EDLD 5333 - Week 4 Part 2 Assignment

Part 2: Professional Development Agenda (ELCC 2.4 a,b,c)

Professional growth is an integral part of a Campus Improvement Plan. In professional learning communities, staff members understand that continuously honing their skills is necessary for ongoing school improvement.

In Part 2 of this week’s Application, you will develop an agenda for a professional development day that addresses the targeted campus need and include a timeline for follow-up professional development.

 

Professional Development Agenda

Action Plan Goal (same as in action plan): By 2018 the Hispanic students at FHS will achieve 75% at Phase-in 1 Level II or above on EOC Writing tests.
Action Plan Objective (same as in action plan): The Hispanic students at FHS will achieve 55% at Phase-in 1 Level II or above on the 2014-2015 EOC Writing tests.
Topic of professional development: Building 21st Century Writers
Subtopics (if applicable): The Three Key Literacies for 21st Century Learning
Grade Level: 9th-12th	Facilitator: Heidi Hayes Jacobs, President of Curriculum Designers, executive director of National Curriculum Mapping Institute and Academy, and author of “Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World”	Location: Region XVI Service Center, Amarillo, TX Having a region-wide training would allow the pooling of resources that would allow schools to synergize and use multiple resource banks to bring in a national level education leader.	Start Time: 8:00 a.m.	End-Time: 3:30 p.m.
Strategy/ Activity	Purpose	Description	Steps	Estimated Time
8:00 AM – Keynote Address: “Why writing is the higher-order area of the curriculum!”	Teacher instruction and inspiration	Talk on why students that perform highly on writing do better on subjects across the board.	Writing is a testing area and can be fundamentally tracked each year.	45 min./15 min. break
9:00 AM – Instructional Presentation: “Writing: Critical Thinking Throughout The Curriculum”	Teacher instruction	Talk focusing on incorporating writing into any subject area.	How to teach science writing, math writing, social studies writing, etc.	45 min./15 min. break
10:00 AM – Presentation with Q&A: “Challenges for ELL Teachers”	Teacher instruction, peer sharing, extension/elaboration, critique and reflection opportunities	Talk focusing on ELL technological skills implementation.	Every teacher in the Texas Panhandle is teaching ELL students. It is imperative that every teacher understand best practice concepts in implementation of skills.	45 min./15 min. break
11:00 AM – Teachers broken into groups	Small groups will work through next steps of training.	Teachers will be pre-assigned to groups based off of registrations.	Same subject teachers will be paired with teachers from other schools in attendance at training.	10 min.
11:10 AM – Small Group Ice Breaker game	Build camaraderie and teamwork amongst team members.	“3 facts, 1 lie” Teachers will each write 3 facts and 1 lie about themselves on an index card.	After writing on the cards, teachers will share their responses and team members will try to guess what the lie is.	15 min.
11:25 AM – Small Group ELL writing lesson plan utilizing technology	Sharing of ideas by colleagues to create a week-long reading unit plan for ELL students that implements technology usage.	Teachers will utilize best practices from experience to find synergy in lesson plan creation.	Philosophy agreement (PDSA, Concept Based, Large/Small Group work, Graphic Organizers, Simulations, Peer Assessment, etc.)	35 min.
Noon – Lunch	Lunch would be on “your own” unless a sponsor could be found that would serve the area teachers, which is likely something that wouldn’t be too hard to find as it would be a great P.R. move, and of course the TV and Radio folks would be tipped off about it so they would cover the event as it highlights education and the kids of their viewers/listeners.			1 hour
1:00 PM – Video Clip	Inspire teachers	Clip from Columbia Pictures 1998 motion picture “Les Miserables” showing Jean Valjean meeting, eating with, and staying the night with Bishop Myriel. Valjean steals silver and is arrested by police. When he is arrested the Bishop tells the police that the silver was a gift. Then he turns to Valjean and tells him that he is to become a new man.	Set-up Video Explanation leading to small group work	10 min.
1:10 PM – Small Group discussion and idea sharing centered on student writing initiatives that focus on use of technology.	Program and best-practice sharing.	Allows teachers to discuss concepts that they use in classes and strengthen their personal knowledge database through peer sharing and teaching.	Guide questions: ·  What’s the best technique you currently use? ·  How can I …? ·  What is one strategy you’ve always wanted to implement but didn’t have the knowledge or resources to do so?	45 min./15 min. break
2:10 PM – Small Group Collaboration.	Small groups would be combined into “Super Groups” to share cross-curricular ideas about what they learned and created during their individual sessions.	At the end of this time period the groups would document their best ideas on a common source (whiteboard, large post-it board, on the wall using an Elmo, etc.) so that all members could write them down (service center employees would be group monitors and one of their jobs for the day would be documentation of all ideas and the subsequent sending of all collated data to teachers that attended).	·  Sharing of ideas ·  Explanation of necessary information when questions arise ·  Pair/Share (turn to your neighbor and discuss how each strategy could be used for 1 min, etc.)	35 min./5 min. stretch break
2:50 PM – Closing Talk: “The Three Key Literacies for 21st Century Curriculum”	Teacher instruction and inspiration	Jacobs’ “Three Key Literacies” are ·   Digital Literacy ·   Media Literacy ·   Global Literacy	Digital Literacy      *Students must be able to access digital tools, and the knowledge necessary to select the best digital tool for the task at hand. Media Literacy      * Students must develop critical and creative capabilities to both receive and assess the quality of messages from all forms of media, and to generate and create quality media of their own. Global Literacy      * Students should use digital tools to access a global network of peers and to develop a sense of place and people. Curriculum should provide context and background to further students' understanding of global economies and current events.	40 min.

(Jacobs, H.H. (2010) Curriculum 21: Essential education for a changing world. Alexandria, VA. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.)