Showcase: Online Professional Development for Improved

Selection, Implementation, and Evaluation of Accommodations

Sheryl Lazarus and Michael MooreNational Center on Educational Outcomes

University of Minnesota

Nannette PenceAlabama State Department of Education

Student Assessment Office

Literature Review on Successful Professional Development

NCEO sought to make sure our online training was developed with careful consideration for what the literature says about effective teacher professional development.

Literature Review on Successful Professional Development

Findings included:

1. Effective teacher Professional Development must be connected to teacher’s context and practice.

Case Based Instruction in the form of case studies that are written as rich narratives of real-life teacher practice, are sometimes more appealing to teachers than only content instruction.

Literature Review on Successful Professional Development

2. Effective teacher Professional Development should provide teachers an opportunity to APPLY what they have learned. 

For more, see NCEO’s Synthesis Report #84, Professional Development to Improve Accommodations Decisions -- A Review of the Literature

nceo.info/OnlinePubs/Synthesis84/SynthesisReport84.pdf

The training can be found at https://

nceo.umn.edu/alabama

To begin your free login account, go to

https://nceo.umn.edu/alabama/userJoin.php

The Alabama Online Accommodations Training

https://nceo.umn.edu/alabama/userJoin.php

https://nceo.umn.edu/alabama/login.php

The Alabama Online Accommodations Training

5-part Model for Accommodations Decision-making Process

Case-based Curriculum

Other case-based featured students

Student Profiles

For each student, you can view an Overview, their Schedules, Grades, Special Education and Related Services, and Emails (between teachers, parents, etc.)

Additional case-based design connected to teacher’s context and practice: Videos

Videos both imbedded in modules, and located in video folder

Video folder

Videos tell a story through course of the 5 modules

Emma with special education teacher

Special education teacher and general education teacher

Teacher / parent collaboration

Meeting with district test coordinator

IEP team meeting

Post-test evaluation with test administrator

The Decision-Making Tool: Apply what you learn

In the next slides the Decision-Making Tool is demon-strated using information related to our featured student, Emma.

Now it’s your turn. In the following slides fill out the Decision-Making Tool with information from one of our other students in the Student Profiles. Or use information from a student in your classroom.

The same Decision-Making Tool within Module pages can be accessed with above icon. The Tool appears like the one to the right, and shows data entered for all 5 modules.

The PDF version of the Decision-Making Tool is available in Resources. The blank version with fillable forms can be saved and used for use in the classroom.

Other Features: Audio clips from our Super Teacher

Other Features: Activities

Activities provide immediate feedback when you click on Answers.

Other Features: Knowledge Checks

Like the Activities, Knowledge Checks provide immediate feedback when you click on Answers and also let you know why an answer is incorrect.

Other Features: Journal

Some slides ask you to reflect on questions, and the Journal can be used to enter and save responses.

Other Features: Resources

Links to online Tools, websites, and other helpful resources

Pre- and post-assessments

NCEO YouTube Channel

All the videos can be found on NCEO’s YouTube Channel:

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnvPMaguIvwYqWrBSgZKlUA/videos