On Sunday, I attended a web conference. I sat in my husband's recliner while my children shouted at the computer screen while Dr. Abernathy spoke to us that had logged in. Thankfully, I don't have a web cam or speaker on my old DELL Inspiron 1501 so no one else had to hear them yell either. I took from this web conference a lot of valuable information. Dr. Abernathy was very helpful; as was having a conversation with people that are doing the same work you are doing! There are many benefits to completing an online degree, one of them is not the loss of being able to pick your professors brain. But I digress....
The most important thing I took away from this web conference was information on what ILD stands for; which by the way is Instructional Leadership Development. What is this you might ask? ILD is a course that has a primary audience of future administrators. It is meant to teach you how to gain skills to facilitate continuous campus improvement. Topics included are data-driven decision making, curriculum, instruction, assessment, developmental supervision, professional development, community partnerships/communication, organizational management, and evaluation. Doesn't that sound like so much fun? Don't you want to spend 36 of your long awaited summer vacation hours attending this in a cold education service center building??? This 36 hour course can be completed face to face or online. The cost ranges from $450-$600. Seriously? We are teachers! That's almost 3 trips to the grocery store! Oh well, there is nothing I can do about it because ILD is a requirement in order to become a certified principal in the great State of Texas. I guess I'll be shelling out this money sooner than later. If you have a need to find out information about ILD, I have provided you below with the information I found online at the Region IV ESC website.
http://www.escweb.net/tx_esc_04/catalog/event.aspx?s=7b9fdb7f-04de-4413-a63c-69393b0802d6&keywords=ILD&audience=&subject=&creditType=&start=&end=&pid=&eventId=2552&guid=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
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Texas Long Range Plan for Technology
The Texas Long Range Plan for Technology, 2006-2020, is a comprehensive plan that is mapping out a plan for all schools in Texas to be Target Tech schools by the year 2020. A Target Tech campus will be the campus that embeds technology in every spectrum, for all age levels and for all stakeholders (parents, teachers, students). A component of the Texas Long Range Plan for Technology is The Texas STaR Chart. The STaR chart is a teacher tool for planning and self-assessing aligned with the Long-Range Plan for Technology, 2006-2020.
On our campus, the STaR chart showed that Educator Preparation and Development was our greatest weakness on campus. In 2009-2010, we scored developed and that sends up a red flag to myself and should to administrators on campus. What changed in this year that we fell from advanced from the year before and then went up again the year after? As a future administrator, I would look carefully at the sub domains within this area and determine where our weakness lies and how we can improve upon that. Those sub-domains are Professional Development Experiences, Models of Professional Development, Capabilities of Educators, Access to Professional Development, Levels of Understanding and Patterns of Use, and Professional Development for Online Learning. It’s apparent that Professional Development in this area is not strength on our campus and it would be beneficial to ask the teachers what time of professional development would help them long term and then seek those types of presentations/presenters out for our teachers.
On our campus, the STaR chart showed that Educator Preparation and Development was our greatest weakness on campus. In 2009-2010, we scored developed and that sends up a red flag to myself and should to administrators on campus. What changed in this year that we fell from advanced from the year before and then went up again the year after? As a future administrator, I would look carefully at the sub domains within this area and determine where our weakness lies and how we can improve upon that. Those sub-domains are Professional Development Experiences, Models of Professional Development, Capabilities of Educators, Access to Professional Development, Levels of Understanding and Patterns of Use, and Professional Development for Online Learning. It’s apparent that Professional Development in this area is not strength on our campus and it would be beneficial to ask the teachers what time of professional development would help them long term and then seek those types of presentations/presenters out for our teachers.
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