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Promising Practices in OST Professional Development

Promising Practices in OST Professional Development. December 14, 2012. OSTRC. The Out-of-School Time Resource Center promotes youth achievement by supporting staff and enriching programs. With a focus on out-of-school time (OST), we: Identify and coordinate resources.

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Promising Practices in OST Professional Development

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  1. Promising Practices in OST Professional Development December 14, 2012

  2. OSTRC The Out-of-School Time Resource Center promotes youth achievement by supporting staff and enriching programs. With a focus on out-of-school time (OST), we: • Identify and coordinate resources. • Conduct research and evaluation. • Recommend changes in practice and policy.

  3. Session Goals • Understand how to design, implement, and assess quality out-of-school time professional development • Recognize the research behind the promising practices • Identify local and national professional development resources

  4. Who’s In the Audience?

  5. Defining OST PD Professional development refers to a spectrum of activities, resources, and supports that help practitioners work more effectively with or on behalf of children and youth. Professional development formats include workshops, technical assistance, apprenticeships, and additional diverse offerings. Practitioners can be full-time staff, part-time staff, volunteers, teenagers, parents, or other non-staff members, provided that the professional development experience culminates in supporting OST youth participants. (Peter, 2009)

  6. Types of OST PD • Workshops and trainings • Technical Assistance (TA) • Conferences • Peer networking • Peer mentoring • Coursework • Professional memberships • Certifications

  7. Best and Worst PD

  8. Goals and Objectives Goal: A statement that describes what the learner will gain from instruction in broad terms Objective: A specific and measurable statement that describes what the learner will know or be able to do as a result of engaging in an activity. S.M.A.R.T. Objectives: Specific Measurable Achievable Realistic Time

  9. Who Sets Goals and Objectives?

  10. Needs Assessments • Surveys • Polls • Interviews • Focus Groups • Inventories • Other?

  11. Do Adults and Children Learn the Same Way?

  12. Adult Learners • Are autonomous, experienced, self-directed, knowledgeable, practical, goal-oriented, and relevancy-oriented. • Are motivated by social relationships, social welfare, compliance, personal advancement, escape, stimulation, and cognitive interest.

  13. Evaluation “Evaluation is the systematic investigation of merit or worth.” -Thomas Guskey University of Kentucky

  14. Types of Evaluation

  15. Quantitative Qualitative Types of Evaluation

  16. Formative Summative Quantitative Qualitative Longitudinal Snapshot Objective Observation Participant Observation Formative Summative POP QUIZ!What kind of evaluation is this? Longitudinal Objective Observation • Jack Frost is 85 years old. For the past 70 years, he has completed an annual survey that measures the effects of Global Warming. • Noel is in charge of planning the office holiday party this year. Since attendance has been low in the past, she decided to survey her coworkers to better understand what changes can be made in this year’s preparations. • Nick was recently hired by Chris Cringle to evaluate how productive his employees are, and was given strict instructions not to help in anyway. • Holly & Ivy are curious about how effective their workshop held last week was; they have scheduled 5 focus groups to get feedback from all workshop participants. Qualitative

  17. Levels of Evaluation • Satisfaction • Acquisition of knowledge and skills • Institutional integration • Application • Extension • Student impact • (Professional Identity)

  18. Resources • OSTRC Online Document Library: www.sp2.upenn.edu/ostrc/doclibrary/index.html • OSTRC Publications: www.sp2.upenn.edu/ostrc/research/ostrcpubs.html • OSTRC PD Evaluation Toolkits: www.sp2.upenn.edu/ostrc/research/Toolkits.html • Promising Practices in OST PD: www.sp2.upenn.edu/ostrc/doclibrary/documents/PromisingPracticesinOut-of-SchoolTimeProfessionalDevelopment_000.pdf • Promising Practices in OST PD/Annotated Bibliography: www.sp2.upenn.edu/ostrc/doclibrary/documents/AnnotatedBibliography-PromisingPracticesinOut-of-SchoolTimeProfessionalDevelopment.pdf • Defining Our Terms: Professional Development in OST: www.sp2.upenn.edu/ostrc/doclibrary/documents/DefiningOurTerms-ProfessionalDevelopmentinOut-of-SchoolTime.pdf

  19. Conclusion • Questions and comments • Challenge Cards

  20. The End

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