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Assignment #1:
Moving from Sit & Get to Show & Go
As a teacher of Career and Technical Education, (CTE for short), we relish the opportunity to develop our students’ talents. We are primarily project based learning driven, with our students producing products or completing projects on a daily or weekly basis. This takes an exorbitant amount of time and money. For that reason and your continued support of our CTE programs, I thank you.
I understand the need for meeting together as a large group, especially after the past year and a half. Reestablishing the bonds of friendship, camaraderie, overall mission, and purpose are extremely important. Introducing new members, administrators, administrative moves, and a myriad of other topics are all best presented in a large group setting.We know that this is the best way to do so with a large group when imparting basic information.
When reflecting on the start of this past school year, all of us in the room represent a significant investment of time and therefore money in professional development. Just a quick calculation of the amount of time invested in PD by the district, five Act 80 Days, plus at least 3 of our in-service days, and you have committed 4.6% of our contracted days amounting to over one million dollars in PD!
Your commitment to Professional Development is unquestioned. Your commitment to improving pedagogy for our students is unquestioned. Your commitment to providing new opportunities to our students is unparalleled in the region. As a teacher,the need to change and adapt from our current model of ‘sit and get’ Professional Development to a learner driven Professional Learning model is very apparent.
According to Allison Gulamhussein of the National School Board Association, (NSBA), Center for Public Education, (CPE); “Most professional development today is ineffective. It neither changes teacher practice nor improves student learning.” This is particularly true of the most common PD, the one-time workshop, (Gulamhussein, 2013). We would not accept a CTE teacher telling a student about a process or procedure, then expecting the student to perform at a high level without practice. Why do we expect teachers to?
Replacing Professional Development with Professional Learning meeting the individual needs of teachers is a model we should adopt. Just as our students need practice to implement a new concept, teachers need time to adopt and implement a change in pedagogy. We need to focus on adaption, not adoption, (Goodwin, 2015), helping teachers through the implementation phase with support and coaching. This can take 20 separate instances of practice and coaching, adding up to as much as 50 hours of instruction and practice, depending on the complexity of the concept and any specific challenges being adapted, (Gulamhussein, 2013).
Just as with our students, teacher learners need to be engaged in learning a new practice or concept, utilizing differing methods so the teacher learner can make sense and reflect on the new practice. Just as with our students, modeling and demonstrating the desired behavior are one of the best ways to help learners understand a new concept, with “Show and Go,” replacing “Sit and Get”. Just as with our students, relevance is key. The teacher learner needs to see how this applies to their classroom, specifically geared towards their content area, grade level, or department. By doing so, we can move from the old professional development model to the new professional learning model, having a greater impact on student achievement and learning, meeting your overall district goals and our classroom goals.
To produce my presentation, I decided to stick to the tried and true, a slide presentation done in Google Slides, with voiceover and presentation screen. The images are all creative commons, with the citations listed in the references. The music is royalty free for non-profit use from Fesliyan Studios. I used the Microsoft video editing software included on my laptop, along with uploading the video for streaming to my youtube channel. If you click on the link for my youtube channel, all of my videos are set to private, only viewable on my ePortfolio, CTEeducator. While developing my presentation, I had trouble reconciling my need to present as much information as possible, with the minimalist presentation styles mentioned in the video, ‘Five Simple Rules…’, by Duarte. While keeping these principles in mind, I also kept in mind the concept of the edutainer, as referenced by Nick Fuhrman in his TEDx talk, One Thing that All Great Teachers Do. The final polishing was done with youtube as well.
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