The following are a needs assessment tool and its scoring guide plus a timely article on twenty-first century education and professional development:
21st Century Schools. Professional development needs assessment. Austin, TX: 21st Century Schools.
http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Professional_Development_Needs_Assessment.pdf
The scoring guide for this needs assessment is available here: http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Scoring_Guide.pdf
21st Century Schools. What is 21st century education? Austin, TX: 21st Century Schools.
http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/What_is_21st_Century_Education.htm
Media:
The following are websites that you must view for this lesson. You will find that they contain information and resources that will be useful to you in the next lesson also.
21st Century Schools Professional Staff Development
http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Professional_Development.htm
21st Century Schools. (Producer). (n.d.). Assessing professional learning needs. [Webinar].
http://www.learningforward.org/learning-opportunities/webinars/assessing-learning-needs
ACTIVITIES / ASSESSMENTS
1. After doing the required reading and after thinking carefully about the professional needs in your setting, prepare a professional development needs assessment plan (see below for suggested resources). Your plan should incorporate the following elements:
• Select one grade level or subject area.
• Be sure that your needs assessment plan includes formal and informal data (surveys, interviews, emails, etc.) and test data. Your plan should not be just the needs assessment alone.
• Conduct the needs assessment survey in your own setting using the chart on page 7 of the required text by Speck and Knipe to guide your analysis of the results. Your analysis should focus on Speck and Knipe’s questions: “Where Are We?” and “Where Do We Want to Be?” Then analyze the results.
• Choose one need in your setting that is related to student achievement. You must identify that one need and set one specific, measurable goal that your professional development plan will address.
2. Write a 5-page paper in which you discuss and analyze your needs assessment findings and explain your choice of one need, the model that you have decided to use for your professional development plan, and the strategies that you have decided to use in that plan.
The following website will be extremely helpful as you design your plan. This site and the others below are intended to offer you examples and to give you some ideas for your own plan.
http://www.dpi.state.nd.us/grants/needs.pdf
The following sample needs assessment surveys may prove useful as well:
http://prodev.dadeschools.net/Surveys/SurveyPD.htm
http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id=3513
https://sites.google.com/site/erusdbtsaprogram/newsfeed/participatingteacherspdneedsassessmentsurveyonline
NOTE: The following websites link to a needs assessment tool, its scoring guide, plus a timely article on twenty-first century education and professional development. You will find them useful in your needs assessment assignment.
21st Century Schools. Professional development needs assessment. Austin, TX: 21st Century Schools.
http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Professional_Development_Needs_Assessment.pdf
The scoring guide for this needs assessment is available here: http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Scoring_Guide.pdf
21st Century Schools. What is 21st century education? Austin, TX: 21st Century Schools.
http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/What_is_21st_Century_Education.htm
Lesson 8
READINGS
Reeves Text: Chapters 7-12, Appendices A and B
Speck & Snipe Text: Chapters 3 and 4
National School Board Association. (n.d). Planning professional development.
http://www.nsba.org/sbot/toolkit/PlanningPD.html
National School Board Association. (n.d.). Professional development.
http://www.nsba.org/sbot/toolkit/ProfDev.html
Wallace, M., et al. (n.d.). Smooth science. ASCD Express 2(208).
http://www.ascd.org/ascd-express/vol2/208-wallace.aspx
Media:
The following website has a number of excellent webinars that you might want to view:
http://www.learningforward.org/learning-opportunities/webinars/components-of-a-comprehensive-plan
This is the one webinar that you must view for this lesson:
Learning Forward (Producer). (October 27, 2010). Components of a comprehensive professional development plan. [Webinar].
http://www.learningforward.org/learning-opportunities/webinars/components-of-a-comprehensive-plan [Homepage]
http://www.icohere-meeting.net/WebConference/RecordingDefault.aspx?c_psrid=E053D88689 [Webinar]
ACTIVITIES / ASSESSMENTS
1. Using your one goal, your professional development model, and the strategies that you have selected to meet that goal, design a 3-year staff development plan for your school district or department or grade level that addresses that one need. Be sure to take into account student achievement data, changes in staff, new teachers hired, veteran teachers retiring, etc. Include the possible implications for payment of trainers, payment of teachers during out-of-contract time, new instructional materials, etc. Beware of being too ambitious here. Limit your planned professional development to one specific, achievable goal even though it might be one out of many related goals.
2. Write a 2 page paper in which you explain the identified need, the professional development model you have chosen, and the activities you have selected to deliver your professional development experience.
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