Kristen's PD Module - Final Draft

Thank you all for your feedback.  My final draft  is the 2nd attachment "Professional Development Plan 2."

Kristen,

What a great model.  It is well thought out and a huge undertaking.  The administrative piece looks like it will give you a great deal of data.  I think the teachers will learn a lot from this.

Great work!! And, a hugh undertaking. I hope some of the
other tech people will take some of the responsibility. Excellent organization
from concept through delivery and evaluation. Some questions and thoughts: Who
will decide (or how will you decide) if the TechFest projects are “worthy?” Are
the tech leaders committed and able to help the teachers with the design and
the on-going support for the PLC’s? What are you going to do about skill levels
in the groups? With a program like iMovie there might be various levels. The
beginners would need quite a bit of support to make it successful. I was
thinking that after the teachers finish their projects that it might be nice
for every teacher to share their projects within the school and then those that
were comfortable could chose to share at the next TechFest.

I really like the idea of a yearly tech goal. I don’t think
it would fly at one of my schools. It seems like a good way to get teachers to
concentrate on moving forward one step at a time. Ava

Kristen--

As always, an excellent job! This plan is incredibly
well thought out. You've clearly cited relevant research, and you have
an extensive evaluation plan.

Sue

Nice job!  This document is thorough, easy to understand and well written.

Clarena Renfrow Information Technology Teacher Clarena M. Renfrow IT Teacher Poultney High School 154 E. Main Street Poultney, VT 05764 802-287-5861 x-218

As I guessed yours is very complete. I thought you covered all of the bases, and it was written well.

One thing that struck me was all of the people in the SU with Technology in their title. I got the feeling from other messages that you are it, for Technology at your school. Your idea of having a tech fair is great; I would also encourage you to get the other "Tech people" to visit your school throughout the year. When teachers hear or get help from a variety of people it goes a long way in normalizing it for them.

We have 6 tech people for the five schools in our SU. We are not many, but out of desperation, we have banded together and created a unified agenda that has really helped to give us some weight when communicating our needs to our superintendent and SU board.

I know it has been helpful for us, and thought it might be worth a try for you guys.