Staff Development EDAD 5399 By Dr. Harold Smith. Texas Education Code 21.451 Who is responsible? What must be taught? Who must attend? Purposes What setting.

Staff DevelopmentStaff Development

EDAD 5399

By

Dr. Harold Smith

Texas Education Code 21.451Texas Education Code 21.451

• Who is responsible?• What must be taught?• Who must attend?• Purposes• What setting for staff development?• Special Programs?• Must attendees sign in?• How many days are required by TEA?


• Who is responsible for campus staff development?

• Campus Team

• Principal

• How are topics selected?


• What topics will be addressed?– AEIS report– ATP report– Campus Improvement Plan– Budget– The SBDM is required to sign off on staff

development.


• Staff development may include:– Training in Technology– Conflict Resolution– Discipline Strategies– Classroom Management– Student Code of Conduct– Classroom Instruction


• Specific topics addressed in the Campus Improvement Plan.

• District Requirements• Legal Issues• School Safety• Parent Involvement• (One 1% of your students will see a adult

male read this month)


• Laws and Procedures for Special Programs

• Data interpretation

• Teaching Strategies

• Religious Rights

• Civil Rights

• Health Issues


• Purposes of Staff Development– Enhance Skills– Share Effective Strategies– Reflect on Curricular and Instructional Issues– Analyze Student Achievement Results– Reflect on Means of Increasing Student

Achievement– Study Research


• Purposes continued– Practice New Methods of Instructions– Identify Students’ Strengths and Weaknesses– Develop Meaningful Programs for Students– Discuss Research– Plan Research


• Methods– Study Teams

– Individual Research

– Peer Coaching

– Workshops

– Seminars

– Conferences

– Book Studies

– College Courses


• Models– Individual Guided Model– Observation/Assessment Model– Development/Improvement Model– Inquiry Model– Training Model– Other Models Meeting Local Needs


• Special Program Requirements– Title I Staff Development

• Parent Involvement Programs

• Improve Student Performance

• Basic Legal Requirements

• Special Budget


• Gifted and Talented Continued– Teachers who provide instruction and services

to gifted student must receive 6 hours of staff development annually

– Administrators and Counselors who have authority for program decisions must have 6 hours of staff development.


• Special Programs Continued– Gifted and Talented Education

• Teacher must have completed 30 hours of staff development before working with GT students in a special setting.

• Assessing student needs, curriculum and instruction.

• Teacher does not have 30 hours?----

• Must be completed within one semester.


• Who Must Attend Staff Development?– The Code does not name positions. But the

district may designate who must attend.– Some special programs tell who must attend– New teaching certificates and principal

certificates require hours to be earned.


• Special Programs Continued– Special Education

• Training that relates to instruction of students with disabilities and is designed for educators who work primarily outside the area of special education.

– What do you do with a Modification Sheet?

– How do I adjust my instruction to meet the needs of the students in my class?

– What test will I give my students?


• The Local Education Agency may set additional staff development requirements for all employees.


• Adult Education– Could Include Alternative High Schools– Staff Hired after September 1, 1996 shall

receive 12 hours of staff development annually.– Staff members new to adult education must

receive 6 hours before working with students.


• In-service for professional development may be reduced in individual cases if documentation of exceptional circumstances is submitted to TEA for approval.

• Records of professional development shall be maintained by the district.


• Teachers must earn 150 approved hours of training each five years to renew their certificate.

• All other professionals must earn 200 hours each five years.– Other professionals, principals, counselors,

superintendents, librarians, master teachers, diagnosticians

• Must I earn 150 hours to keep my teacher certificate and 200 hours to keep my principal certificate?

• Do I have to earn 150 hours for each teaching certificate?

• www.sbec.texas.state.us.tx• Certificate information-left menu• Certificate Renewal Requirements.

• Can a district require employees to attend staff development?

• How can that be enforced.

• Can staff development hours count toward renewal of certification?

WarningWarning

• Have legal department check contract before signing.

• Does district have a standard contract?

• Know what will be presented.

• Is the presentation consistent with district requirements?

• Agree on time limits before beginning.

SourcesSources1. Local curriculum staff

2. State conferences

3. Universities

4. Service Centers

5. Professional associations

6. TEA

7. Some of these groups have presentations that can be downloaded.

Resistance to ChangeResistance to Change• 1. Why change?

• 2. What will it cost me?

• 3. Will change create more work for me?

• 4. Who is making us do this?

• 5. What is wrong with what we are doing?

• 6. Are other schools changing?

Change PrinciplesChange Principles• 1. People don’t change unless they

share a compelling reason to change.

• 2. People don’t change unless they have ownership in the change.

• 3. People don’t change unless their leaders model that they are serious about the change.

Change PrinciplesChange Principles

• 4. People are unlikely to change unless they have a concrete picture of what the change will look like for them personally.

• 5. People can’t make a change—or make it last—unless they receive organizational support for the change.

Why Do Changes Not Happen?Why Do Changes Not Happen?

• 1. Too many topics are presented.

• 2. No support for change.

• 3. No follow up activities.

• 4. Funding.

• 5. The leadership does not support change.

• 6. You change—I don’t need to change.

Why Do Changes Not Happen?Why Do Changes Not Happen?

• 7. Attempt to move too fast.

• 8. Lack of direction.

• 9. Change takes us from our comfort zone.

Assume-Don’t AssumeAssume-Don’t Assume

• 1. Do not assume that your vision of what the change should be is the one that should or could be implemented.

• 2. Assume that any significant innovation requires individual implementers to work out their own meaning

• 3. Assume that conflict and disagreement are not only inevitable but fundamental to successful change.

• 4. Assume that people need pressure to change but it will be effective only under conditions that allow them to react.

• 5. Assume that effective change takes time.

• 6. Do not assume that the reason for lack of implementation is outright rejection of the values embodied in the change, or hard-core resistance to all change.

• 7. Do not expect all or even most people or groups to change.

• 8. Assume that you will need a plan that is based on the above assumptions and that address the factors known to affect implementation.

• 9. Assume that no amount of knowledge will ever make it totally clear what action should be taken.

• 10. Assume that changing the culture of institutions is the real agenda, not implementing single innovations.

Change ProcessChange Process

• You can’t mandate what matters

• Change is a journey, not a blueprint

• Problems are our friends

• Vision and strategic planning come later

• Individualism and collectivism must have equal power

• Neither centralization or decentralization works

Staff Development EDAD 5399 By Dr. Harold Smith. Texas Education Code 21.451 Who is responsible? What must be taught? Who must attend? Purposes What setting.

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