Staff Development Reading Resources

Theory

Pre-Assessment

Adult Learner

Curricular Considerations

Process of Design

Evaluation

Total Guides

Theory

  1. Guiding Questions for Technology Planning [NCRTEC]
  2. Five Phases of Professional Development [NCREL]
  3. Technology Literacy and Recruitment [FNO]*
  4. Educate America - In-Service Preparation and Development [NWREL]

Pre-Assessment

  1. Assessing Staff Technology Competence  [FNO]*
  2. Adult and Teenage Consumer Users of Technology: Potholes on the Information Superhighway? [CA State U]

Adult Learner

  1. The "Psychology" of Technology  [CA State U]
  2. Barriers to New Technologies - Part One: Skill Fixation in Staff [FNO]
  3. Technology Refusal: A Reprise [FNO]
  4. Teflon Learning [FNO]
  5. Critical Issue: Finding Time for Professional Development [NCREL]

Curricular Considerations

  1. THE NEXT STEP: Now that schools have technology, it's time to let the technology transform schooling [Electronic School]*
  2. Critical Issue: Realizing New Learning for All Students through Professional Development [NCREL]
  3. Shifting the Comfort Zone: Staff Development to Counter Technology Refusal [FNO]
  4. Crossing the Great Divide: Adult Learning for Integrative and Innovative Use of Technologies with Students [FNO]
  5. The WIRED Classroom [FNO]*

Design

  1. Teaching Teachers to Use Telecomputing Tools [UIUC]
  2. Barriers to New Technologies, Part Two: Skill Fixation in Staff [FNO]
  3. Designing Staff Development for the Information Age [FNO]
  4. The Relationship between Technological Innovation and Collegial Interaction [ACOT]
  5. Creating an Alternative Context for Teacher Development: ACOT's Two-Year Pilot Project [ACOT]
  6. Creating an Alternative Context for Teacher Development: The ACOT Teacher Development Centers [ACOT]

Evaluation

  1. Critical Issue: Evaluating Professional Growth and Development [NCREL]
  2. Developing a School or District Technology Plan  [NCREL]
  3. Integrating Technology into Classroom Instruction: An Assessment of the Impact of the ACOT Teacher Development Center Project [ACOT]

Total Guides

  1. Computer Technology and Professional Development: Suggestions for Schools [NFIE]
  2. FNO: From Now On, this is jamie Mckenzie's web site.
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