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Idea: Monthly Topic on the PD List

The PD List decided to try the idea of having a “topic-of-the-month” this summer, as an “additional” way to use the Professional Development List -- in hopes that we could maximize our potential to learn from one another. We shared ideas for broad topic categories and possible descriptors for each topic (see below).

Periodically, the moderator will pose a question to the PD list (that others could choose to discuss or not) -- based on subscriber questions pertaining to that topic. Anyone should feel free at anytime to pose their _own_ questions, and share resources both on _and_ off the topic-of-the-month. But by having a monthly topic, it may provide us an opportunity to go into greater depth, share our work (and work-in-progress), and collect resources and the latest PD strategies, issues, and solutions. We could systematically compile these ideas and resources in the ALE Wiki.


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Vote on Priority Topics

Please see the list below, and reply to Jackie Taylor by Friday, June 15th at jataylor@utk.edu . Indicate your top 3 choices (from options A-K below). If your topic area of interest is not listed, feel free to suggest one in your reply to her.


Then we’ll begin on Monday, June 18th ! (June will be an abbreviated month, but why wait ‘til July?)


~ Suggested topics for the “topic-of-the-month.” Descriptors underneath each topic area are not meant to be limiting; rather, they are intended to offer a starting point or common understanding of what the topic may include. The topic may expand and evolve over the course of the discussion.

Number of Votes
Suggested Topics with descriptors
5
A) Alternative Delivery Models and Innovations in Blends

-- Alternatives to the all-face-to-face model of professional development, including but not limited to:

  • Sharing our OWN work and seeing others’: local/regional online courses
  • Tools/Course management systems such as Moodle
  • Pod casts
  • Synchronous distance PD such as Tapped In
  • Second Life
  • Use of interactive TV
  • Online Course Considerations: Facilitated, Non-Facilitated, and Self-Paced
  • Technology and Time Considerations
2
 B) Follow-Up Models to Face-to-Face Professional Development

-- Examples of effective follow-up to single session workshops or other face-to-face PD

1
 C) Professional Development Needs Assessments

-- Practical considerations for a variety of PD needs assessments and addressing needs on local, regional, and/or state levels

2
 D) Regional Professional Development Systems

-- Models, considerations, successes, and challenges of the regional PD system model

1
 E) Participation, Engagement, and Completion

-- Discussion of participation, engagement, and completion, including but not limited to:

  • How these are supported in PD delivery system models
  • “How Online PD “Counts”: Credits, Incentives, and Requirements
  • Accountability – all levels
3
 F) Professional Development Design and Development
  • Components of PD delivery models
  • Design and development considerations, including technology
  • Involving practitioners in PD design/development, etc.


1
 G) Models of Successful Online and Blended PD
  • Sharing models nationally and internationally
  • Developing and expanding a “single-source” portal for finding online PD


2
 H) Quality Professional Development

-- What is quality adult literacy professional development?

  • Standards, indicators, and how ALPD standards may differ from K-12 PD standards
  • Role of standards in building professional development delivery systems
  • What is quality _online_ professional development, and what are the considerations that differ from face-to-face PD?
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 I) Evaluating the Effectiveness of Professional Development

-- How do you gauge the effectiveness of professional development?

  • Designing with evaluation in mind
  • Tools, and strategies for measuring the effectiveness of PD from initial satisfaction to teacher change and beyond
  • Includes online and blended professional development designs and evaluation examples at various levels, and infrastructure support for the transfer of learning
  • Design considerations and implications for higher level evaluation


3
 J) Keys to Communities of Practice (CoP)

-- What learning communities are and strategies for building them, including, but not limited to:

  • Considerations in establishing and nurturing CoPs
  • Wikis and social networks
  • Distance Teaching and Online Facilitation considerations
  • Facilitator tips, face-to-face or distance
  • Role of moderator versus facilitator versus administrator versus participant, etc.
  • Lifecycles of online communities
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 K) Other? _________________________________________
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Thank you for your feedback.


Jackie jataylor@utk.edu

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