Program Directors: Updates, Evaluations, and Reports
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Get insights on program director responsibilities, improvements, evaluations, and reporting requirements. Learn about contractual obligations regarding data collection, curriculum plans, and impact assessment to enhance program effectiveness.
Program Directors: Updates, Evaluations, and Reports
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Program Directors: Updates, Evaluations, and Reports
Overview of Session • Revisiting Program Director Responsibilities • Improving on STARTALK 2010 • Closing 2010 Programs and Budgets
Contractual Requirements: NFLC • NFLC Requirements concerning programs • Convene pre- and post-program conferences • Collect data on programs, outcomes, curricula, materials, and indicators of program impact • Collect end-of-program reports from awardees • Identify improvements and plan for program growth • Report to the government
Contractual Requirements: NFLC • Collection of Data • Information on programs (languages offered, grade levels, enrollments, etc.) • Curriculum plans • Participant surveys • Final reports and reflections
Contractual Requirements: Programs • Attend conferences • Develop and use curriculum templates approved by Team Leader • Collect Data • Consent forms • Registration data for student participants • Participant surveys • Program Director surveys • LinguaFolio Online in student programs, if technology is available • Materials for sharing
Contractual Requirements: Impact • Are there ways that your program has affected offerings or enrollments? • Has your program led to new approaches to teacher recruitment, training, or certification? • Are there opportunities for your program to have an influence in future? • Do you have ideas for ways in which STARTALK can have a greater impact?
Continuing to improve: Findings from 2010 • Curriculum approval • First step in QA process at STARTALK Central • Improving the process
Continuing to improve: Findings from 2010 • Participant Surveys • Response rate: 45% for teacher programssand 43% for student programs • Improving the process for 2011 • Registration Data for students
Continuing to improve: Findings from 2010 • LinguaFolio • Better communication on rationale • Improving the process
Continuing to improve: Findings from 2010 • Site Visits • Proposal ≠ Curriculum ≠ Program • Change in program goals or objectives • Change in program design, duration, instructional staff • Change in enrollment: 25% fewer or more than projected
Continuing to improve: Findings from 2010 • Use of Consultants • To provide expertise in specific content areas • But, • Lecture series ≠ effective teacher development program
Continuing to improve: Findings from 2010 • STARTALK Central will work in the next months to improve our communications, processes, and resources for our program directors and instructors