Creating+PD+Sessions

== =Creating PD Sessions: Where the Rubber Meets the Road=

Overview
In this culminating session, you will be creating PD experiences that you can take back to your school or district to meet the professional development needs of your faculty and staff. After going to the location indicated in the table below, the lead facilitator and other team members will guide you through the process of developing the PD session. The final deliverable will be a PD experience that is based upon the rubric on this wiki page. If you do not complete your PD experience at the institute, you may need to complete it upon returning to your school/district.

Groupings
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 * **Location**
 * Nortel A

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 * Nortel B

Team: Cathy Mathews Amber Godfrey fffffff || Asheville/SILSA Asheboro @Perquimans AL Brown Pamlico || ffffffffffffffff || Anthony Dove (Lead) Melanie Honeycutt
 * BB&T

Team: Julian Nichols Kelly Brannock fffffffffffff || McDowell Scotland Jones Beaufort Weldon City Rowan-Salisbury || ffffffffffffffyyyyyyyyff || Jonathan List (Lead) Lizzie Halstead
 * Wachovia

Team: Cynthia Sartain || Watauga Surry Mitchell Granville Vance ||

Objectives

 * Develop a PD experience based upon the PD needs of your school/district
 * Analyze your PD experience based upon the PD rubric
 * Share and provide feedback about the PD experiences developed at the Institute
 * Conduct the PD experience at your school and write blog entry on the NC 1:1 NING

Part 1

 * Get into school/district groups and decide on what PD experience(s) you will create and what platform you will use to deliver it from**

A. Gather as a group with the other attendees from your school or district. Decide whether you will work as individuals or with someone else (1 other person) from your school/district. B. Next, decide what PD experience(s) you will develop for your school/district. Consider the PD needs of your school or district (what data or feedback have you received from the staff?) We suggest that you choose a tool or session topic that has been introduced at the Institute as your focus. C. Determine what platform you will use to deliver your PD experience? For example, you might use a Google Doc or a wiki. You may not use PowerPoint as a platform for delivery.

Part 2

 * Begin developing the PD experience by looking at the model PD sessions from this institute.**

After choosing a platform, use the following @PD TEMPLATE for the development of your PD experience.


 * PD experiences should:**
 * address a known PD need within your school or district.
 * be based on a Web 2.0 platform such as Wikispaces or Google Docs.
 * be designed to be completed in roughly 1 hour with a follow-up homework assignment.
 * contain varying instructional strategies/activities (video, images, screencasts, etc.)
 * show attention to differentiation (meeting the needs of a variety of skill levels
 * show an attention to instructional design.
 * contain a plan for evaluation or follow-up.
 * be able to be archived so that staff can re-visit the material as a resource.


 * PD Experience Rubric**

Use the following guidelines to help you create your PD experience. ffff || **Meets Expectations** || **Does Not Meet Expectations** || fff || ff || fff || ff || ff ||
 * **Characteristics of PD Experience**
 * < **Platform** || Platform is appropriate for delivery and sharing as a future resource || Platform is not appropriate for delivery and sharing as a future resource. No PowerPoint.
 * < **Topic** || The PD experience is designed to address a known PD need within your school or district. || The PD experience is not designed to address a known PD need within your school or district. ||
 * < **Objectives and Goals** || Objectives and goals are clearly stated for the PD experience || Objectives and goals are vague
 * < **Instructional Strategies** || Instructional strategies and activities are appropriate and varied throughout the PD experience || There are few instructional strategies integrated into the PD experience and the activities are not varied within the PD experience
 * < **Instructional Design** || The PD experience shows attention to instructional design and the flow and sequence are easy to follow || The PD experience shows a lack of knowledge of instructional design and the flow and sequence make it difficult for the learner to follow
 * < **Differentiation** || The PD experience is designed for a variety of skill levels and contains differentiated instruction || The PD experience does not contain differentiated instruction or will not be able to meet the needs of a variety of skill levels as designed
 * < **Evaluation and Follow-Up** || Formative evaluation (check points) are integrated into the PD experience and the experience contains a follow-up plan. || No formative evaluation is integrated into the PD experience and the experience does not contain a homework assignment or follow-up plan. ||

ITF and MC PD Sessions
When you have almost completed or completed your PD experience, enter the information into the Google form below by clicking on the link: Enter your information and the link to your PD Experience here.

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[|Link to Spreadsheet with all PD Experiences.]