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Developing Teacher Leaders
By
Manley Midgett
North Carolina Teacher Academy
909 Aviation Parkway, Suite 700
Morrisville, NC 27560
Developing Teacher Leaders
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North Carolina Teacher Academy
• Started in 1994• Funded by the General Assembly• Connected to Department of Education• Offer 35 different modules• Served 78% of schools (1,783)• Served over 45,000 teachers in extensive
professional development experiences• Provided 300 literacy coaches
The North Carolina Teacher Academy Professional Development Standards are aligned with the National Staff Development Council’s Standards for Staff Development and are designed to assist schools in outlining school improvement goals. All professional Development is results-driven, standards-based, and job-embedded.
Why Develop Teacher Leaders?
• Doing what we’ve always done,
Why Develop Teacher Leaders?
• Still gets us what we’ve always gotten!
Why Develop Teacher Leaders?
• We don’t like what we’ve always gotten!
Why Develop Teacher Leaders?
• We can try to change everybody at once
Why Develop Teacher Leaders?
or, we can start with some key leaders!
Why Develop Teacher Leaders?
We are not trying to get teachers to leave the classroom.
Change on “three fronts”
Objectives
THE
SCIENCECURRICULUM
Evaluation Instruction
Change on “three fronts”
• The written curriculum (Standards)
• The taught curriculum
• The tested curriculum
1. The Written Curriculum
Converting standards
to
classroom objectives
2. The Taught Curriculum
• What we do day-to-day in the classroom
3. The Tested Curriculum
• Are they getting it?
1. Standards
“It is worth it to spend time converting state standards into objectives that include student behaviors and science process skills matched with content.”
(Typically, there is a tendency to jump directly on the content.)
2. Old Instructional Model
The 2E Model
Explain-Evaluate
One Major Change
Implement the “5E+” Model
Even our best teachers still wanted to “explain” before “exploring”.
We matched activities to the classroom objectives and used the expected skills and content.
3. Evaluation
• Typically, we expect the students to tell us back that which we have been saying.
• They like this deal!
• They don’t need to think, just repeat after us.
3. Evaluation
What do we get?
• A “false sense”
of security
Question?
Are we really evaluating for understand?
SolutionSo, we matched the evaluation to the classroom objectives, which were also matched by the 5E+ activities.
Developing Teacher Leaders
Getting Started
Selected
•a focus
•a level
Getting Started• Sent out applications
• Got over 300 back
• Selected 35-40 teachers
Who did we select?
Provide three things
1. Deeper understanding of science
2. Learn how to improve objectives, lesson cycles, and evaluation for understanding
3. How to become a provider of
professional development
Bonus: Camaraderie
1. Deeper understanding of science
6 days of in-depth training with a national expert in the field
2. The Science Curriculum(Written-Taught-Tested)
• Tasks to try in classroom, share with each other, discuss, revise and receive feedback (met for extend times)
• Wrote objectives
• Wrote & tried 5E+ cycles
• Wrote evaluations & discussed them
Communications• Tried activities over time
• Got feedback from me and
• Got feedback from team leaders
• Emailed and phoned feedback
• Worked as Grade Level Teams
• Met regularly to share
3. Professional Developers
• Modeled professional development
• Chances to practice
• Coaching
• 2 days of planning for a summer academy
• Worked in grade-level teams
3. Professional Developers
• Week-long academy by grade level
• Worked in pairs
• Got daily and end-of-week feedback by peers and me
• Got feedback from participants
3. Professional Developers
• 2-day follow-up provided help with all things related to their professional development
• On-line follow-up with participants provided feedback for PD as well as the lesson cycles
It’s Not Over!• Seems like a lot to do for a one-week
academy?
• They can now provide PD for their school and district and we support PD by them for other LEAs and future summers.
• Some are in their 15th year of doing this.
Elementary Earth Science
Questions?