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Professional Development Plan - SY 2006-2007
Edmondson-Westside High School #400 |
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| August Wed - 23 Thur - 24 Fri - 2 |
• School mission, vision, and priority goals • 2006 test data review and analysis • Expectations for action plan strategies and activities |
• All Staff | • Knowledge of roles and responsibilities and support for implementing the school improvement plan | Facilitator: Principal Monitor: School Improvement Team and Instructional Leadership Team |
• Staff will begin to implement specific strategies and activities designated in the school improvement action plan |
| Ongoing | • Interdepartmental and multi-content instruction • Classroom, HSA, and MSA assessment data trends • Research-based teaching and technology practices • TaskBuilderOnline and eLearningTeacher PD tools |
• Instructional Leadership Team • All teachers • All instructional support staff |
• Skills for analyzing data to develop standards-based lessons • One start-up standards-based lesson plan ready for classroom teaching |
Facilitator: LearningFront Monitor: Instructional Leadership Team and Professional Development Team |
• Teachers teach, score, and analyze the results of the first standards-based lesson • Teachers interact online with coaches and post lesson on school web site |
| September Fri - 29 |
• Aligning content standards, data trends, and teaching with interdepartmental and multi-content instruction • Classroom management strategies |
• All teachers • All instructional support staff |
• Skills to perform instructional alignment • Skills for managing students and classrooms • One standards-based lesson plan ready for classroom teaching |
Facilitator: LearningFront Monitor: Instructional Leadership Team and Professional Development Team |
• Teachers teach, score, and analyze the results of the second standards-based lesson plan • Teachers interact online with coaches and post lessons on school web site |
| October Thur - 19 Fri - 20 |
• Tools for scoring student performance • BCPSS Benchmark 1 results • Attendance at State Teachers Conference (Option) |
• All teachers • All instructional support staff |
• Skills to use rubrics and selected and constructed response items • One standards-based lesson plan ready for classroom teaching |
Facilitator: LearningFront Monitor: Instructional Leadership Team and Professional Development Team |
• Teachers teach, score, and analyze the results of the third standards-based lesson plan • Teachers interact online with coaches and post lessons on school web site |
| February Thur - 1 Fri - 2 |
• Combining teaching and technology • New trends in technology to engage students in learning, e.g., podcasting, RSS feeds, online mentoring |
• All teachers • All instructional support staff |
• Skills to integrate technology into a standards-based lesson plan • One standards-based lesson plan ready for classroom teaching |
Facilitator: LearningFront and Technology Liaison Monitor: Instructional Leadership Team and Professional Development Team |
• Teachers teach, score, and analyze, the results of the fourth standards-based lesson plan • Teachers interact online with coaches and post lessons on school web site |
| March Fri - 2 |
• Differentiating instruction for the final quarter of the school year • BCPSS Benchmark 2 results |
• All teachers • All instructional support staff |
• One standards-based lesson plan ready for classroom teaching | Facilitator: LearningFront Monitor: Instructional Leadership Team and Professional Development Team |
• Teachers teach, score, and analyze, the results of the fifth standards-based lesson plan • Teachers interact online with coaches and post lessons on school web site |
| May Fri - 18 |
• School prototype standards-based lessons and results | • All teachers • All instructional support staff |
• Each teacher demonstrates best lessons from the school year • All teachers gain new insights from sharing sessions |
Facilitator: LearningFront Monitor: Instructional Leadership Team and Professional Development Team |
• Teachers organize best lessons as prototypes for improvement • Teachers access prototype lessons on the web to plan for next year |
| Note: Our professional development plan is aligned with the professional development days in the BCPSS Calendar for the 2006-2007 school year. Moreover, the use of TaskBuilderOnline and eLearningTeacher supports sustained and on-going professional development with face-to-face and online coaching. | |||||