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1002 Pre-Conference
Participants:
Jayne Germany
Jodie Ingram
Sandra Hines
July 27, 2004
Sandra Hines: who wants to go first
Jodie Ingram: I can
Jayne Germany: do we want to focus on our goals or our mentees goals?
Sandra Hines: our goals I think
Jayne Germany: okay
Sandra Hines: i haven't meet with my mentee
Jodie Ingram: I haven't got my mentees goals yet
Jayne Germany: shoot jodie
Jodie Ingram: Develop effective instructional strategies for adult learning
Sandra Hines: so you will develop the strategies that your mentee will use?
Jodie Ingram: no as a professional goal for me
Jayne Germany: are you 2 planning an adult learning experience together?
Jodie Ingram: yes
Sandra Hines: so as you work with the mentee, you will be developing strategies for you to use?
Jayne Germany: How will you know the strategies are effective?
Jodie Ingram: I guess I want to have something to take to her when I meet with her. to have more background knowledge
Sandra Hines: so will you do research to look into stategies
Jodie Ingram: yes
Jayne Germany: sounds good
Sandra Hines: where do you plan on looking for ideas
Jodie Ingram: online through google I guess
Sandra Hines: what will you use as search words.
Jodie Ingram: "adult learning" strategies
Jayne Germany: who is the person you are working with? What is your target audience?
Sandra Hines: sounds logical
Sandra Hines: back to jayne's question. how will you decide if they are effective
Jodie Ingram: my mentee is a high school computer teacher that helps me train teachers to integrate technology. Well that is the plan. Right now she just teaches software
Jayne Germany: thanks for the background.
Sandra Hines: and you want her to help you more with staff development?
Jayne Germany: Will you teach the "lesson" together, or just her?
Jodie Ingram: just her
Jodie Ingram: yes more help
Jodie Ingram: on the effective : if it leading to increase student use of technology enhanced lessons
Sandra Hines: will you really be developing strategies, or researching and practicing them?
Jodie Ingram: I guess research and practice. Why reinvent the wheel
Jayne Germany: So you want to broaden your knowledge base so you have somehting to bring her for her prep?
Sandra Hines: good way to judge.. but how will you assess if they are using it more
Jodie Ingram: teacher submitted lesson plans
Sandra Hines: that could work
Jodie Ingram: Thanks for the help. yall are getting really good at this
Sandra Hines: so are you sticking with your goal? or revising it any?
Jodie Ingram: rewording it. It will take me a minute to gather my thoughts
Jayne Germany: take your time
Sandra Hines: yes
Jodie Ingram: research and use effective instructional strategies for adult learners assessed by the submission of teacher created lesson plans
Sandra Hines: wow.. great
Sandra Hines: i like it
Jayne Germany: sounds great
Sandra Hines: jodie,
Jayne Germany: Who's next?
Sandra Hines: you ready
Jayne Germany: yep
Sandra Hines: go for it
Jayne Germany: My goals sound very similar to the last ones becuase I want to continue practicing on a new population....
Sandra Hines: I struggled with that too
Jayne Germany: I am working with a colleague to revamp our teacher study groups
Jayne Germany: that have been technical training so far, and we want them to be more about teaching strategies and content
Sandra Hines: connie would be proud
Jayne Germany: hee hee, thanks..here comes the goal--sounds like jodie's
Jayne Germany: collaborate to create effective andragogical strategies designed to model student-centered leaning with teachers.
Jodie Ingram: wow
Jayne Germany: andragogical is adult learning--like pedagogical
Sandra Hines: big word there
Jayne Germany: I might just change it to adult learning...
Jodie Ingram: new word.
Sandra Hines: like I asked Jodie, will you create the strategies?
Jayne Germany: yes, we will brainstorm together--we both have some ideas
Sandra Hines: how will you test them and decide if they are effective
Jayne Germany: We are testing them right now in tech integration academies--what works, what doesn't--so far a lot of it's working, just some more successful than others...
Jodie Ingram: will your teachers be student centered learners
Jayne Germany: Changing the time frame from 4 days into 45 minutes is the cahllenge
Sandra Hines: how are you determining the effectivness?
Jayne Germany: what activities can be isolated
Jayne Germany: JodieYES! We are focusing on modeling student centered learning
Jayne Germany: Sandra, Teacher observation, teacher inerviews, reflection activities in study groups
Jodie Ingram: perfect
Sandra Hines: sounds like a good plan with a good goal
Sandra Hines: Is there anything else we need to know or can help you with
Jayne Germany: We feel the challenge will be the follow up--teachers have to be there for the study groups buth they don't have to follow up
Jayne Germany: No, I don't thinks o..
Sandra Hines: why not the follow up requirment
Jayne Germany: If they receive a laptop, they have to attend 6 hours of study groups in a year--lotsa reluctant, passive learners
Jodie Ingram: my teachers would do flips for laptops
Jayne Germany: Yeah, you'd think...Ideally, we want them to feel they get so much out of it that they want to come back
Sandra Hines: i see.. so you are sure they can use them.. but don't want overload on reflection?
Jayne Germany: Actually, most attendees do get a lot out of them, but it's tech knowledge
Jayne Germany: no..not too much reflection
Jodie Ingram: i like the idea of moving to content
Jayne Germany: my big focus for next year
Jodie Ingram: and integration strategies
Sandra Hines: good focus
Jayne Germany: Okay, Sandra, you ready?
Sandra Hines: yup
Jodie Ingram: go for it
Sandra Hines: Improve questioning strategies to facilitate the development of staff development opportunities that appropriately incorporate the use of technology.
Sandra Hines: I am planning to work with our staff development and curriculum people to integrate technoloyg
Jayne Germany: What skills will you focus on improving?
Sandra Hines: questioning
Jayne Germany: Sounds like a great project!
Jayne Germany: What specifics about questioning? wait time? clarifying?
Sandra Hines: I hope so... focus on the content that they want to get across and enhance it with technology
Sandra Hines: yes...smile
Sandra Hines: I want to be better at reading them and asking the right questions
Jayne Germany: technology as a tool to enhace curriculum--i like it
Jayne Germany: good skill to improve!
Sandra Hines: using the coaching/questioning ideas from cognitive coaching
Jayne Germany: That would work for an objective under the goal.
Sandra Hines: what would work?
Jayne Germany: being better at reading audience
Sandra Hines: ah yes
Jodie Ingram: what kind of opportunities are you trying to develop
Sandra Hines: staff development has the things they think teachers need... I want to help them enhance the delivery and learning experiences of the teachers.
Jodie Ingram: so you are looking at enhance other staff developments besides your own
Sandra Hines: we are revamping the curriculum and the assessment instruments and every teacher is going to go to district training. I'll work with that team
Sandra Hines: yes. others, not mine.. but what I learn will impact my staff development as well
Jayne Germany: A chance to reach every teacher! Wow! It sounds like you have thought that goal out. Do you have any concerns abut this or other goals?
Sandra Hines: Improve coaching/mentioning skills to encourage the planning of staff development that considers the needs of a diverse group of adult learners and their various levels of knowledge and skills.
Plan and implement an evaluation
Jayne Germany: Wow! You packed a lot in there, and quite succinctly.
Sandra Hines: Plan and implement an evaluation instrument to measure the effectiveness of the staff development.
that is all.. smile
Jodie Ingram: great goal. I want a copy of that instrument
Jayne Germany: What kind of instrument? Participant evaluation?
Sandra Hines: chuckle... hope I can do it...
Jayne Germany: sounds like a BIG task
Sandra Hines: Haven't decided... hope it will be digital though
Jodie Ingram: What skills are you looking to improve speficallly
Sandra Hines: big? that is why I may leave it off.. smle
Jayne Germany: Ooh--an online survey would be quite effective!
Sandra Hines: for me.. skills.. coaching skills
Jayne Germany: Ever used survey monkey? There are lots of free survey sites.
Sandra Hines: for the evaluation... skills in evaluating effectivly
Jodie Ingram: I haven't
Sandra Hines: I have participated in surveys with survey monkey
Jayne Germany: Just a thought--something more permanent might be needed
Sandra Hines: more permanent that survey monkey
Jayne Germany: yes
Sandra Hines: it is easy to do a form on the internet that sends to email and easily goes into a spead sheet
Jayne Germany: yep
Jodie Ingram: I need to check it out
Sandra Hines: we can also do surveys through first class..our data base manager can do wonders
Sandra Hines: so do my goals float?
Jayne Germany: we need a service like fc
Jodie Ingram: I really like your goals
Jayne Germany: Yes--I think they're well thought our
Jayne Germany: out
Sandra Hines: i love first class.. we do web pages through it.. share files.. much more
Jodie Ingram: this is my only experience with fc. I like it much better than webct
Jayne Germany: never used that
Jayne Germany: Jodie, do you have any more goals you would like to discuss?
Sandra Hines: it is a great email system with so much more from 3rd party added to it
Jodie Ingram: yes one more goal
Jayne Germany: oky
Sandra Hines: shoot
Jodie Ingram: assist mentee in developing a lesson to teach teachers strategies that use technology to achieve student centered learning
Jayne Germany: is he/she going to model student-centered learning?
Sandra Hines: do you just want to help her develop one lesson
Jodie Ingram: Jayne yes
Jodie Ingram: sandra I guess I really want to make her independent so that will need to change
Sandra Hines: I thought you probably wanted more..
Sandra Hines: how will you know when you have acheived your goal
Jodie Ingram: when she can create the sessions independently
Jayne Germany: i like it
Sandra Hines: what strategies will your teacher teach
Jodie Ingram: the strategies I come up with in goal 1
Jayne Germany: .
Sandra Hines: chuckle
Jayne Germany: Will she decide which strategies she wants to use? After you have given her some choices?
Jodie Ingram: at first we will collaborate then she will take over
Sandra Hines: sounds like a good plan
Sandra Hines: how do you feel about your goal
Jodie Ingram: REWORD: assist mentee in creating sessions to teach teachers strategies to enhance student centered learning with technology
Sandra Hines: i like it
Jayne Germany: me too
Jodie Ingram: jayne do you have another
Jayne Germany: NO--they are very similar to 1002
Jayne Germany: I mean 1001
Jodie Ingram: sandra do you have another
Sandra Hines: no.. I just had the three
Sandra Hines: do you have another
Jodie Ingram: I am through too
Jayne Germany: On another topic...
Sandra Hines: great.. it is nice to work with you two
Sandra Hines: yes
Jayne Germany: Next week we have to each take questions and reword them--I have to get it done because I have to go visit mom on the 2nd.
Sandra Hines: wow.. how do you have time to look ahead?
Jayne Germany: There are 10--do you want to go look or divide them randomly?
Jayne Germany: I have to to survive...
Jodie Ingram: divide random
Jayne Germany: Me 1-4?
Jodie Ingram: me 5-7
Sandra Hines: okay... me 8-10
Jayne Germany: Okay--great!
Jodie Ingram: anything else??
Sandra Hines: way to go on getting that covered.. thanks
Jayne Germany: I will email you my responses before I go Awol
Sandra Hines: nothing for me
Jayne Germany: See ya later!
Jodie Ingram: bye
Sandra Hines: good night ladies