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Empowering Deaf Education: Beyond Survival

This presentation explores leveraging technology for recognition, resources, and research in Deaf Education. Discusses addressing major issues, utilizing web-based conferencing, virtual professional development, and fostering a collaborative community. Highlights accomplishments in building an online Deaf Education community and outlines plans for a "Virtual Professional Development School."

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Empowering Deaf Education: Beyond Survival

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  1. Beyond Survival: Technological Opportunities for Recognition, Resources & Research Harold Johnson/Kent State Univ. Joyce Daugaard/Univ. of Min. Sharon Baker/Univ. of Tulsa CEASD Convention April 7, 2003 Sioux Falls, SD

  2. Guiding Concept • Teachers are the most important classroom technology and students are the most underutilized classroom resource.

  3. Presentation Outline • Who are we? • Why are we here? • What are the major problems we want to address? • What do we want to do? • How do we want to do this? • What would this this look like? • What have we accomplished so far? • What are we asking of CEASD and its members? • What can CEASD and its members expect in return? • Where do we go from here?

  4. Who are we? • Three faculty members… • From three deaf education teacher preparation programs • Representing one organization, i.e., the Association of College Educators – Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing (ACE-D/HH)

  5. Why are we here? • To propose and discuss how CEASD and ACE-D/HH can collaboratively address some of the major problems confronting Deaf Education.

  6. What are the essential problems we want to address? • Too much interpersonal and informational isolation • Too low expectations for student performance • Too few engaging and rigorous learning resources and opportunities • Too little academic content and consistency • Too much of a gap between teacher preparation and actual teaching • Too little recognition for instructional excellence • Too little sharing of instructional solutions • Too little recruitment, preparation and retention of ethnically and linguistically diverse teachers.

  7. What do we want to do? • Reduce isolation • Increase expectations • Expand learning resources and opportunities • Establish academic content and consistency • Ground theory in practice and practice in theory • Recognize instructional excellence • Share instructional solutions • Recruit, prepare and retain ethnically and linguistically diverse teachers.

  8. How do we want to do this? • Use Web based video conferencing technologies to establish a K-20 “Virtual Professional Development School” for the field of Deaf Education. • The school would serves to: • identify and share models of instructional excellence as demonstrated by our most effective teachers and interpreters; • provide virtual field experiences and actual student teaching placements for preservice teachers; • provide effective and efficient mechanism to carry out research; • mentor new teachers and retain effective current teachers; • provide virtual learning experiences and mentors for students; • provide ongoing professional development opportunities for professionals; • recruit diverse individuals to become teachers; • etc.

  9. What would this this look like? • …jump to video clips

  10. What have we accomplished so far? • The following maps demonstrate something rather remarkable that had happened during the course of the last two years… • the growth of an on-line community of learners for Deaf Education • Each “dot” represents ten individuals that have become registered users of the Deaf Education Web site (www.deafed.net)

  11. Registered users on 1/1/01 Total website registrations: 0

  12. Registered users - 6/30/01 . Total website registrations: 1,222

  13. Registered users - 1/1/02 Total website registrations: 3,689

  14. Registered users - 6/30/02 Total website registrations: 6,312

  15. Registered users - 1/1/03 Current # of registrations: 10,660 = +1,571 Total website registrations: 9,099

  16. A Description of our community

  17. Deafed Teacher Preparation Programs and Schools for the Deaf • Key: • Teacher preparation program • Participating teacher preparation program • State school for the deaf

  18. Our Web Resource • Our Search Engine

  19. Our Job & Resume Bank

  20. Our Calendar of Events

  21. Our Topical Teams of Experts

  22. Our “Best of the Web”

  23. Our Cyber Mentors

  24. Our Scholarships

  25. Our Document & Web Link Database

  26. Our Faculty Work • *C-1: Syllabi Use – 75 • C-2: Case Studies – 12 • C-3: Grant Writing – 13 • C-4: Course Enhancements • a: Web Activities – 48 • b: Cyber Mentors – 28 • c: Cyber Tutors – 7 • d: Cyber Pen Pals – 10 • e: Web Page Dev. - 8 *C = Choice

  27. … Our Faculty Work (cont.) • C-5: Cur. Dev. Teams – 17 • C-6: Dev. Of Case Stu. – 15 • C-7: Portfolios – 24 • C-8: K-12 Tech. Settings – 7 • C-9: Faculty Dev. Forums – 209 • C-10: Web Enhanced Courses – 52 • C-11: On-Line Courses - 11

  28. … Our Faculty Work (cont.) • C-12: Collaboration • a: Multi-Faculty – 51 • b: K-12 School Programs – 21 • c: Regional/National Projects – 47 • d: Master Teacher Iden. – 47 • C-13: Topical Teams – 44 • C-14: Other – 102 Total Choices To Date: 817

  29. Additional Technology Work • Free course development software • Evaluation of a Web based, state standard linked, curriculum enhancement tool • The establishment and support of an initial, nation wide, Web based video conferencing network • The proposal of an Internet2 application for Deaf Education • Provision of a four day (4/15-18/03) H323 & Internet2 Training Institute • Soon to be announced ReviewVideo pricing structure for the purchase of Polycom equipment

  30. What are we asking of CEASD and its members? • Encourage your colleagues to use the www.deafed.net Web site, e.g., • post jobs & calendar events • become “Cyber Mentors” • use the DeafWeb Net Search engine, Topical Teams of Experts and other on-line informational resources • identify one individual from each school for the deaf to be the primary informational contact, e.g., • Nomination of three “Master Teachers” of mathematics and/or science (i.e., Choice “12d”) • Information concerning current/projected use of video conferencing technologies • Information concerning outreach interactions with local school districts, school resources and state projects • Proposing and considering collaborating on grant activities

  31. What can CEASD and its members expect in return? • Participation in a nation wide on-line community of learners. • Effective and efficient sharing and gathering of information. • Recognition for existing instructional excellence and curricular resources. • Opportunity to “shape” and benefit from the work of the next generation of teachers and interpreters. • Opportunity to collaborate on state, regional and national grant efforts, e.g., NSF MSP grant competition. • Opportunity to suggest, participate in and benefit from research studies. • Opportunity to make a difference in the lives of d/hh students.

  32. Where do we go from here? • We discuss your questions and suggestions. • You think about what has been suggested and decide if you want to give this a “go” • What do you think?

  33. We thank you for your time this morning and we hope we will have the opportunity to work with you in the very near future

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