Spin the SEIRTEC Professional Development Wheel

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Spin the SEIRTECProfessional Development Wheel

• for
• Successful Technology Integration

Margaret H. Bingham, SEIRTEC Director Dr.
Elizabeth Byrom, SEIRTEC Principal Investigator
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SEIRTEC

• SouthEast Initiatives Regional Technology in
  Education Consortium
• One of 10 national RTECs
• Serving the six southeastern states
• Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North
  Carolina, and South Carolina

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Professional Development Models

• Academies
• Institutes
• Core Groups
• Workshops
• Presentations
• Conference Teams
• Common Ground
• Peer-hosted Development Days

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SEIRTEC Wheel
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Start with a Vision

• Professional Development to
• Impact student achievement and overall school
  improvement
• Establish good teaching with technology

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Professional Development Map
Actions
Objectives
Goals/Outcomes

• Professional Development
• Academies
• Institutes
• Core Groups
• Workshops
• Presentations
• Other models

Teachers using technology
Improved Student Achievement
Students using technology
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Professional Development Map
Inputs
Plans
Needs Assessments
Mandates Policies
Research Best Practices
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Research Best Practices

• Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow (ACOT)
• National Educational Technology
  StandardsTeachers (NETS-T)
• Authentic Task Approach (ATA) Model for
  Professional Development
• Evaluation Data on Impact
• Lessons Learned

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Evaluation Data on Impact

• SEIRTEC Professional Development Models listed
  by greatest impact

 
High Quality
Met Needs
Timely
Important Resource
Institutes 100 100 100 100
Academies 100 97.4 97.4 96.5
Core Groups 94.7 86.2 92.9 96.3
Workshops 89 84 87.5 85.9
Presentations 89.3 78.8 83.7 79
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Lessons LearnedStrategies..Planning Into
Practice
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Lessons LearnedStrategies..Planning Into
Practice
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Lessons LearnedStrategies Lessons Learned
SEIRTEC

• Training-the-trainers means more than providing a
  workshop
• Use teachers as mentors and coaches
• Its a waste of time and energy to provide
  technology training when teachers do not have the
  resources, opportunities, and support
• Professional development is ongoing and comes in
  many sizes and shapes

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SEIRTEC Institutes
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SEIRTEC Institutes

• A 3-day event for individuals or pairs focusing
  on a theme and working on skills and location of
  resources.
• Audience teachers
• Impacts skills, use, program
• ACOT Entry, Adoption, Adaptation
• NETS-T Operations, Learning Environments,Teachin
  g/Learning/Curriculum, and Productivity/Profession
  al Practice

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SEIRTEC Academies
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SEIRTEC Academies

• 4.5 day event for teams to work on an issue and
  leave with a product or process to implement.
• Audience teachers, administrators, state
  educators
• Impacts use, program, policy
• ACOT Adaptation, Appropriation, Invention
• NETS-T Learning Environments,
  Teaching/Learning/Curriculum, Assessment/Evaluatio
  n, and Productivity/Professional Practice

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SEIRTEC Core Groups
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SEIRTEC Core Groups

• A year-long training, coaching and mentoring with
  a core team or group.
• Audience teachers
• Impacts skills, use, program
• ACOT Entry, Adoption, Adaptation
• NETS-T Operations, Learning Environments,
  Teaching/Learning/Curriculum, and
  Productivity/Professional Practice

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SEIRTEC 3-hour Workshops
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SEIRTEC 3-hour Workshops

• A 3-hour skills and information/resource
  dissemination session.
• Audience teachers, administrators
• Impacts skills, use, program
• ACOT Entry, Adoption, Adaptation
• NETS-T Operations, Teaching/Learning/Curriculum,
  Assessment/Evaluation, and Productivity/Professio
  nal Practice

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SEIRTEC 1-hour Presentations
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SEIRTEC 1-hour Presentations

• A 1-hour information and resource dissemination
  session.
• Audience teachers, administrators, state
  educators
• Impacts use, program, policy
• ACOT Entry, Adoption, Adaptation
• NETS-T Learning Environments,
  Teaching/Learning/Curriculum, and
  Assessment/Evaluation

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SEIRTEC Common Ground
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SEIRTEC Common Ground

• A 2-week online conference for individuals or
  teams focusing on a theme and on locating
  resources.
• Audience administrators, state agency teams
• Impacts skills, use, program
• ACOT Entry, Adoption, Adaptation
• NETS-T Operations, Learning Environments, and
  Productivity/Professional Practice

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SEIRTEC Conference Group
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SEIRTEC Conference Group

• A 2-3 day structured approach to conference
  session attendance by a team.
• Audience teachers, administrators
• Impacts use, program
• ACOT Entry, Adoption, Adaptation
• NETS-T Learning Environments,
  Teaching/Learning/Curriculum, Assessment/Evaluatio
  n, and Productivity/Professional Practice

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SEIRTEC Peer-hosted Development Days
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SEIRTEC Peer-hosted Development Days

• A 2-3 day event of colleagues meeting to work on
  a problem identified by the host group but
  applicable to any peer site.
• Audience state educators
• Impacts program, policy
• ACOT Entry, Adoption, Adaptation, Appropriation
• NETS-T Learning Environments,
  Assessment/Evaluation, and Productivity/Profession
  al Practice

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SEIRTEC Wheel Resources

• http//www.seirtec.org
• Planning Into Practice SEIRTEC,
  http//www.seirtec.org/P2P.html
• Factors Influencing the Effective Use of
  Technology for Teaching and LearningLessons
  Learned SEIRTEC, http//www.seirtec.org/publicat
  ions/lessons.pdf
• Teaching Learning TechnologyA Report on 10
  Years of ACOT Research Apple Computer, Inc.,
  http//www.apple.com/education/k12/leadership/acot
  /library.html
• Online Staff Development Lessons Learned ITRC
  at UCF, a SEIRTEC partner, http//www.itrc.ucf.ed
  u/LL/

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SEIRTEC Contacts

• Margaret H. Bingham, Director
• Mbingham_at_serve.org
• 919-402-1060
• Dr. Elizabeth Byrom, Principal Investigator
• Ebyrom_at_serve.org
• 919-402-1060
• www.seirtec.org and www.serve.org/technology