someone who is
going to provide us with Luna Moth eggs. I'm not
sure who is going to enjoy this more. Thanks to
everyone for all of the great input. I know that
what I have learned will have a great impact on
how I instruct my future students. I hope that
everyone's upcoming summer is very relaxing for
you! - I really enjoyed this class. I learned a lot of
new ideas on how to teach and assess different
learning styles for students. I enjoyed all of
the post and all of the responses. I especially
want to thank Ms. Patterson and MDE for
sponsoring this course. I hope we get the
opportunity to continue these workshops.
20- I have really enjoyed this online class and the
ideas and activities others have introduced. It
has made me rethink many of the activities from
the classroom and peaked my interest in finding
new ways to help my special education students.
Hope everyone enjoys the rest of the school year
and your summer. - I have enjoyed this workshop/class. It has
refreshed my memory of learning styles. I
learned them while going through school, but that
has been many years ago. I had forgotten about
some of them. I plan to use them in my teaching
now that I have been reminded of them. My
special needs students can not always learn by
using the traditional ways of teaching. I will
be using many of the ideas I have learned in this
class with my students.
21Questions
- Katrina Merriwether
- Mississippi Department of Education
- Division Director II
- kmerriwether_at_mde.k12.ms.us
- 601-359-3954