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Two basic planning steps in preparing for staff development include:
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- Reviewing policies, regulations and agreements
- Conducting a needs analysis
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Three recommendations are:
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Let teachers lead
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put teachers in charge of training functions and/or planning
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Make staff development serve wider goals
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vision and planning regarding technology need to be reviewed - and possibly revised - annually
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Characteristics of Successful Staff Development
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Planned by staff groups
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Task-specific, focusing on actual uses of technology
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that will serve curricular or administrative goals
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Led by staff members who use the technology
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Adequate in the time it allows for teachers to learn, practice, and apply new concepts and techniques.
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Offered to staff members who have access to hardware and software
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Sensitive to staff members’ personal needs and schedules, offering credit, stipends, and/or release time.
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Flexible in allowing teachers to use what they learn in a variety of ways
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Supported by handouts
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and that trainees can use to support lessons in their classrooms.
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Appropriate to staff members’ current attitudes and expertise.
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with adequate, ongoing staff and time for person-to-person and small-group instruction.
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Accepted throughout the school community as an ongoing activity, not a single event.
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Continuously evaluated and improved.
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Samuel WightmanThe following excerpts are from Chapter 4 - Winning Strategies "Teachers and Technology"
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