Staff Development

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Staff Development

• EDAD 5399
• By
• Dr. Harold Smith

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Texas Education Code 21.451

• Who is responsible?
• What must be taught?
• Who must attend?
• Purposes
• What setting for staff development?
• Special Programs?
• Must attendees sign in?
• How many days are required by TEA?

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Texas Education Code 21.451

• Who is responsible for campus staff development?
• Campus Team
• Principal
• How are topics selected?

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Texas Education Code 21.451

• What topics will be addressed?
• AEIS report
• ATP report
• Campus Improvement Plan
• Budget
• The SBDM is required to sign off on staff
  development.

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Texas Education Code 21.451

• Staff development may include
• Training in Technology
• Conflict Resolution
• Discipline Strategies
• Classroom Management
• Student Code of Conduct
• Classroom Instruction

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Texas Education Code 21.451

• Specific topics addressed in the Campus
  Improvement Plan.
• District Requirements
• Legal Issues
• School Safety
• Parent Involvement
• (One 1 of your students will see a adult male
  read this month)

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Texas Education Code 21.451

• Laws and Procedures for Special Programs
• Data interpretation
• Teaching Strategies
• Religious Rights
• Civil Rights
• Health Issues

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Texas Education Code 21.451

• Purposes of Staff Development
• Enhance Skills
• Share Effective Strategies
• Reflect on Curricular and Instructional Issues
• Analyze Student Achievement Results
• Reflect on Means of Increasing Student
  Achievement
• Study Research

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Texas Education Code 21.451

• Purposes continued
• Practice New Methods of Instructions
• Identify Students Strengths and Weaknesses
• Develop Meaningful Programs for Students
• Discuss Research
• Plan Research

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Texas Education Code 21.451

• Methods
• Study Teams
• Individual Research
• Peer Coaching
• Workshops
• Seminars
• Conferences
• Book Studies
• College Courses

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Texas Education Code 21.451

• Models
• Individual Guided Model
• Observation/Assessment Model
• Development/Improvement Model
• Inquiry Model
• Training Model
• Other Models Meeting Local Needs

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Texas Education Code 21.451

• Special Program Requirements
• Title I Staff Development
• Parent Involvement Programs
• Improve Student Performance
• Basic Legal Requirements
• Special Budget

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Texas Education Code 21.451

• Gifted and Talented Continued
• Teachers who provide instruction and services to
  gifted student must receive 6 hours of staff
  development annually
• Administrators and Counselors who have authority
  for program decisions must have 6 hours of staff
  development.

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Texas Education Code 21.451

• Special Programs Continued
• Gifted and Talented Education
• Teacher must have completed 30 hours of staff
  development before working with GT students in a
  special setting.
• Assessing student needs, curriculum and
  instruction.
• Teacher does not have 30 hours?----
• Must be completed within one semester.

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Texas Education Code 21.451

• Who Must Attend Staff Development?
• The Code does not name positions. But the
  district may designate who must attend.
• Some special programs tell who must attend
• New teaching certificates and principal
  certificates require hours to be earned.

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Texas Education Code 21.451

• Special Programs Continued
• Special Education
• Training that relates to instruction of students
  with disabilities and is designed for educators
  who work primarily outside the area of special
  education.
• What do you do with a Modification Sheet?
• How do I adjust my instruction to meet the needs
  of the students in my class?
• What test will I give my students?

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Texas Education Code 21.451

• The Local Education Agency may set additional
  staff development requirements for all employees.

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Texas Education Code 21.451

• Adult Education
• Could Include Alternative High Schools
• Staff Hired after September 1, 1996 shall receive
  12 hours of staff development annually.
• Staff members new to adult education must receive
  6 hours before working with students.

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Texas Education Code 21.451

• In-service for professional development may be
  reduced in individual cases if documentation of
  exceptional circumstances is submitted to TEA for
  approval.
• Records of professional development shall be
  maintained by the district.

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Texas Education Code 21.451

• Teachers must earn 150 approved hours of training
  each five years to renew their certificate.
• All other professionals must earn 200 hours each
  five years.
• Other professionals, principals, counselors,
  superintendents, librarians, master teachers,
  diagnosticians

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• Must I earn 150 hours to keep my teacher
  certificate and 200 hours to keep my principal
  certificate?
• Do I have to earn 150 hours for each teaching
  certificate?
• www.sbec.texas.state.us.tx
• Certificate information-left menu
• Certificate Renewal Requirements.

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• Can a district require employees to attend staff
  development?
• How can that be enforced.
• Can staff development hours count toward renewal
  of certification?

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Warning

• Have legal department check contract before
  signing.
• Does district have a standard contract?
• Know what will be presented.
• Is the presentation consistent with district
  requirements?
• Agree on time limits before beginning.

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Sources

• Local curriculum staff
• State conferences
• Universities
• Service Centers
• Professional associations
• TEA
• Some of these groups have presentations that can
  be downloaded.

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Resistance to Change

• 1. Why change?
• 2. What will it cost me?
• 3. Will change create more work for me?
• 4. Who is making us do this?
• 5. What is wrong with what we are doing?
• 6. Are other schools changing?

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Change Principles

• 1. People dont change unless they share a
  compelling reason to change.
• 2. People dont change unless they have
  ownership in the change.
• 3. People dont change unless their leaders
  model that they are serious about the change.

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Change Principles

• 4. People are unlikely to change unless they
  have a concrete picture of what the change will
  look like for them personally.
• 5. People cant make a changeor make it
  lastunless they receive organizational support
  for the change.

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Why Do Changes Not Happen?

• 1. Too many topics are presented.
• 2. No support for change.
• 3. No follow up activities.
• 4. Funding.
• 5. The leadership does not support change.
• 6. You changeI dont need to change.

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Why Do Changes Not Happen?

• 7. Attempt to move too fast.
• 8. Lack of direction.
• 9. Change takes us from our comfort zone.

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Assume-Dont Assume

• 1. Do not assume that your vision of what the
  change should be is the one that should or could
  be implemented.
• 2. Assume that any significant innovation
  requires individual implementers to work out
  their own meaning

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• 3. Assume that conflict and disagreement are not
  only inevitable but fundamental to successful
  change.
• 4. Assume that people need pressure to change
  but it will be effective only under conditions
  that allow them to react.

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• 5. Assume that effective change takes time.
• 6. Do not assume that the reason for lack of
  implementation is outright rejection of the
  values embodied in the change, or hard-core
  resistance to all change.

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• 7. Do not expect all or even most people or
  groups to change.
• 8. Assume that you will need a plan that is
  based on the above assumptions and that address
  the factors known to affect implementation.

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• 9. Assume that no amount of knowledge will ever
  make it totally clear what action should be
  taken.
• 10. Assume that changing the culture of
  institutions is the real agenda, not implementing
  single innovations.

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Change Process

• You cant mandate what matters
• Change is a journey, not a blueprint
• Problems are our friends

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• Vision and strategic planning come later
• Individualism and collectivism must have equal
  power
• Neither centralization or decentralization works