WEEK 4
REVISED ACTION RESEARCH PLAN
The purpose of this action plan is to audit the way our school and district handles staff development and to devise a plan to increase interest, participation, collaboration, and enthusiasm with regard to attending and presenting staff development sessions. The focus of this research plan will be the teachers that have to sit through ineffective staff development after staff development and never take anything back to the classroom to be implemented because they never got any time for active engagement and collaboration within core groups or PLC’s to see how the staff development material would work within the scheme of what they are doing within there classrooms.
Questions that will be researched:
1. What can be done to make staff development more interesting, fun, and effective for teachers?
2. What types of activities were done within the last 2 years that made teachers willing to participate and have fun?
3. How much time needs to be built into the staff development for collaboration amongst core groups or PLC’s?
How can this staff development be implemented into the classroom?
SCHOOL VISION: NFHS: Making EXEMPLARY students, one student at a time.
GOAL: To devise a plan to increase interest, participation, collaboration, and enthusiasm with regard to attending and presenting staff development sessions.
OUTCOMES: Staff developments that are interactive
Increased teacher participation
Increased teacher collaboration
ACTIVITIES: Pre-Staff development blogging
Activity based presentations which include blog concerns and opinions
Staff development topics: Blogging for Communication, Brain-Based Learning, Shaping School Culture: NFHS Finding Its Identity, Vertical and Horizontal Teaming, Using Technology to Implement SKYPE Lessons, TAKS vs. End of Course, Block Schedule vs. 8 Period Day
RESOURCES/RESEARCH TOOLS NEEDED: Teacher feedback: The blog
Research successful staff
developments
Staff Development Committee
RESPONSIBILITY TO ADDRESS ACTIVITIES: Administrators advising and giving support
Teachers giving feedback
Committee interviewing teachers
TIME LINE: 2010/2011 school year Approx 1-2 staff development per 6 week period
Benchmarks/ ASSESSMENT : Staff development evaluations
Implementation of staff development into classrooms
Revisions to SIP/PIP based on monitoring and assessments: Additional staff developments have been written into the SIP
Questions that will be researched:
1. What can be done to make staff development more interesting, fun, and effective for teachers?
2. What types of activities were done within the last 2 years that made teachers willing to participate and have fun?
3. How much time needs to be built into the staff development for collaboration amongst core groups or PLC’s?
How can this staff development be implemented into the classroom?
SCHOOL VISION: NFHS: Making EXEMPLARY students, one student at a time.
GOAL: To devise a plan to increase interest, participation, collaboration, and enthusiasm with regard to attending and presenting staff development sessions.
OUTCOMES: Staff developments that are interactive
Increased teacher participation
Increased teacher collaboration
ACTIVITIES: Pre-Staff development blogging
Activity based presentations which include blog concerns and opinions
Staff development topics: Blogging for Communication, Brain-Based Learning, Shaping School Culture: NFHS Finding Its Identity, Vertical and Horizontal Teaming, Using Technology to Implement SKYPE Lessons, TAKS vs. End of Course, Block Schedule vs. 8 Period Day
RESOURCES/RESEARCH TOOLS NEEDED: Teacher feedback: The blog
Research successful staff
developments
Staff Development Committee
RESPONSIBILITY TO ADDRESS ACTIVITIES: Administrators advising and giving support
Teachers giving feedback
Committee interviewing teachers
TIME LINE: 2010/2011 school year Approx 1-2 staff development per 6 week period
Benchmarks/ ASSESSMENT : Staff development evaluations
Implementation of staff development into classrooms
Revisions to SIP/PIP based on monitoring and assessments: Additional staff developments have been written into the SIP
