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PAPERBACK list:$21.00 Web:$18.90 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Free Resources Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Display this book on your site! Related Titles Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8 What Is the Influence of the National Science Education Standards?: Reviewing the Evidence, A Workshop Summary Other Related Titles Enhancing Professional Development for Teachers: Potential Uses of Information Technology, Report of a Workshop (2007) Center for Education (CFE) Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Page 23   E-mail  Facebook  Digg  Stumble  Twitter More The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. Teacher Leadership Opportunities for teachers to play leadership roles are strong in online professional development. For example, as Barbara Treacy explained, the EdTech Leaders Online program offered by the Education Development Center is “a teacher leadership model. It’s a capacity-building model where we work with any educational organization to help them figure out how to use online learning to meet their goals.” An organization’s leadership selects staff to be trained to become online professional development instructors, thereby creating a long-term relationship and capacity building in a school district. For example, in Mississippi, a cohort of 24 online facilitators were trained by EdTech Leaders Online and now are offering online summer courses to teachers who hold emergency certification; 90 percent of these teachers complete the course that also matches their content areas and assigned grade levels. In the Los Angeles Unified School District, there is a growing opportunity for teachers to receive online professional development. According to Martha Valencia, many of the district’s teachers prefer to take the required professional development online; surveys of teachers indicate that this mode is popular because it allows them greater flexibility in their schedules to complete the program and also to avoid long commutes to professional development sites. Teachers who want leadership opportunities have doors open to them through training to become online trainers, online course developers, and part of an online program development both in their own school districts and in some of the many online programs now available nationally. This could become a new step in a teacher career pathway. Page 23 Front Matter (R1-R14) Introduction (1-9) Advantages of Online Professional Development (10-15) Obstacles to Online Teacher Professional Development (16-22) Teacher Leadership (23-23) The Need for Research on Online Teacher Professional Development (24-28) Next Steps (29-33) References (34-34) Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants (35-44) Appendix B: Workshop Materials (45-51) Appendix C: Programs Highlighted During the Workshop (52-63) Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Workshop Presenters (64-74)

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Enhancing Professional Development for Teachers Potential Uses of Information Technology: Report of a Workshop Teacher Leadership Opportunities for teachers to play leadership roles are strong in online professional development. For example, as Barbara Treacy explained, the EdTech Leaders Online program offered by the Education Development Center is “a teacher leadership model. It’s a capacity-building model where we work with any educational organization to help them figure out how to use online learning to meet their goals.” An organization’s leadership selects staff to be trained to become online professional development instructors, thereby creating a long-term relationship and capacity building in a school district. For example, in Mississippi, a cohort of 24 online facilitators were trained by EdTech Leaders Online and now are offering online summer courses to teachers who hold emergency certification; 90 percent of these teachers complete the course that also matches their content areas and assigned grade levels. In the Los Angeles Unified School District, there is a growing opportunity for teachers to receive online professional development. According to Martha Valencia, many of the district’s teachers prefer to take the required professional development online; surveys of teachers indicate that this mode is popular because it allows them greater flexibility in their schedules to complete the program and also to avoid long commutes to professional development sites. Teachers who want leadership opportunities have doors open to them through training to become online trainers, online course developers, and part of an online program development both in their own school districts and in some of the many online programs now available nationally. This could become a new step in a teacher career pathway.

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