Protocol System

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Protocol System

• How will it affect teachers?

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History

• 1997 State wide findings by Bruce Joyce and
  recommendations
• 1998 Required IPDPs, Connected Professional
  Development to Individual Teachers Student Data,
  Called for a Professional Development Evaluation
  System
• 2000 Implementation Study by ESDI
• 2001-2002 Development and Pilot
• 2002-2003 Five Districts Reviewed
• 2003-2004 Twelve Districts Up For Review

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Purpose

• Ensure high quality district, school, and
  faculty professional development

• Provide data for annual report on the quality of
  professional development

• Provide school districts with methods to conduct
  ongoing assessments

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Areas for Improvement (from Protocol findings)

• Transfer into classroom
• Student changes
• Action Research
• Use of Results

• Web-based resources
• Trainers
• Implementing the system
• Evaluation Methods

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Moving Leon County Forward

• The following are already in place
• School improvement planning with staff
  development planning tool
• Teacher IPDPs
• Workshops for principals, TEC reps, district
  staff
• Title II Mini Grants
• TEC forms aligned with requirements

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The 4 Protocol Areas

• Planning

• Delivery

• Follow Up

• Evaluation

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If YOU Were Being Interviewed, What would you
say?

• Planning
• Tell me how your IPDP was created?
• What data were used in creating your IPDP?
• What process is used to review your IPDP?
• What factors do you consider in determining which
  professional development activities in which to
  be involved?
• To what extent are the professional development
  offerings for this school directly related to
  teaching?

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And what would you say about

• Delivery
• Describe the professional development you
  received on _________ of your IPDP?
• How well did the training objectives reflect the
  objectives listed in the IPDP?
• Generally, to what extent is the content you
  receive through professional development?
• To what extent did the instructor model the
  skills that were to be used?
• To what extent did your instructor teach the
  class using the same techniques and strategies
  you are to be using with students?

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And how about follow up?

• Describe for me how you have used in your
  classroom what you learned in the professional
  development. How many times? How many students?
• Did the instructor or coach or mentor come to
  your classroom to help you implement the new
  strategies?
• How long did the mentoring or coaching last?
• Have you been offered follow-up assistance after
  professional development through the web?
• Did you feel you had mastered the new
  skills/training before the coaching/mentoring
  stopped?

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And finallyEvaluation

• On what basis was the success of your IPDP
  evaluated?
• Describe the meeting held with your principal to
  determine how much of what was written on your
  IPDP has been implemented.
• How does this school document that you have used
  the new skills or knowledge in the classroom?
• What changes have occurred in student performance
  that resulted from the professional development
  you received?
• What evaluation methods were used to document
  changes in student performance resulting from the
  professional development?

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Last Couple of Notes (from me)

• What we can do now
• Choose professional development carefully. This
  means sticking to your IPDP areas AND reading the
  description of the workshop to make sure it will
  help you improve scores in those areas.
• Fill out the green sheet carefully. (This will
  also help you on your salmon colored sheet)
• If you attend a workshop with someone else from
  our school, share ideas and encourage each other
  to try using skills, etc. that were taught in the
  workshop.
• Only fill out front page and part of the back of
  the salmon colored sheet at first. Then go back
  after implementation and finish filling out
  BEFORE sending in to TEC office.

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