Fwd: TL183079 Global Education: Tools and Approaches for Teacher Leaders | Section 290133

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From: <Brooke_Taira/OCISS/HIDOE@notes.k12.hi.us>
Date: Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 9:44 AM
Subject: TL183079 Global Education: Tools and Approaches for Teacher Leaders | Section 290133
To: teri.ann.lin@gmail.com
Cc: yrobertson@hsta.org

Greetings!

As the sponsor for your course, TL183079 Global Education: Tools and Approaches for Teacher Leaders | Section 290133, I have reviewed the course and included suggested revisions below in order make the approval process as smooth as possible once the course is submitted.

Please submit any edits/corrections to me via email, and I will make the corrections to your online PD.

Geographic Availability is approved.

See comments below.

Course Details:
 

• Consider working on the course description as it currently seems a little vague. You indicate that you will be focusing on Domains 4 & 7, but for what purpose and with what focus? For instance, you say the course will help participants "improve instructional practices and advocate for the teaching profession" but need to be more specific. These are great objectives to work towards, but if the course focus is on Global Education, please indicate what that means and how you will incorporate it in the course description.
• If the course is fully online, please indicate in title of the course. Synchronous online opportunities for collaboration are recommended, but it looks like those will be built in. See below in Section for how to indicate dates for online meeting times.
• If this course is open to a targeted audience (a particular school, complex area, etc.) please make note of it in the Course Notes.

• Please set competencies for this course (can be found in the drop-down menu provided on PDE3).

Section:

•  For any synchronous webinars, online discussions, etc. please indicate dates and times in section. You may do so in the syllabus, but if you plan to teach the course again just include in the section notes to make resubmitting an easier process. Either way, make sure participants know when and how they will receive online support and opportunities for collaboration during the course.

Syllabus:

• I realize you are using the objectives from the Teacher Leader Model Standards, but is there a way to streamline or condense these objectives? My hunch is that when I submit the course, they would rather see a few well-developed and condensed objectives than a long list. For instance, 7 and 8 could be condensed into one objective rather than two.
• As this is a 3-credit course, you will want participants to demonstrate their own growth as well as impact on student learning. Please indicate in objectives and activities how participants might measure and convey impact on student learning. You might think about this also for portfolio contents as well as I know that when the course is submitted, the EO for PD will be looking for this.
• You will want to provide dates interactive web-based activities (preferably in section notes, as indicated previously)
• Reflection is mentioned often in the syllabus, and this is great—we want to encourage participants to be reflective practitioners. Could you include a short blurb on what reflection might entail for this course—how will participants reflect? What will it look like?

Program Plan

• Under Teacher Qualifications, please include years of teaching and any specific expertise that lends itself to the teaching of this course.
  • Under purpose, I know the EO will want you to describe the purpose in different language than you have used before. In other words, purpose and objectives should not be the same.

Elements of Quality PD:

• For Focus on Student Learning, please elaborate on how you will show impact on student work. (This goes along with above feedback for syllabus).

I am linking two documents you might find helpful below:
• Here is the PDE3 manual. This manual is in the process of being updated but in the meantime please refer to this document.
• Here is the PD credit & Non-PD credit Comparison Quicksheet. This document outlines some basic dos and don'ts for PD credit courses.

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Thank you,
Brooke