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What is Effective Dissemination? April 2009

What is Effective Dissemination? April 2009. Pandora Bedford Cynthia Cuellar Astrid Fossum Janis Freckmann Connie Laughlin. MTL Leadership Training Connections March to April. March Big Ideas Knowledge of Levels of Concern (CBAM) Addressing levels of Concern Change has to be supported

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What is Effective Dissemination? April 2009

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  1. What is Effective Dissemination?April 2009 Pandora Bedford Cynthia Cuellar Astrid Fossum Janis Freckmann Connie Laughlin This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0314898.

  2. MTL Leadership Training Connections March to April March Big Ideas • Knowledge of Levels of Concern (CBAM) • Addressing levels of Concern • Change has to be supported April Big Ideas • Working with Dissemination Strategies

  3. Goals for Today • To understand dissemination strategies • To understand all three levels of dissemination strategies for formative assessment practices.

  4. What specific actions do you take to disseminate Formative Assessment Practices in your school?

  5. Group Dissemination Discussion • Each MTL shares one strategy they do to disseminate information about formative assessment practices. • Highlight a list of words (verbs and short phrases that capture the action) MTLs used as they described their dissemination strategy. • Using the list of verbs and phrases, develop a definition of dissemination. Post definitions.

  6. Alternative Definitions of Dissemination 1. A process of communicating information to specific audiences in order to extend knowledge and practices. 2. An organized effort to convey information about practices, including knowledge from actual practice, in order to achieve similar results.

  7. Types of Dissemination Activities What questions would teachers ask you that lead to each type of dissemination strategy? (Topic is WALT..)

  8. Dissemination Continuum SpreadExchange Implementation

  9. Strategies for Overcoming Obstacles to Promote Formative Assessment Strategies

  10. Strategies for Overcoming Obstacles to Promote Formative Assessment Strategies

  11. Closure….. Goals • To identify outcomes of dissemination strategies • To understand all three levels of dissemination strategies for formative assessment practices. Reflection • The most important thing I need to do to improve my dissemination effectiveness is ……

  12. Extra slides – we will probably not use!!!

  13. Outcomes of Dissemination • Increased Knowledge (K) • Changed Individual Practice (I) • Changed systems, cultures, organizational structures (S)

  14. Teachers as Learners …. According to constructivism, “the user” acts upon information by relating it to existing knowledge, imposing meaning and organization on experiences, and in many cases, monitoring understanding throughout the process. The “user” becomes an active problem solver rather than a receptacle of information.

  15. Matching Dissemination with Outcomes • Look for a mismatch between dissemination strategy and outcome for the strategy. • Brainstorm new dissemination strategies to match the intended outcome. • Share table examples.

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