Our office is set-up perfectly for collaboration with SIM™
Professional Developers. We currently
have 1 certified in Learning Strategies, and we have 4 dually certified for
collaboration. We meet regularly to
discuss upcoming professional developments, and we provide professional
developments and coaching with sites in teams of two. Providing professional development and
coaching in a team has allowed for feedback and growth with our delivery. In addition to our office set-up, we meet as
a state with other professional developers in Virginia. These meetings are invaluable to us as
professional developers. We network with
one another and share and expand on any ideas posed. We have Dropbox and Google Drive accounts
set-up, so we can invite and share our resources developed for any Learning
Strategy or Content Enhancement Routine Professional Development. These resources are also inquired for and
shared via email.
Besides collaborating with other professional developers both within our state and nationally, I have worked with colleagues to customize our presentations and resources to meet the needs of the teachers and their students. This has truly grown over the years and made it easier to get buy-in from those implementing. Such growth has come with making resources available for use with their Smartboards and Promethean Boards, as well as making blackline masters of student samples.
We have also collaborated, planned for, and presented in teams at the following: More SIM™ and SIM Share Fare held December 1-3, 2009, JMU CLC™ 2010 Summer Academy (resources and agenda provided in link below), provided a poster session at the International SIM Conference held in July 2012 (picture of session from program provided in link below), in Lawrence, KS, and Virginia PPDI Summit held in our T/TAC at VT office (copy of flyer provided in link below).
Furthermore, I have been mentoring Erinn Green who is currently working for the Virginia Department of Education T/TAC @ Virginia Commonwealth University. She is finishing up her apprentice year, and she is currently loading her documentation into the badging system to become a certified professional developer in Content Enhancement Routines. I have included documents and a picture of my mentorship with her within the link provided below. I have also assisted with helping potential professional developers with creating presentations and answering their questions required for year 2 of their apprenticeship. A picture of a group I worked with is provided in the link below.
I actively peruse the KU Center for Research on Learning website for updated information and resources that I can utilize during any of my upcoming professional development or coaching visits with schools. This site has been valuable to me for locating materials that I could have easily misplaced if they were a paper copy. Additionally, I read all questions and updates through the SIM™ Network via email. This network has provided me with great ideas to use, as well as with information regarding any new strategies or routines being published. In return, if I have information to provide to a network member regarding a question he or she has posed, I email them directly with what I have to offer. A sample response to a question posed on the SIM Network has been provided in the link listed below.
Link to documents mentioned in paragraphs 3, 4, & 5:
https://drive.google.com/a/vt.edu/folderview?id=0B4lEgx9hs7rHZ3RSSi1RUEFNajg&usp=sharing
Besides collaborating with other professional developers both within our state and nationally, I have worked with colleagues to customize our presentations and resources to meet the needs of the teachers and their students. This has truly grown over the years and made it easier to get buy-in from those implementing. Such growth has come with making resources available for use with their Smartboards and Promethean Boards, as well as making blackline masters of student samples.
We have also collaborated, planned for, and presented in teams at the following: More SIM™ and SIM Share Fare held December 1-3, 2009, JMU CLC™ 2010 Summer Academy (resources and agenda provided in link below), provided a poster session at the International SIM Conference held in July 2012 (picture of session from program provided in link below), in Lawrence, KS, and Virginia PPDI Summit held in our T/TAC at VT office (copy of flyer provided in link below).
Furthermore, I have been mentoring Erinn Green who is currently working for the Virginia Department of Education T/TAC @ Virginia Commonwealth University. She is finishing up her apprentice year, and she is currently loading her documentation into the badging system to become a certified professional developer in Content Enhancement Routines. I have included documents and a picture of my mentorship with her within the link provided below. I have also assisted with helping potential professional developers with creating presentations and answering their questions required for year 2 of their apprenticeship. A picture of a group I worked with is provided in the link below.
I actively peruse the KU Center for Research on Learning website for updated information and resources that I can utilize during any of my upcoming professional development or coaching visits with schools. This site has been valuable to me for locating materials that I could have easily misplaced if they were a paper copy. Additionally, I read all questions and updates through the SIM™ Network via email. This network has provided me with great ideas to use, as well as with information regarding any new strategies or routines being published. In return, if I have information to provide to a network member regarding a question he or she has posed, I email them directly with what I have to offer. A sample response to a question posed on the SIM Network has been provided in the link listed below.
Link to documents mentioned in paragraphs 3, 4, & 5:
https://drive.google.com/a/vt.edu/folderview?id=0B4lEgx9hs7rHZ3RSSi1RUEFNajg&usp=sharing