Introduction to the Professional Development Series

1. Introduction to the Professional Development Series Jennifer Coffey, OSEP

2. Webinar Schedule Regional Meetings – Evidence Based Professional Development February 3 - Washington, DC - Speaker: Michelle Duda, SISEP February 8 - New Orleans, LA - Speaker: Melissa VanDyke, SISEP February 15 - Portland, OR - Speaker: Chris Borgmeier, Oregon PBIS Leadership Network Innovation Fluency Date: March 24, 3:00-4:30pm ET Speaker: Karen Blasé, SISEP Professional Development for Administrators Date: April 19, 3:00-4:30pm ET Speakers: Elaine Mulligan, NIUSI Leadscape & Rich Barbacane, Nat’l Association of Elementary School Principals  Steve Goodman, Michigan SPDG Using Technology for Professional Development Date: May 18, 2:00-3:30pm ET Speaker: Chris Dede, Ph.D., Learning Technologies, Harvard

3. Professional Development Defined According to the thesaurus of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) database, professional development refers to "activities to enhance professional career growth." Such activities may include individual development, continuing education, and inservice education, as well as curriculum writing, peer collaboration, study groups, and peer coaching or mentoring. Fullan (1991) expands the definition to include "the sum total of formal and informal learning experiences throughout one's career from preservice teacher education to retirement" (p. 326). North Central Regional Education Lab (NCREL)

4. "Professional development ... goes beyond the term 'training' with its implications of learning skills, and encompasses a definition that includes formal and informal means of helping teachers not only learn new skills but also develop new insights into pedagogy and their own practice, and explore new or advanced understandings of content and resources. [This] definition of professional development includes support for teachers as they encounter the challenges that come with putting into practice their evolving understandings about the use of technology to support inquiry-based learning.... Current technologies offer resources to meet these challenges and provide teachers with a cluster of supports that help them continue to grow in their professional skills, understandings, and interests.“ – Grant (nd)

5. PD Models and Evaluation • Evidence base/best practice • Models • Carol Trivette and Carl Dunst - PALS • NIRN – Implementation Drivers • Guskey • Preview to the presentation at the Regional Meeting and the PD Series • SPDG/OSEP Program Measures

6. Our Presenters Today • Julie Morrison, Ohio SPDG Evaluator • Models of Professional Development • Li Walter and Alan Wood, California SPDG Evaluators

7. “No intervention practice, no matter what its evidence base, is likely to be learned and adopted if the methods and strategies used to teach or train students, practitioners, parents, or others are not themselves effective.” "Let's Be Pals: An Evidence-based Approach to Professional Development." Dunst & Trivette, 2009

8. Two Types of Evidence-Based Practices • Evidence-Based Intervention Practices • Insert your SPDG initiative here • Evidence-Based Implementation Practices • Professional Development • Staff Competence: Selection, Training, Coaching, and Performance Assessment Drivers • Adult learning methods/principles • Evaluation

9. “Adult learning refers to a collection of theories, methods, and approaches for describing the characteristics of and conditions under which the process of learning is optimized.”

10. Adult Learning Research Synthesesa • Research synthesis of 79 studies of accelerated learning, coaching, guided design, and just-in-time-training • 58 randomized control design studies and 21 comparison group studies • 3,152 experimental group participants and 2,988 control or comparison group participants • Combination of studies in college and noncollege settings • Learner outcomes included learner knowledge, skills, attitudes, and self-efficacy beliefs • Weighted average Cohen’s d effect sizes for the post test differences between the intervention and nonintervention or comparison groups were used for assessing the impact of the adult learning methods. a Trivette, C.M. et al. (2009). Characteristics and consequences of adult learning methods and strategies. Winterberry Research Syntheses,Vol. 2, Number 1.

11. Summary of Findings • To be most effective need to actively involve the learners in judging the consequences of their learning experiences (evaluate, reflection, & mastery) • Need learner participation in learning new knowledge or practice • Need learner engagement in judging his or her experience in learning and using new material

12. Six Characteristics Identified in How People Learna Were Used to Code and Evaluate the Adult Learning Methods a Donovan, M. et al. (Eds.) (1999). How people learn. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

13. Effect Sizes for Introducing Information to Learners

14. Effect Sizes for Illustrating/Demonstrating Learning Topic

15. Effect Sizes for Learner Application

16. Effect Sizes for Learner Evaluation

17. Effect Sizes for Learner Reflection

18. Effect Sizes for Self-Assessment of Learner Mastery

19. Engaging learners in a process of self-assessment of their performance using some type of conceptual or operational framework proved to be a practice that resulted in the largest effect “Learners are not likely to become experts without instructors engaging them in a process of evaluating their experiences in the context of some framework, model, or operationally defined performance standards or expectations.”

20. “The more opportunities a learner has to acquire and use new knowledge or practice, the more frequently those opportunities occur, and the more the learner is engaged in reflection on those opportunities using some external set of standards, the greater the likelihood of optimal benefits.”

21. Cumulative Effects of the Adult Learning Characteristics

22. Additional Translational Synthesis Findings • The smaller the number of persons participating in a training (<20), the larger the effect sizes for the study outcomes. • The more hours of training over an extended number of sessions, the better the study outcomes. • The practices are similarly effective when used in different settings with different types of learners.

23. Trainers neither direct learning nor encourage only self-directed learning, but rather guide learning based on observations of learners’ experiences and evaluation of the use of the practice and learner self-assessment against standards.

24. PALS(Participatory Adult Learning Strategy) PLAN Introduce and Illustrate RECYCLE APPLICATION Active Learner Involvement Identify Next Steps in the Learning Process Practice and Evaluate INFORMED UNDERSTANDING Reflection and Mastery

25. “The use of PALS practices has been found to be associated with improved learner knowledge use, and mastery of different types of intervention practices.”

26. Trainer and Trainee Roles in the Different Phases of PALS