Staff Development Reading Resources

Theory

Pre-Assessment

Adult Learner

Curricular Considerations

Process of Design

Evaluation

Total Guides

Participants should read additional articles depending on their role as change agent. What you suggest may be dependent on the real-time electronic discussions. The discussions should reveal the participant's need for clarity or more knowledge. Let their questions and reflections be your guiding light. All participants should read the hard copies of the articles supplied with the course.

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.
*indicates hard copy sent to participants  
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