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Developing Teacher Leaders
By
Manley Midgett
North Carolina Teacher Academy
909 Aviation Parkway, Suite 700
Morrisville, NC 27560
North Carolina Teacher Academy
• Started in 1994• Funded by the General Assembly• Connected to Department of Education• Offer 35 different modules• Served 78% of schools (1,783)• Served over 45,000 teachers in extensive
professional development experiences• Provided 300 literacy coaches
The North Carolina Teacher Academy Professional Development Standards are aligned with the National Staff Development Council’s Standards for Staff Development and are designed to assist schools in outlining school improvement goals. All professional Development is results-driven, standards-based, and job-embedded.
Change on “three fronts”
• The written curriculum (Standards)
• The taught curriculum
• The tested curriculum
1. Standards
“It is worth it to spend time converting state standards into objectives that include student behaviors and science process skills matched with content.”
(Typically, there is a tendency to jump directly on the content.)
One Major Change
Implement the “5E+” Model
Even our best teachers still wanted to “explain” before “exploring”.
We matched activities to the classroom objectives and used the expected skills and content.
3. Evaluation
• Typically, we expect the students to tell us back that which we have been saying.
• They like this deal!
• They don’t need to think, just repeat after us.
SolutionSo, we matched the evaluation to the classroom objectives, which were also matched by the 5E+ activities.
Getting Started• Sent out applications
• Got over 300 back
• Selected 35-40 teachers
Who did we select?
Provide three things
1. Deeper understanding of science
2. Learn how to improve objectives, lesson cycles, and evaluation for understanding
3. How to become a provider of
professional development
Bonus: Camaraderie
2. The Science Curriculum(Written-Taught-Tested)
• Tasks to try in classroom, share with each other, discuss, revise and receive feedback (met for extend times)
• Wrote objectives
• Wrote & tried 5E+ cycles
• Wrote evaluations & discussed them
Communications• Tried activities over time
• Got feedback from me and
• Got feedback from team leaders
• Emailed and phoned feedback
• Worked as Grade Level Teams
• Met regularly to share
3. Professional Developers
• Modeled professional development
• Chances to practice
• Coaching
• 2 days of planning for a summer academy
• Worked in grade-level teams
3. Professional Developers
• Week-long academy by grade level
• Worked in pairs
• Got daily and end-of-week feedback by peers and me
• Got feedback from participants
3. Professional Developers
• 2-day follow-up provided help with all things related to their professional development
• On-line follow-up with participants provided feedback for PD as well as the lesson cycles
It’s Not Over!• Seems like a lot to do for a one-week
academy?
• They can now provide PD for their school and district and we support PD by them for other LEAs and future summers.
• Some are in their 15th year of doing this.