David,I would be very interested in being part of this group.  Project IDEAL
uses both blended and online approaches to professional development and I
would love to learn more and share ideas with my colleagues.

Leslie Petty

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:40 PM, djrosen1 <djrosen1 at gmail.com> wrote:


> Hi Crystal,

>

> Thanks for your informative post. Does GED-i also provide GED-i

> teachers with  training online (or in a blended training model)  to

> teach GED-i students online? Although it may not have been clear, I

> was suggesting that there may be a small group of PD-ers interested

> in working to develop a design or a model for training teachers to

> teach online students, a design that is aligned with the newly

> developed AALPD PD standards and that also draws on best practicies

> from those who have been training teachers (online) to teach students

> online or in blended learning models.

>

> So far, I have heard from three people who are interested in forming

> such an (online) work group. Crystal,  would you also like to join

> this work group? Are there others who would like to join? If so,

> email me and I will be glad to send everyone who is interested an

> email with the names and email addresses of those who are interested

> so we can get started.

>

> David J. Rosen

> djrosen1 at gmail.com

>

> On Dec 29, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Crystal Hack wrote:

>

> > Hello All,

> >

> > I would be more than willing to be a part of a small discussion

> > group on this.

> >

> > The GED-i does almost all of our PD online or at a distance.  We

> > began to offer PD online/at-a-distance as a direct response to the

> > cut in our adult education budgets, our limited PD staff time

> > available to travel around the state of IL and to other states.  We

> > needed to save our project $s and time and save our adult ed

> > provider $s and time away from the classroom as well.

> >

> > We provide the following at a distance PD and have provided it to

> > IL and our other partner state users for several years.

> > A variety of phone conference PD opportunities (these are very well

> > received and attended).

> > Several online chat opportunities using tappedin.org (we used to

> > use yahoo but have switched to tappedin for a variety of reasons

> > that I can share).

> > Email follow up to F2F trainings to extend the learning process and

> > provide further support to our users.

> > Online email trainings that range in length from 3 weeks to 6 weeks

> > that are geared toward administrators (program leadership),

> > coordinators, and instructors.

> > Full day, half day, and one hour video conference trainings and

> > training follow ups are also a part of our offerings as well.

> > Online email mentoring for a 12 week period that follows our F2F

> > training or our email trainings.

> > Two online courses are also available, although they are fairly

> > labor intensive and require a much higher level of commitment than

> > the other at-a-distance offerings we provide our users.

> > When we started this we had a hard time filling our at a distance

> > PD and offered about a equal amount of F2F and at a distance

> > trainings.  Now we offer about 90% online and have waiting lists

> > for our PD and have to go as far as having repeat offerings that

> > were unscheduled to accommodate those who want to take part.  We

> > have learned a lot offering PD at a distance.  We have definitely

> > evolved our registration, training, tracking, and follow up

> > processes as well as the structure of the PD we do.

> >

> > Let me know if there are questions and if you would like me to be

> > involved in further discussion of this topic.

> >

> > Crystal

> >

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> > ----- Original Message -----

> > From: "djrosen1" <djrosen1 at gmail.com>

> > To: "The Adult Literacy Professional Development Discussion List"

> > <professionaldevelopment at nifl.gov>

> > Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 8:12:26 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada

> > Central

> > Subject: [ProfessionalDevelopment 2703] Re: Economic Stimulus and

> > Professional Development

> >

> > Colleagues,

> >

> > On Dec 27, 2008, at 3:05 PM, Jackie A. Taylor wrote:

> >

> > So, a few questions:

> >

> > What are the considerations for professional development if the

> > $500 million stimulus for adult education became an immediate reality?

> >

> > • Massachusetts many years ago decided that 10% of its state and

> > federal adult education funding should be used for professional

> > development. I think that's a guideline that should be recommended

> > to other states in all new federal funding.

> >

> > • We (professional developers, practitioners) need federal funding

> > for a national research center specifically for adult literacy

> > education (like NCSALL).

> >

> > What additional models already exist that we can learn from?

> >

> > One of the adult literacy education delivery models that has great

> > promise, but that will require significant new and additional

> > professional development ,is online learning. This is especially

> > useful for programs that involve initial face-to-face training and/

> > or education and then job placement, where there is still need for

> > continued education once the person is working, but because of the

> > work schedule there is not much opportunity to attend classes. A

> > blended model, that involves some face-to-face, perhaps one or two

> > Saturdays a month, and 4-10 hours a week of online learning might

> > be an ideal model for some people in this situation. Currently

> > there are very few adult literacy education teachers who have been

> > trained to do online learning well. If online or blended learning

> > significantly expands, there will be a "labor shortage" of these

> > teachers.

> >

> > How would we get up and running as quickly as possible?

> >

> > We are now close to having final AALPD standards for professional

> > development. Using those standards as a touchstone, and the

> > knowledge gained by Project IDEAL, the Health Care Learning Network

> > in Massachusetts, The McDonald's Corporation's English Under the

> > Arches, programs that have used English for All (and now USA

> > Learns) and other online and blended learning models, perhaps we

> > could discuss here -- and archive on the ALE Wiki -- some design

> > principles, objectives and content areas for training/professional

> > development in online teaching. Has someone already done (or begun)

> > that?

> >

> > If there were a small group of people who were interested not just

> > in discussing this, but also working on developing a PD design for

> > online adult literacy education teaching, perhaps they could

> > organize themselves in an online workgroup (using Officezilla,

> > Community Zero, a Google or Yahoo group and/or a wiki). We could

> > discuss that here, too.

> >

> >

> > David J. Rosen

> > DJRosen at theworld.com

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > David J. Rosen

> > djrosen1 at gmail.com

> >

> >

> >

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Leslie Petty, Ed.D.
Associate Director
Project IDEAL Support Center
University of Michigan
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