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Danielle ThigpenAET/545 E-Learning Design

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Professional Development & Teacher Certification

Professional development is a big part of teaching, and keeping certifications current. Professional development, can be completed through online classes, webinars, or other computer related sources.

After implementing these e-learning styles of teaching, teachers will be able to complete their continuing education units, and fulfill NAEYC professional development criteria.

All staff that work directly with students will be a part of this analysis. This includes principals, teachers, assistant teachers, instructional aids, paraprofessionals, and counselors.

Professional Development Overview

Benefits of Professional Development

•Promoting the Development of Self-Regulation in Young Children •Facilitating Language Development in Young Children •Measuring Classroom Quality •Crossing Boundaries and Building Bridges: Leadership Lessons for All of Us

Forty three point eight percent of teachers reported that they had participated in professional development activities focusing on the use of computers for instruction in the past 12 months.

Learning and Teaching

Getting Started The first step is to determine

what you want your audience to learn, and be able to do at the end of class. To help you specify your objectives for teacher learning, answer the following questions:

What is the topic of the lesson? What do I want teachers to

learn? What do I want them to

understand and be able to do at the end of this tutorial?

What do I want them to take away from this particular lesson?

Free Writing/Minute Paper/Question of the Day Exercise These are activities that prompt students to write a response to an open question and can

be done at any time during a class. Writing activities are usually 1-2 minutes, and can focus on key questions and ideas or ask students to make predictions.

Ice Breakers Ice Breakers are low-stakes activities that get students to interact and talk to each other,

and encourage subsequent classroom interactions. Think–Pair–Share This type of activity first asks students to consider a question on their own, and then

provides an opportunity for students to discuss it in pairs, and finally together with the whole group.

Jigsaw A Jigsaw is a cooperative active learning exercise where students are grouped into teams to

solve a problem or analyze a reading. These can be done in one of two ways – either each team works on completing a different portion of the assignment and then contributes their knowledge to the class as a whole, or within each group, one student is assigned to a portion of the assignment (the jigsaw comes from the bringing together the various ideas at the end of the activity to produce a solution to the problem).

Interactive Activities

Benefits of Learning Online:

1. Save Time 2. Save Money3. Get CEU and College Credit4. Add Flexibility5. Increase Accountability6. Bring Education Theory to

Life7. Promote Transference of

Learning to the Workplace8. Create Excitement about

Learning

Possible Assessment Methods• Multiple Choice Tests• Survey• Portfolio• Report• Presentation

Summative Assessment

Why Is Teacher Development Important?

Ongoing Professional Development

It is critical for veteran teachers to have ongoing and regular opportunities to learn from each other. Ongoing professional development keeps teachers up-to-date on new research on how children learn, emerging technology tools for the classroom, new curriculum resources, and more. The best professional development is ongoing, experiential, collaborative, and connected to and derived from working with students and understanding their culture.

New MediaWhile almost all schools offer professional development in

traditional, face-to-face settings, the use of electronic media to deliver

training rose dramatically from 2013 to 2015.

Many teachers also reported acquiring professional development through collaborative and reflective activities outside traditional training

settings.

1.Reach a very targeted audience – either live or on demand – quickly and efficiently 

2.Engage participants through the use of video, audio, slides and interactive options

3.Achieve greater reach at a generally lower cost than face-to-face meetings 

4.Live webinars can be re-broadcast as on-demand versions, thus enabling knowledge-sharing and optimum utilization of interesting content

5.User-friendly for participants: no travel or accommodation costs involved, and webinars can be searched and referred to for specific content afterwards 

6.A webinar can be viewed on a PC, Mac, tablet or smartphone 

7.‘Green’ communications tool: by reducing travel for both presenters and participants, webinars are an environmentally friendly option 

Why Webinars?

Educational research: webinars lead to a higher study success rate and greater satisfaction among students.

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