Synthesis of Assessments Professional Dev

Synthesis of the Professional Development Workshop * *For use only by project participants Not for promotional or other commercial uses Assembled by Richard Statler Introduction On August 19th, 2003, Pacific Crest facilitated a professional development workshop held at the University of Idaho in Moscow This workshop was funded by the ELE project at UI under the NSF Additional funding came from the Colleges of Engineering at UI The workshop was organized by Steven Beyerlein and facilitated by Dan Apple, President of Pacific Crest The purpose of this document is to summarize assessment of the workshop Note: this document is a draft intended for communication—it is not intended to be a highly polished document Faculty members and students from UI and WSU attended this interdisciplinary workshop The workshop had three primary objectives: • • • Review and make suggestions for improving a first draft of the Teacher's Assessment Journal, responding to needs expressed by 2003 Teaching Institute participants for tools to document and expand skills in teaching/learning Gain experience writing individualized performance criteria that provide a framework for assessing personal effectiveness and planning future professional activities Become familiar with steps required to generate an annual assessment report that can enrich discussion surrounding annual employment reviews Methods • • • Participants who had attended the workshop filled out an assessment form at the conclusion The number of assessment forms filled out was 19 Quantitative data from the assessment form was gathered into Excel and averaged Qualitative data from the assessment form was reviewed and paraphrased Results Quantitative Evaluation: (1-10, 10 being high) How Valuable was the workshop? 8.2 The degree to which your goals/expectations for the workshop were met 8.2 How much did you learn about the faculty planning process? 8.6 The effectiveness of the facilitator 8.1 The effectiveness of the workshop material 7.4 Level of interest in attending addition workshops 8.6 Qualitative Assessment: • Strengths i ii iii iv v • Negotiating the outcomes and bringing the closure to the outcomes The natural flow of the ending of the event didn’t feel right The synthesizing of the outcomes and reviewing these outcomes The production of a template for future use by the participants This is the heart of what most were seeking – structure, direction, and some means of monitoring their effort over the year Denny’s suggestion is why it came about Ability to draw us into deeper commitment by drawing off of interests shared, by offering support, and it provided the means for continual growth Constant inquiry about individuals, their needs, interests, and passions can give strong prompts of how to then challenge, support, and monitor the advancement of the particular areas by connecting and bringing meaning to their use of that prompt area Getting participants strongly engaged in a set of resources By offering the role of assessor where their job is to improve the product, they not take the role of skeptic, but start analyzing so they can improve it leaves them more vulnerable to being open thus leading to more ownership and commitment to the resources the ongoing process Looking at a table of contents was critical to provide framework Participants were strongly engaged in the teacher portfolio Leverage off a single participants strong learning need that put many of the community in a helpful constructive consulting role that cause people to more analysis and reflection of their own current practices Areas for improvements i Use more visual representations of ideas and things to help people both access and provide framework for other additions refinements Carefully think through how and what means to provide the visual ii Teacher’s Assessment Journal – map of the Journal so that the connectiveness of the journal to the faculty performance iii Alignment to a longer term growth and deliverables – bringing more continuity and - There is presented an agenda not an offering = inventory the deliverables as they are being developed: i Community of mentors working on mentoring, including a focus group who is interested in the research of mentoring and support the advancement of mentoring ii Mentoring Handbook for Publication iii Community of faculty/administrators who are willing to be coached on implementing a more structured and defined professional development and assessment process iv We created a visual representation of mentoring for shared understanding v Initiative of building a research program in instructional design vi Rubrics for mentoring and measuring level of success of the mentoring experience iv Insights i Processes discussed here are time intrusive, but seem to have worth while pay of ii Each additional workshop I attend produces incremental understanding iii I left with solid goals I feel I can chart my trajectory and growth iv Many of us have the tools and idea;, we just need to apply them v I need to narrow my focus about performance criteria and that will help me not only identify what I do, but how I it vi Accountability is essential Participants (19) of the 2003 Professional Development Workshop: Name DANIEL APPLE ALEX KORZYK ANNA HENSON BARBARA C WILLIAMS CHONG LENG TAN email Dan@pcrest.com alexk@uidaho.edu University Pacific Crest University of Idaho University of Idaho barbwill@uidaho.edu University of Idaho cltan@uidaho.edu University of Idaho LINDA MORRIS cord4530@uidaho.e du ljmorris@uidaho.edu DENNY DAVIS davis@wsu.edu DONALD ELGER HERB HESS delger@uidaho.edu hhess@uidaho.edu JENNI LIGHT jlight@wsu.edu KARI GALLOWAY karig@uidaho.edu DAN CORDON University of Idaho University of Idaho Washington State University University of Idaho University of Idaho Washington State University University of Idaho Department N/A Business ME Bio and Ag Engineering Phone 800-421-9826 885-5958 885-2551 Business 882-6854 Mechanical Engineering Business 885-9436 208-885-7948 885-7159 Bioengineering 509-335-7993 ME ECE 885-7889 89-1679 Civil eng 509-335-6239 Dean of StudentsWomen's Center 885-6616 KEN NOREN knoren@uidaho.edu rbudwig@uidaho.ed u stat5166@uidaho.ed u zimm2280@uidaho edu University of Idaho ECE 209-0405 University of Idaho M.E 885-6579 University of Idaho ME 208-885-2551 sbeyer@uidaho.edu University of Idaho HOWARD PEAVY howardp@uidaho.ed u University of Idaho TRIS UTSCHIG ttutschig@lcsc.edu Other RALPH BUDWIG RICHARD STATLER SAM ZIMMERMAN STEVE BEYERLEIN University of Idaho Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Engineering Engr, Physics, Nat Sci 170-5805 885-4932 (208) 885-6479 208-798-7818 ... flow of the ending of the event didn’t feel right The synthesizing of the outcomes and reviewing these outcomes The production of a template for future use by the participants This is the heart of. .. advancement of mentoring ii Mentoring Handbook for Publication iii Community of faculty/administrators who are willing to be coached on implementing a more structured and defined professional development... karig@uidaho.edu DAN CORDON University of Idaho University of Idaho Washington State University University of Idaho University of Idaho Washington State University University of Idaho Department N/A Business