This week, I'm responsible for one of the asynchronous sessions and over the course of my reading background knowledge I couldn't help but connect the issue of professional development to my life as a teacher here in Oregon. The articles I was reading were discussing what kind of training people felt they needed, and there were differences based on experience and type of virtual school. They then went into the different models that are used to present training. My thoughts turned back to my home district and I was wondering what the percentages would look like in our brick and mortar building. I was interested to see if what teacher's perception of their needs, and what we receive from our district would agree at all. I have a guess, but I don't want to speak for all the teachers in our district. I also couldn't help but notice that most of the survey respondents preferred their training in a mix of face-to-face and virtual training. Wouldn't it stand to reason that would be a pretty similar response to teachers in my building, but that is definitely not how I see training happening.
As far as running the asynchronous session, I think that I'm pretty clear. I hope that my initial post will illicit some response, then I have a few directions that I'm predicting the conversation will move in, but that will be based on the groups interactions.
I'm more unsure about my synchronous run next week. The issue I have is that while I'm pretty comfortable with the material, its isn't something I'm confident enough with to work a whole lot of angles. I'm also still looking for a meaningful method for the session, as opposed to 15 min. of listening to our own voices. I'm hoping that tonight's session will provide some inspiration about the options that are out there.
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