PRESENTING EFFECTIVE PROFESSIONAL

DEVELOPMENT

THROUGH THE STUDY TEAM CONCEPT

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 2004-05

STUDY GROUPS – K- 12

    Choose goal/target that focuses on student achievement (that correlates with school or district goals)

    Write CEU equivalent form and action plan

    Sign up for minimum of 1.0 CEU’s for year. You can work in study group during in service days/designated staff meetings, team, department or pod meetings. Commit to a minimum of 10 contact hours.

    Examples:

To develop mini-lessons for teaching critical stance using non-fiction reading selections. This will promote student understanding of critical stance objective on the CMT.

To develop inquiry based learning in science labs that correlates to the new CMT performance tasks in science.

To design integrated units of study on writing to learn with mini lessons on summarizing and synthesizing information.

To refine strategies for using writers workshop based upon the Columbia Writing Project. To implement and present these strategies to students and staff.
 

IN-SERVICE DAYS 2004-05

August 2004 – Explain the study group concept – overview K-12 opening; in depth staff meetings at each school.

October 21 – study group work (sign up and formation of groups at staff meeting before October 20^th. 

October 22 – Betty Hollas – motivating reluctant learner/differentiated instruction

“ Keeping Motivation in a standards Era” + “strategies that Support Differentiated Instruction K-8”

January 28 – technology + study groups + ?

March 24 –  technology + study groups + ?

May 16 – share study group results at each school
 

CONSULTANTS

Hire a consultant for K-3 focusing on reading and writing – (will come to school 5 days during the year.)

Train teachers in investigations/ Scott Foresmann/Holt