Enhancing Teacher Effectiveness Through Local Collaboration for Professional Development
This presentation, featuring experts from Coastal Georgia, focuses on the collaborative efforts between local colleges and the GLRS to enhance teacher training and support. Using a backwards chaining approach, it emphasizes proactive strategies, mutual goal setting, and resource sharing to improve the training of pre-service teachers and support for students with disabilities (SWD). The session discusses achieving academic success, graduation rates, and post-secondary transitions while fostering a commitment to excellence and continuous learning among educators.
Enhancing Teacher Effectiveness Through Local Collaboration for Professional Development
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Presentation Transcript
Experts in Your Own Backyard: Collaborating with Local Colleges and Universities for Professional Development- One Region’s Story
Presenters • Dr. Charity Roberts, Coastal GLRS Director • Dr. Michael Hazelkorn, Dean, CCGA • Dr. Claire Hughes, Assoc. Prof. CCGA
Backwards Chaining Approach • Moving from reactive to proactive • Leveraged panic • Establishing accountable goals
Backwards Chaining Approach • Determining organizational goals • Evaluating alignment between goals • “Give and Get”- Mutually beneficial resource sharing • Evaluation of activities
CCGA Goals • Development of pre-service teacher programs • Implementation of pre-service teacher training • Evaluation of pre-service teacher training • Support of graduates to ensure effectiveness
GLRS Goals • Support School Staff & Parents of SWD • Provide professional learning, coaching, & technical assistance • Deliver training & provide programs • Support academic achievement, graduation rate, & post-secondary success
Meeting of the Minds • GOAL #1 • Build Relationships & Partnerships • New GLRS Director • New COE Dean • Shared personal vision for our programs. • Offered support & resources to meet each other’s needs.
What’s the Bottom Line? • ALL teacher graduates must demonstrate effectiveness with student instruction • ALL students with disabilities must demonstrate success with academics, graduation, & post-secondary transition
COMMITMENT to EXCELLENCE • MUTUAL GOALS • Graduate highly effective teachers • Confident in knowledge & expertise • Support SWD (& at-risk) in ALL environments • Encourage continuous learning by CCGA graduates • Transition graduates from CCGA to GLRS for professional learning to support SWD
Building Strong Support Systems • How can GLRS support Coastal College • develop strong teacher candidates • prepare ALL teachers to support SWD • What resources does GLRS have available • directly impact new teachers’ success in the field?
Trends & Issues • How can GLRS • support & sustain teacher retention in special education? • make connections at an early stage to increase teacher active engagement with our resources? • provide early access to instruction for pre-service teachers?
One Story in Progress • Professional Learning Gold Mines • GLRS approached CCGA staff to instruct workshops for teachers in-field • Co-Teaching Expert • In-progress project to provide regional professional learning in this topic
Another Story in Progress • Professional Resource Gold Mine • Instructional Resource Center • Pre-Service Teachers • Large district teaching staff • Provide books, instructional materials, and technology access • e-Book accounts • Materials Check-out • Assistive Technology • Apps • Computers • iPads • Chromebooks
Non-overlapping NeedsYou help me, I’ll help you… We’re all in this together… • Performance Indicators- Coastal GLRS • Evaluation- CCGA
Collaboration Plan-Overlapping • Services to the Community/ Implementation of Pre-service Teacher Training • Patron Accounts • Information about Hinesville Center • Information about Center materials • Proposal for IRC at CCGA • E-book access • Book & materials checkout
Collaboration Plan-Overlapping • Capacity Building/ Development of Pre-Service Teacher Training • TEAB participation • Capacity Building/ Implementation of Pre-Service Teacher Training • Communication of Online teacher training • Math training for CCGA
Collaboration Plan-Overlapping • Consortia/ Support of Graduates • New Teacher Cohort model
Collaboration Plan- Mutually Beneficial • Performance Indicators- Coastal GLRS • College Expert Training • Autism • Co-Teaching • Behavior • ELA & Math • Evaluation- CCGA • CAEP Participation
Collaboration Expansion • Regional • Coastal GLRS with Georgia Southern & Armstrong Atlantic • State • All GLRS centers with regional teacher prep colleges
Desired Results Conclusions • Evolving Collaboration • Mission-driven Process • Relationship-driven Foundation • Effective Teachers • Outcomes for SWD • Academic Achievement • Graduate • Post-Secondary Success
