C & I 335 Summer 1998
Brian Abeling
Pekin District
108
Pekin, Illinois
Moving towards an on-line staff development program
Introduction:
Since my first draft (1a.html), I have decided to alter my proposal slightly. In the previous plan, I focused mostly on creating a web-based staff development program for web page training. However, after Professor Waugh's feedback, I have now decided to broaden this project to include our entire staff development plan for web page training. This will hopefully give you a better feel for what training is planned, when it will happen, who will be responsible, and what topics will be covered. The development of the web-based training will become a segment of this action plan rather than the entire focus.
Last years training was entirely person to person and this years program
will move more on-line. However, after conducting interviews with our school
webmasters, it was apparent that person to person training must continue
at this point in time because teachers are not comfortable enough with
using the Internet for self-training. For this year, most training
sessions will be in the traditional format where the webmasters actually
meet face to face and we'll use the Internet to provide extended activities
and support materials. Hopefully, we will be able to shift this branch
of staff development even more to the Internet the following year.
The Big Picture
For next year, our district tech staff and district administrators
have identified three target audiences for web page training. Approximately
half of my job will be devoted towards designing and carrying out an action
plan to meet the needs of these three groups:
- Pekin.net Volunteers
- Pilot Program Teachers (2nd and 3rd year pilots)
- School Webmasters