Staff Development
EDAD 5399
By
Dr. Harold Smith
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Who is responsible?
What must be taught?
Who must attend?
Purposes
What setting for staff development?
Special Programs?
Must attendees sign in?
How many days are required by TEA?
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• Who is responsible for campus staff
development?
• Campus Team
• Principal
• How are topics selected?
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• What topics will be addressed?
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AEIS report
ATP report
Campus Improvement Plan
Budget
The SBDM is required to sign off on staff
development.
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• Staff development may include:
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Training in Technology
Conflict Resolution
Discipline Strategies
Classroom Management
Student Code of Conduct
Classroom Instruction
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• Specific topics addressed in the Campus
Improvement Plan.
• District Requirements
• Legal Issues
• School Safety
• Parent Involvement
• (One 1% of your students will see a adult
male read this month)
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Laws and Procedures for Special Programs
Data interpretation
Teaching Strategies
Religious Rights
Civil Rights
Health Issues
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• Purposes of Staff Development
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Enhance Skills
Share Effective Strategies
Reflect on Curricular and Instructional Issues
Analyze Student Achievement Results
Reflect on Means of Increasing Student
Achievement
– Study Research
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Practice New Methods of Instructions
Identify Students’ Strengths and Weaknesses
Develop Meaningful Programs for Students
Discuss Research
Plan Research
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Study Teams
Individual Research
Peer Coaching
Workshops
Seminars
Conferences
Book Studies
College Courses
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Individual Guided Model
Observation/Assessment Model
Development/Improvement Model
Inquiry Model
Training Model
Other Models Meeting Local Needs
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• Special Program Requirements
– Title I Staff Development
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Parent Involvement Programs
Improve Student Performance
Basic Legal Requirements
Special Budget
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• Gifted and Talented Continued
– Teachers who provide instruction and services
to gifted student must receive 6 hours of staff
development annually
– Administrators and Counselors who have
authority for program decisions must have 6
hours of staff development.
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• Special Programs Continued
– Gifted and Talented Education
• Teacher must have completed 30 hours of staff
development before working with GT students in a
special setting.
• Assessing student needs, curriculum and instruction.
• Teacher does not have 30 hours?---• Must be completed within one semester.
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• Who Must Attend Staff Development?
– The Code does not name positions. But the
district may designate who must attend.
– Some special programs tell who must attend
– New teaching certificates and principal
certificates require hours to be earned.
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• Special Programs Continued
– Special Education
• Training that relates to instruction of students with
disabilities and is designed for educators who work
primarily outside the area of special education.
– What do you do with a Modification Sheet?
– How do I adjust my instruction to meet the needs of the
students in my class?
– What test will I give my students?
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• The Local Education Agency may set
additional staff development requirements
for all employees.
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• Adult Education
– Could Include Alternative High Schools
– Staff Hired after September 1, 1996 shall
receive 12 hours of staff development annually.
– Staff members new to adult education must
receive 6 hours before working with students.
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• In-service for professional development
may be reduced in individual cases if
documentation of exceptional circumstances
is submitted to TEA for approval.
• Records of professional development shall
be maintained by the district.
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• Teachers must earn 150 approved hours of
training each five years to renew their
certificate.
• All other professionals must earn 200 hours
each five years.
– Other professionals, principals, counselors,
superintendents, librarians, master teachers,
diagnosticians
• Must I earn 150 hours to keep my teacher
certificate and 200 hours to keep my
principal certificate?
• Do I have to earn 150 hours for each
teaching certificate?
• www.sbec.texas.state.us.tx
• Certificate information-left menu
• Certificate Renewal Requirements.
• Can a district require employees to attend
staff development?
• How can that be enforced.
• Can staff development hours count toward
renewal of certification?
Warning
• Have legal department check contract
before signing.
• Does district have a standard contract?
• Know what will be presented.
• Is the presentation consistent with district
requirements?
• Agree on time limits before beginning.
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Local curriculum staff
State conferences
Universities
Service Centers
Professional associations
TEA
Some of these groups have presentations
that can be downloaded.
Resistance to Change
• 1. Why change?
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What will it cost me?
Will change create more work for me?
Who is making us do this?
What is wrong with what we are doing?
Are other schools changing?
Change Principles
• 1. People don’t change unless they
share a compelling reason to change.
• 2. People don’t change unless they
have ownership in the change.
• 3. People don’t change unless their
leaders model that they are serious
about the change.
Change Principles
• 4. People are unlikely to change unless
they have a concrete picture of what
the change will look like for them
personally.
• 5. People can’t make a change—or
make it last—unless they receive
organizational support for the change.
Why Do Changes Not Happen?
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Too many topics are presented.
No support for change.
No follow up activities.
Funding.
The leadership does not support change.
You change—I don’t need to change.
Why Do Changes Not Happen?
• 7. Attempt to move too fast.
• 8. Lack of direction.
• 9. Change takes us from our comfort zone.
Assume-Don’t Assume
• 1. Do not assume that your vision of what
the change should be is the one that should
or could be implemented.
• 2. Assume that any significant innovation
requires individual implementers to work
out their own meaning
• 3. Assume that conflict and disagreement
are not only inevitable but fundamental to
successful change.
• 4. Assume that people need pressure to
change but it will be effective only under
conditions that allow them to react.
• 5. Assume that effective change takes time.
• 6. Do not assume that the reason for lack of
implementation is outright rejection of the
values embodied in the change, or hard-core
resistance to all change.
• 7. Do not expect all or even most people or
groups to change.
• 8. Assume that you will need a plan that is
based on the above assumptions and that
address the factors known to affect
implementation.
• 9. Assume that no amount of knowledge
will ever make it totally clear what action
should be taken.
• 10. Assume that changing the culture of
institutions is the real agenda, not
implementing single innovations.
Change Process
• You can’t mandate what matters
• Change is a journey, not a blueprint
• Problems are our friends
• Vision and strategic planning come later
• Individualism and collectivism must have
equal power
• Neither centralization or decentralization
works