measuring teachers' readiness
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Julie Evans, Project Tomorrow
Mary Ann Wolf, Friday Institute
June 29, 2014
Measuring teachers’ readiness
to leverage digital content:
are you ready?
1. Welcome and Introductions
2. Overview of the NSF Grant
3. Digital Readiness Spectrum
4. Interactive Simulations
5. Lessons Learned
6. Wrap Up
Today's session
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Learning & Teaching with Technology
21st Century Skills: Digital Citizenship & Global Awareness
Math and Science Instruction / Digital Writing
Students’ Career Interests in STEM
Professional Development / Teacher Preparation
Internet Safety / Digital Footprints
Administrators’ Challenges / Bandwidth Capacity
Emerging Technologies both in & out of the Classroom
Mobile Devices, Online Learning, Digital Content, E-textbooks
Educational Games, Social Media tools and applications
Flipped Classroom, Print to Digital, Online Assessments
Designing the 21st Century School
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District administrators’ views: what has
greatest potential to impact student success?
1. Enhancing teacher effectiveness
2. Integrating 21st century skills into curriculum
3. Leveraging technology more effectively
Digital content
Blended learning
Tablets and other mobile devices
1:1 programs
Online textbooks
Flipped learning models
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Teachers’ use of digital content in the
classroom
14%
52%
32%
32%
21%
63%
12%
18%
13%
39%
23%
42%
8%
17%
14%
24%
15%
46%
Videos that I create
Animations
Real time data
Online textbooks
Game environments
Videos that I find online
English teachers Math teachers Science teachers
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Teachers’ use of digital content in the
classroom
“Use of digital content helps students
develop critical thinking and
problem solving skills”
2009: 27% of classroom teachers
2013: 38% of classroom teachers
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Digital content in the classroom
Challenges?
Only 25% of technology leaders say they have
enough bandwidth to support digital content
usage in the classroom
55% of principals say that there are not enough
computers to support student use
And 41% of principals say that it is hard to
understand the role of digital content within
Common Core
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Digital content in the classroom
Challenges?
1/3 of principals say that their teachers are
inadequately trained to use digital content within
instruction
45% identify effective teacher PD as one of their
greatest challenges right now
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Professional Development Wish List
1st year 1-3 4-10 11-15 16+
How to differentiate instruction using technology
51% 48% 44% 44% 46%
Identifying digital content 39% 33% 33% 34% 35%
Identifying mobile apps 39% 37% 36% 36% 35%
Using games 37% 29% 26% 24% 26%
Using tablets 32% 31% 31% 30% 31%
Implementing a blended classroom
27% 24% 23% 23% 22%
Teachers’ wish list for professional
development in technology use
Years of experience
National Science Foundation
3 Year Grant
Teachers' Readiness to Adopt
and Adapt Content
(TRAAC)
Develop tools to assess teachers’ digital readiness.
Understand the efficacy of interventions and identify strategies for facilitating teachers’ growth along the “Digital Readiness Spectrum.”
Identify digital resources that advance teachers’ growth along the “Digital Readiness Spectrum.”
Inform teacher preparation programs.
Grant goals
Assumptions re: digital content
implementation and teacher professional
development
“Build it and they will come” & “Promote it and they will use it”
“Good for one, good for all professional development model”
“Younger teachers who are digital natives are more likely to use digital resources in their classroom”
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Despite investments in professional development, teachers’ abilities to use digital content has not changed significantly.
Centralized control of the instructional process is usurping the ability of teachers to personalize instruction with digital content.
Adoption of digital content for sporadic, lesson plan use is not the desired outcome.
Goal should be to build teachers’ capacity to internalize the use of digital content and adapt the resources appropriately within the classroom.
Reality in many classrooms
Approximately 40 middle school math and science
teachers from a school district in rural North Carolina
4 instructional technology coaches to support the
teachers
Professional development interventions Spring 2012
through June 2014
Data collection Spring 2012 through June 2014
Comprehensive report to be published in August 2014
Methodology
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What is the spectrum of digital readiness for K-12 teachers?
What factors influence their adoption and adaptation of digital
content resources?
What are the most effective interventions and support
mechanisms for moving teachers along the “Digital Readiness
Spectrum?”
What are the characteristics or “key markers” along the “Digital
Readiness Spectrum?”
How do we create “entry points” for teachers along the
spectrum?
What can we learn that can inform teacher preparatory
programs, in-service training programs and other research
initiatives involving teachers and cyber-learning tools and
resources?
Original research questions
1. Be intensive, ongoing, job-embedded, and connected to practice.
2. Focus on student learning and address the teaching of specific curriculum content.
3. Align with school improvement priorities and goals.
4. Build strong working relationships among teachers.
(Darling-Hammond, et. al., 2009)
Elements of effective teacher professional
development
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Coaches Teachers
Webinars Webinars
Face-to-Face PD: Digital
Learning
Face-to-Face PD: Digital Tools
& Resources
Face-to-Face PD: Coaching
Strategies
Day-to-Day, Job-Embedded
Coaching
Teacher Results: Digital
Readiness Spectrum
Development of Units
Recommendations for
Informal PD (i.e. MOOC-Eds,
Twitter)
Online Guided Content
Access to Online Portal &
Community
Digital Readiness Spectrum
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Digital Readiness Technology readiness: “the behavior process behind
the adoption of technological products and services.” Four main components: Optimism, Innovativeness, Discomfort and Insecurity. (Van der Rhee et al., 2007)
Digital content: multimedia or online information (social media, videos, blogging, wikis, etc.)
Digital Readiness Spectrum:
A teacher’s level of use of digital content will vary as a teacher becomes more comfortable with the technology
Defining digital readiness
Many different models, broad literature
base.
◦ CBAM
◦ ADL Model of ICT Uptake
◦ Technology Maturity Model (TMM)
◦ NETS
◦ Blooms Digital Taxonomy
Most models not designed to give
feedback to teachers
Background for the digital readiness
spectrum
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Levels of Use St
age
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on
cern
Survival Mastery Impact Innovation
Awareness
Informational
Management
Collaboration
Refocusing
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Digital readiness assessment
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Coach
Teacher
Observer
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Simulation 1:
Coach:
◦ Not seeing shifts in instruction or use of digital content despite PD
◦ Concerned that teacher just lectures and seems tied to textbook.
◦ Believe this teacher is a laggard and on the DRS:
Survival: Teachers struggle with technology, are assailed by problems, cannot anticipate problem
Informational: General awareness, but in a detached way
English Language Arts Teacher:
◦ Are overwhelmed, trying to implement new standards.
◦ Tried to use digital content in lesson, but it didn’t work and you went back to original lesson plan.
◦ Know that the coach is not there to evaluate you in a formal way, but still feel intimidated.
Observer: 2 minutes prep, 4 minutes role play, 4 minutes for feedback
◦ Ask coach for 2 things he/she did well
◦ Ask teacher for 2 things the coach did well
◦ Share 2 things you think the coach did well and one constructive recommendation
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Simulation 2:
Coach:
◦ Pleased that this first year teacher is embracing digital learning efforts.
◦ Concerned that use of technology is more focused on the technology
than the pedagogy.
◦ Believe this teacher is an early majority and on the DRS:
Mastery: Teachers develop coping strategies, increase
competence/confidence
Between Management (attention to processes and tasks) and
Collaboration (focus is on coordinating and cooperating with others)
Science Teacher:
◦ Excited to be in a school with digital learning.
◦ Surprised other teachers find it hard to use technology, but you are
struggling to keep up with planning and grading.
Observer: 2 minutes prep, 4 minutes for role play, 4 minutes for feedback
◦ Ask coach for 2 things he/she did well
◦ Ask teacher for 2 things the coach did well
◦ Share 2 things you think the coach did well and one constructive
recommendation
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20 CEUs available for completion
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Thank you.
Let’s continue this conversation.
Julie Evans
Project Tomorrow
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