To begin a professional development, my plan would be to first evaluate last year’s STaR Chart to see what areas need to be addressed. I would also address the campus plan to see where we need to be. A survey out to the teachers would be another direction to go. We could see what technology the teachers would like to use more in their classes, what they feel they would like to be trained on. This professional development could be separated into an afternoon for either grade level, subject level, or interest level. Once I determined what areas were to be covered, how it would be spread out, and how long it needed to take, I would then seek out who could do our training. We may have teachers on our campus who are qualified in that area of technology and use it on a regular basis and would like to teach their peers. We could also look within our district for presenters. Equipment would be needed for teaching each area and it would be beneficial if teachers brought with them an idea of a lesson they would like to use with this technology. They would need to be given the opportunity to apply what they have been taught to do at the end or during their training. We would want them comfortable using this technology before they left the professional development.
For evaluation the Action Plan for the professional development, we need to get feedback from the individuals in the PD. One good way to get feedback in mass is www.surveymonkey.com. We can put in questions to directly see what worked for the teachers, what they would like to be done differently, and how we could improve the next one. In the following year, we can go back and compare the STaR Chart results to see if any improvement was made.
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