Synthesis of Assessments Professional Dev

Assembled by Richard Statler Introduction On August 19th, 2003, Pacific Crest facilitated a professional development workshop held at the University of Idaho in Moscow.. The purpose of t

Synthesis of the Professional Development

Workshop *

*For use only by project participants Not for promotional or other commercial uses.

Assembled by Richard Statler

Introduction

On August 19th, 2003, Pacific Crest facilitated a professional

development workshop held at the University of Idaho in Moscow This workshop was funded by the ELE project at UI under the NSF

Additional funding came from the Colleges of Engineering at UI The workshop was organized by Steven Beyerlein and facilitated by Dan Apple, President of Pacific Crest The purpose of this document is to summarize assessment of the workshop Note: this document is a draft intended for communication—it is not intended to be a highly polished document

Faculty members and students from UI and WSU attended this

interdisciplinary workshop The workshop had three primary

objectives:

• Review and make suggestions for improving a first draft of the Teacher's Assessment Journal, responding to needs expressed by

2003 Teaching Institute participants for tools to document and expand skills in teaching/learning

• Gain experience writing individualized performance criteria that provide a framework for assessing personal effectiveness and planning future professional activities

• Become familiar with steps required to generate an annual

assessment report that can enrich discussion surrounding annual employment reviews

Methods

• Participants who had attended the workshop filled out an

assessment form at the conclusion The number of assessment forms filled out was 19

Excel and averaged

paraphrased

Results

Quantitative Evaluation: (1-10, 10 being high)

How Valuable was the workshop?

8.2

The degree to which your goals/expectations for the workshop were met 8.2

How much did you learn about the faculty planning process?

8.6 The effectiveness of the facilitator

8.1

The effectiveness of the workshop material

7.4

Level of interest in attending addition workshops

8.6

Qualitative Assessment:

i Negotiating the outcomes and bringing the closure to the outcomes The natural flow of the ending of the event didn’t feel right The synthesizing of the

outcomes and reviewing these outcomes

ii The production of a template for future use by the

participants This is the heart of what most were

seeking – structure, direction, and some means of

monitoring their effort over the year Denny’s

suggestion is why it came about

iii Ability to draw us into deeper commitment by drawing off of interests shared, by offering support, and it

provided the means for continual growth Constant inquiry about individuals, their needs, interests, and passions can give strong prompts of how to then

challenge, support, and monitor the advancement of the particular areas by connecting and bringing meaning to their use of that prompt area

iv Getting participants strongly engaged in a set of

resources By offering the role of assessor where their job is to improve the product, they do not take the role

of skeptic, but start analyzing so they can improve it leaves them more vulnerable to being open thus leading

to more ownership and commitment to the resources the ongoing process Looking at a table of contents was critical to provide framework

v Participants were strongly engaged in the teacher

portfolio Leverage off a single participants strong

learning need that put many of the community in a helpful constructive consulting role that cause people to

do more analysis and reflection of their own current practices

i Use more visual representations of ideas and things to help people both access and provide framework for other additions refinements Carefully think through how and what means to provide the visual

ii Teacher’s Assessment Journal – map of the Journal so that the connectiveness of the journal to the faculty performance

iii Alignment to a longer term growth and deliverables – bringing more continuity and - There is presented an agenda not an offering = inventory the deliverables as they are being developed:

i Community of mentors working on mentoring, including a focus group who is interested in the research of mentoring and support the advancement of mentoring

ii Mentoring Handbook for Publication iii Community of faculty/administrators who are willing to be coached on implementing a more structured and defined professional development and assessment process

iv We created a visual representation of mentoring for shared understanding

v Initiative of building a research program in instructional design

vi Rubrics for mentoring and measuring level

of success of the mentoring experience

i Processes discussed here are time intrusive, but seem to have worth while pay of

ii Each additional workshop I attend produces incremental understanding

iii I left with solid goals I feel I can chart my trajectory and growth

iv Many of us have the tools and idea;, we just need to apply them

v I need to narrow my focus about performance criteria and that will help me not only identify what I

do, but how I do it.

vi Accountability is essential

Participants (19) of the 2003 Professional Development

Workshop:

ALEX KORZYK alexk@uidaho.edu University of Idaho Business 885-5958

BARBARA C

WILLIAMS barbwill@uidaho.edu University of Idaho

Bio and Ag Engineering 885-9436 CHONG LENG

DAN CORDON cord4530@uidaho.edu University of Idaho Mechanical Engineering 208-885-7948 LINDA MORRIS ljmorris@uidaho.edu University of Idaho Business 885-7159 DENNY DAVIS davis@wsu.edu Washington State University Bioengineering 509-335-7993 DONALD ELGER delger@uidaho.edu University of Idaho ME 885-7889

JENNI LIGHT jlight@wsu.edu Washington State University Civil eng 509-335-6239 KARI GALLOWAY karig@uidaho.edu University of Idaho Dean of Students-Women's Center 885-6616

KEN NOREN knoren@uidaho.edu University of Idaho ECE 209-0405 RALPH BUDWIG rbudwig@uidaho.edu University of Idaho M.E 885-6579 RICHARD

STATLER stat5166@uidaho.edu University of Idaho ME 208-885-2551 SAM

ZIMMERMAN zimm2280@uidaho.edu University of Idaho Mechanical Engineering 170-5805 STEVE

BEYERLEIN sbeyer@uidaho.edu University of Idaho Mechanical Engineering 885-4932 HOWARD PEAVY howardp@uidaho.edu University of Idaho Engineering (208) 885-6479 TRIS UTSCHIG ttutschig@lcsc.edu Other Engr, Physics, Nat Sci 208-798-7818