Professional Development Resources

• Web Primer

• Educators Provide Innovative Instruction Using Windows Media

• The Power Tools

• e-Learning Guru - packed with "how to" articles, templates and calculators in the tool box, dozens of white papers, time saving book summaries and links to the best sites on the net.

• Professional Development Action Planner - The success of a professional development program lies in the content of professional development (PD), the process used to create and implement PD, and the staff and students’ learning results. The linkage of content and process is inherent in determining PD’s level of impact on student learning. Staff and students’ learning results should show a strong bond between professional development and school performance. When implemented effectively, professional development contributes to enhanced school performance.

• National Staff Development Council 

• Technology and Learning - Online Professional Development Sources

• Innovative Teachers - Linking Professional Development to Learning - Microsoft Innovative Teachers is a program within the Microsoft Educator Network designed specifically to meet the professional development needs of teachers.

• Building from Within: Two Professional Development Models That Work

• LEARN NC - LEARN North Carolina, a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education, provides a collection of resources for classroom teaching and learning and for professional development. The Beacon (an online magazine) offers a variety of interesting articles about education success stories and strategies for better teaching and staff development.

• Staff Development for Curriculum / Technology Integration
• School Renewal Online
• Sabine Distance Learning Resources
• MarcoPolo
• PRAXIS - Professional Assessments for Beginning Teachers
• ThinkQuest - Region VI Calendar
• Designing Online Staff Development
• Ed Tech journals - Online teacher PD has been covered in journals over the past year as the focus, need, and delivery mechanisms have emerged .
  • Electronic School
  • Technology and Learning
  • Curriculum Administrator
  • Converge
• National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
• Qarbon Viewlets
• International Society for Technology in EducationElectronic School
• Apple Computer Inc.
• Electronic School - Articles related to Online PD
• TOPS - online professional development program for science teachers
• One-Computer Classroom - Thanks to Janine Scott of University of Southern Mississippi for compiling this hotlist (made with Filamentality) for ideas for the one-computer classroom. This is a great resource to kick off a staff  development period, with small groups exploring each site to come up with creative ideas for using computers in education. 
• Curriculum Administrator February 2001 Issue - Professional Development in a High-Tech World and Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks
• OKRSI - The Oklahoma Rural Systemic Initiative (OKRSI) is a comprehensive program designed to produce systemic reform in standards based mathematics, science and technology education.
• Professional Development: Learning From the Best - (NCREL) A Toolkit for Schools and Districts Based on the National Awards Program for Model Professional Development
• NSU Blue Ribbon PK-16 Council - Blue Ribbon Commission -  State of Louisiana
• Tech Guides and Tutorials for Sabine Teachers  (Password required)
• Distance Learning Resources
• Regional Educational Research and PD resources
• Reports indicating need for Technology Professional Development
• Plano District Technology Professional Development Online Course Descriptions
• PBS TeacherLine - TeacherLine is a comprehensive, professional development Web site designed for college instructors, K-12 teachers, and future teachers. TeacherLine is designed as a source for content, community and collaboration. At the heart of TeacherLine, is a series of modules produced by leading educators, education institutions and companies. The modules guide educators toward integrating technology into their learning and teaching. The modules also can be used to earn certificates based on national and state technology standards.
• New NSBA Education Technology Online Course - Register today for the National School Boards Association's newest online course from its ITTE: Education Technology Programs ? Grappling with Accountability: Resource Tools for Organizing and Assessing Technology for Student Results, January 9 - February 6, 2001.  
• CONCEPT TO CLASSROOM - "Interdisciplinary Learning in Your Classroom" has launched! Participate in this free professional development workshop where you can learn about the history of interdisciplinary learning, view examples of it in action, and engage in a seven-step process for designing an interdisciplinary unit. Also, check out our out our entire series Concept to Classroom that addresses a variety of current topics in education. This series is a wNetSchool collaboration with Disney Learning Partnership.
• After School Online (ASO) at TAPPED IN, is a forum for educators. The scheduled events, designed for professional development, are open to everyone in the TAPPED IN community and all guests. If you are new to TAPPED IN, please login 10 minutes before the ASO event is scheduled to begin. This will allow us to get you where you need to be.  A monthly view and description of the events is online at our Time-Zone Friendly Calendar
• The Atomic Learning Library is another online professional development site for teachers.
• ONLINE COURSES - Register for the Winter session of Internet in Action -- New York. This dynamic six-week online course is specifically designed to help K-12 teachers become fluent in Internet use, and comfortable with its integration into the curriculum. Study options include graduate and professional development credit. We are now offering group discounts for educators from the same school. This course is made possible by Verizon. 
• EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING - Thirteen's Educational Publishing Department has produced a series of lesson plans to accompany the 6-part series TRIUMPH OF LIFE. This look at the evolution of life on the planet will premiere on January 14th and run weekly. You can access the lessons on the NATURE Website.
• Toolkit for Improving Professional Development written by Emily Hassle (Public Impact)
• Report, "Does Professional Development Change Teaching Practice?"
• InTech - A Framework for INtegrating TECHnology in the Student-Centered Classroom
• Pathways to School Improvement - Critical Issues in Professional Development
• Inside TECHNOLOGY TRAINING

• The Knowledge Loom  If your school or district is creating a new staff development plan to support student learning goals, check out the Knowledge Loom. The current spotlight is on Staff Development, examining different ways to create staff development plans and implement those plans. Topics such as Early Literacy and Equity will be added soon. Grade Level: Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle School, High School Content Area: Education 

• Education with New Technologies: Networked Learning Community - Developed by teachers and researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, this site explores issues of improving teaching with technology integration, integrating new tools with classroom practice and curriculum, and collaboration with colleagues locally and around the world.
• Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology - PREPARING TOMORROW'S TEACHERS TO USE TECHNOLOGY, a program to help ensure that tomorrow's teachers are prepared to integrate technology effectively into the curriculum & use the new teaching & learning styles enabled by technology. 
• Classroom management
• Achieving the Goals - Goal 4: Teacher Professional Development U.S. Department of Education
• National Staff Development Council
• Technology @ Your Fingertips
• Curriculum Administrator
• NETWORKING AND LEARNING VIA EDUCATIONAL LISTSERVS - Discuss your educational interests with colleagues through moderated listservs--and there are hundreds. Go to  http://www.egroups.com/ for many listservs in education that you can subscribe to through e-mail. You can even start your own listserv. For example, the Distance Learning listservs on Onelist.com are moderated by a contributor to this bulletin, Arun Tripathi. E-mail Arun (edresouce-owner@makelist.com or tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de) for more information. ASCD also offers online communication opportunities through its forums, available at http://www.ascd.org. Topics include block scheduling, democratic school, violence prevention, arts  education, problem based learning, integrating technology in the elementary classroom, and more.
• Finding Time for Professional Development
• Faculty Technology Development
• Preparing Teachers to effectively Implement Technology
• ED's Oasis' Lesson Evaluation Rubric
• ED's Oasis' ONLINE INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCE EVALUATION GUIDELINES
• A Practical Journal of Multimedia, CD-ROM, Online, and Internet in K-12
• USING COMPUTERS ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES - *Math and Science* Interested in seeing how teachers have integrated technology into math and science curriculums? Take a look at *Tales from the Electronic Frontier*, an account of 10 teachers' classroom experiences with the Internet in K-12 science and math classes. The educators' lively, colorful reports are complemented by a useful sidebar with links to Web sites addressing technology issues, tools, resources, and projects. Along the same lines, the "Projects" link on the Computing Across the Primary Curriculum site shows you how primary schoolteachers have introduced young learners to software projects, from "Introduction to Spreadsheets for Grade 3" to "Multimedia Using *Kid Pix Studio*."  *Social Sciences and the Arts* If you're a social studies educator and you'd like your students to use the Internet for classroom projects or independent research, you can point them to the *CSS (Computers in the Social Studies) Journal* . There they'll find a comprehensive index of 17 topics in the social sciences, with multiple links to related Web sites, from Paleolithic painted caves, to forensic psychology, to the Israeli Knesset. If you teach visual or language arts, you can explore intriguing lesson plans, curriculum ideas, online discussion groups, and gallery images in the interactive ArtsEdNet site. While you're there, take a virtual walk with your students through ancient Greece or Rome in the imaginative "Philosophers Forum: Asking Big Questions About Art."

MarcoPolo Professional Development Program

As the MarcoPolo Professional Development Program strives to reach every teacher in every classroom in the country, we are looking for input from those responsible for providing teachers professional development within schools--principals and administrators. The MarcoPolo Professional Development Program may soon be available at the school building level. Principals and administrators can offer us invaluable information by taking a few moments to let us know about their interest in bringing this free training into their school. Responses to a short survey will help us to design the program to meet the needs of schools. If you are a principal or administrator, please use this link to get to the online survey: http://marcopolo.worldcom.com/Forms/TeacherTrainingInterest/ttiform.cfm. If you are not, please pass this message along to a principal or administrator, so that we can build the best Professional Development Program possible. In return for the input, we will send respondents copies of our Teacher's Guides, which walk elementary and secondary educators through the rich resources of the MarcoPolo sites, and a colorful MarcoPolo classroom poster. 

The MarcoPolo Professional Development Program is offered free of charge to educators around the country through agreements with state and district education agencies. MarcoPoloworkshops are offered on-site and are designed to build educators' skills and comfort levels with using the Internet and the content it offers in the classroom. Workshops are based on high quality, standards-based content provided free of charge through the MarcoPolo and six partner web sites. For more information on the MarcoPolo program, please go to http://marcopolo.wcom.com.