1. Staff Development
EDAD 5399 By
Dr. Harold Smith

2. Texas Education Code 21.451 Who is responsible? What must be taught?
Who must attend?
Purposes
What setting for staff development?
Special Programs?
Must attendees sign in?
How many days are required by TEA?

3. Texas Education Code
Who is responsible for campus staff development?
Campus Team
Principal
How are topics selected?

4. Texas Education Code 21.451 What topics will be addressed? AEIS report
ATP report
Campus Improvement Plan
Budget
The SBDM is required to sign off on staff development.

5. Texas Education Code 21.451 Staff development may include:
Training in Technology
Conflict Resolution
Discipline Strategies
Classroom Management
Student Code of Conduct
Classroom Instruction

6. Texas Education Code
Specific topics addressed in the Campus Improvement Plan.
District Requirements
Legal Issues
School Safety
Parent Involvement
(One 1% of your students will see a adult male read this month)

7. Texas Education Code 21.451 Laws and Procedures for Special Programs
Data interpretation
Teaching Strategies
Religious Rights
Civil Rights
Health Issues

8. Texas Education Code 21.451 Purposes of Staff Development
Enhance Skills
Share Effective Strategies
Reflect on Curricular and Instructional Issues
Analyze Student Achievement Results
Reflect on Means of Increasing Student Achievement
Study Research

9. Texas Education Code 21.451 Purposes continued
Practice New Methods of Instructions
Identify Students’ Strengths and Weaknesses
Develop Meaningful Programs for Students
Discuss Research
Plan Research

10. Texas Education Code 21.451 Methods Study Teams Individual Research
Peer Coaching
Workshops
Seminars
Conferences
Book Studies
College Courses

11. Texas Education Code 21.451 Models Individual Guided Model
Observation/Assessment Model
Development/Improvement Model
Inquiry Model
Training Model
Other Models Meeting Local Needs

12. Texas Education Code 21.451 Special Program Requirements
Title I Staff Development
Parent Involvement Programs
Improve Student Performance
Basic Legal Requirements
Special Budget

13. Texas Education Code 21.451 Gifted and Talented Continued
Teachers who provide instruction and services to gifted student must receive 6 hours of staff development annually
Administrators and Counselors who have authority for program decisions must have 6 hours of staff development.

14. Texas Education Code 21.451 Special Programs Continued
Gifted and Talented Education
Teacher must have completed 30 hours of staff development before working with GT students in a special setting.
Assessing student needs, curriculum and instruction.
Teacher does not have 30 hours?----
Must be completed within one semester.

15. Texas Education Code 21.451 Who Must Attend Staff Development?
The Code does not name positions. But the district may designate who must attend.
Some special programs tell who must attend
New teaching certificates and principal certificates require hours to be earned.

16. Texas Education Code 21.451 Special Programs Continued
Special Education
Training that relates to instruction of students with disabilities and is designed for educators who work primarily outside the area of special education.
What do you do with a Modification Sheet?
How do I adjust my instruction to meet the needs of the students in my class?
What test will I give my students?

17. Texas Education Code
The Local Education Agency may set additional staff development requirements for all employees.

18. Texas Education Code 21.451 Adult Education
Could Include Alternative High Schools
Staff Hired after September 1, 1996 shall receive 12 hours of staff development annually.
Staff members new to adult education must receive 6 hours before working with students.

19. Texas Education Code
In-service for professional development may be reduced in individual cases if documentation of exceptional circumstances is submitted to TEA for approval.
Records of professional development shall be maintained by the district.

20. Texas Education Code
Teachers must earn 150 approved hours of training each five years to renew their certificate.
All other professionals must earn 200 hours each five years.
Other professionals, principals, counselors, superintendents, librarians, master teachers, diagnosticians

21. Must I earn 150 hours to keep my teacher certificate and 200 hours to keep my principal certificate?
Do I have to earn 150 hours for each teaching certificate?
Certificate information-left menu
Certificate Renewal Requirements.

22. Can a district require employees to attend staff development?
How can that be enforced.
Can staff development hours count toward renewal of certification?

23. Warning Have legal department check contract before signing.
Does district have a standard contract?
Know what will be presented.
Is the presentation consistent with district requirements?
Agree on time limits before beginning.

24. Sources Local curriculum staff State conferences Universities
Service Centers
Professional associations
TEA
Some of these groups have presentations that can be downloaded.

25. Resistance to Change 1. Why change? 2. What will it cost me?
3. Will change create more work for me?
4. Who is making us do this?
5. What is wrong with what we are doing?
6. Are other schools changing?

26. Change Principles
1. People don’t change unless they share a compelling reason to change.
2. People don’t change unless they have ownership in the change.
3. People don’t change unless their leaders model that they are serious about the change.

27. Change Principles
4. People are unlikely to change unless they have a concrete picture of what the change will look like for them personally.
5. People can’t make a change—or make it last—unless they receive organizational support for the change.

28. Why Do Changes Not Happen?
1. Too many topics are presented.
2. No support for change.
3. No follow up activities.
4. Funding.
5. The leadership does not support change.
6. You change—I don’t need to change.

29. Why Do Changes Not Happen?
7. Attempt to move too fast.
8. Lack of direction.
9. Change takes us from our comfort zone.

30. Assume-Don’t Assume
1. Do not assume that your vision of what the change should be is the one that should or could be implemented.
2. Assume that any significant innovation requires individual implementers to work out their own meaning

31. 3. Assume that conflict and disagreement are not only inevitable but fundamental to successful change.
4. Assume that people need pressure to change but it will be effective only under conditions that allow them to react.

32. 5. Assume that effective change takes time.
6. Do not assume that the reason for lack of implementation is outright rejection of the values embodied in the change, or hard-core resistance to all change.

33. 7. Do not expect all or even most people or groups to change.
8. Assume that you will need a plan that is based on the above assumptions and that address the factors known to affect implementation.

34. 9. Assume that no amount of knowledge will ever make it totally clear what action should be taken.
10. Assume that changing the culture of institutions is the real agenda, not implementing single innovations.

35. Change Process You can’t mandate what matters
Change is a journey, not a blueprint
Problems are our friends

36. Vision and strategic planning come later
Individualism and collectivism must have equal power
Neither centralization or decentralization works