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Empowering Noyce Scholars Through an Online Learning Community

This presentation showcases the innovative online professional learning community (PLC) created for Noyce Scholars, emphasizing peer mentoring, resource sharing, and professional development opportunities. It covers the leadership team, planning methods, Second Life meetings, and reflections from participants, discussing challenges and successes in utilizing virtual platforms for educational enhancement. The discussion also delves into the data collection, content focus on math instruction, assessment strategies, and resources employed to support the scholars.

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Empowering Noyce Scholars Through an Online Learning Community

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  1. The Power of an Online Learning Community: By and For Noyce Scholars2010 Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program Conference Washington, D.C.July 8, 2010 Ariel McIntyre Rabia Shahbaz Angelle Whittington

  2. Overview • Context • Goals • Leadership Team • Noyce Scholars: Planning • Online PLC: Second Life • Resources • Research: Data Collection

  3. Context • To share the components of our online professional learning community(PLC) for the Noyce Scholars of Georgia State University • To share the growth of the PLC

  4. Goals of PLC • Support • Peer to peer mentoring • Sharing of resources/instructional strategies • Professional learning opportunities

  5. Leadership Team-Professors

  6. Leadership Team-Noyce Scholars

  7. Leadership Meetings • First meeting at Georgia State University • Skype meetings • Informal cell phone meetings • Email • UMEP-Leadership Google Group

  8. Planning Topics Methods • Goals/Objectives • Set-up Online Meetings • Reflections • Data Collection • Informal Phone Calls • SL Meetings • Emails

  9. Second Life

  10. Online PLC Meetings • Inaugural Meeting-November 21, 2009 • 23 Noyce Scholars present • 1 Grad student data collector • 3 Georgia State Professors • Goals • Attendance • Set Tone for future meetings • Voice Chat • Teleporting • Break Out Sessions

  11. First Meeting/ Reflections • First Impression • Frustrations • Timing -90 Minutes • Goal Accomplished • Protocol Established • Technical Assistance

  12. December Meetings/Reflections • Small Group Meetings • Focused on training, familiarity with SL, and procedures • Standing when speaking • IMs • Response Time • Teleporting • Google Group registration • Same Subject Group Meetings

  13. Spring 2010 Meeting Schedule • Same subject meeting format • February: Math I, Math II • March: Trigonometry/Calculus, New Teacher/Other • April: Math I, Math II • May: Trig/Calculus, New Teacher/Other • Meeting Times • Driven by scholar input

  14. All About the Math: Content • Clarifying standards for recently implemented integrated math curriculum in Georgia. • Identifying key skills required to meet standards. • Discussed and modified tasks for classroom implementation.

  15. All About the Math: Instruction • Reflecting on effectiveness of various textbook resources. • Sharing of how to facilitate student centered instructional methods. • Sharing of experiences using technology in classroom to differentiate instruction. • Sharing of Scholar endorsed math instructional resources (electronic format).

  16. All About the Math: Assessment • Sharing of content related formative and summative assessment resources. • Reflecting on various methods Scholars were using to help students: • reflect on how concepts are related • prepare for Georgia End of Course Test.

  17. Resources Online Professional Learning Community (PLC) is currently using the following online resources: • Second Life • Google Group • Wikispace

  18. Second life program is being used to hold online meetings with the participants of PLC. After the initial meeting in November, 2009 all meetings have been in small groups Second Life

  19. A google group with name of UMEP-PLC Participants has been created for communication among scholars. All participants and leaders are members of this group. This group is used for discussions, announcements, and sharing resources Google Group

  20. Wikispace with the name of PLC-Math 1 has been created for participants to share notes, tests and quizzes. Wikispace

  21. Data Collection • Chat Logs • Online Postings • Surveys • Attendance • Reflections

  22. Reflections • How do we reach scholars who expressed interest initially but have not participated? • How do we continue value-added peer to peer mentoring between meetings without it being burdensome to scholars? • How do we increase the frequency of discussions on math content? • SL as a rich platform for professional development.

  23. Reflection from Scholars • “Sharing ideas and lesson plans on the wiki site was a great help” • “I liked sharing resources and information about our experiences in the classroom. There were several suggestions that I was able to incorporate in the classroom. Also, just being a support group for the many frustrations that we run into as teachers was most helpful. The one thing that did not work for me in the beginning was getting to second life. I will have to get a new PC” • “What work is that we are able to meet online conveniently”

  24. Questions

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