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PROFESSIONAL LEARNING PLAN

“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”
― Roy T. Bennett

The following is a plan for professional learning (PL) that will enable the ePortfolios team to go and show how to move the ideas from My Innovation Plan forward and help create significant learning environments that will use technology to enhance and facilitate learning.

Fostering collaboration

Two important skills on 21st-Century are collaboration and communication.  If we need to equip our learners with these skills, we must model them. This alternative PL recognizes the importance of teamwork and how technology can offer many opportunities to enhance this skill. My course plan includes in-person and online meetings to allow continuous communication. Weekly discussions will be held to help foster consistent and ongoing collaboration. 

Audience 

The audience of the course will be ELA elementary teachers and supportive staff; however, the pilot for the ePorfolio implementation will be only with one class 

Fostering self-directed learning

 During the PL, the participants will create their ePortfolio. They will construct their own knowledge when researching, playing, and experimenting with the different digital platforms to develop their ePortfolio. Participants will create meaningful learning experiences that can extend into future life and career; armed with these skills and competencies, they can continue their own self-education.

Leaders

The ePortfolio pilot team at McMullan Elementary consists of 7 teachers, the principal, the assistant principal, 2 fifth-grade ELA teachers, 1 reading specialist, 1 interventionist, and myself (tutor). I will be the primary instructor of the course and will lead group discussions.

Resources needed

  • Personal or school-issued laptop for online/in-person sessions

  • Stable WiFi connection

  • Access to Youtube, Google Suite, Canvas 

  • Resources from the Innovation Plan 

  • ADL Masters resources

  • Educators previously created content to add to the ePortfolios

  •  Additionally, extra time for collaboration during the school day or PLC time.

Evidence to evaluate PL

  • PL/self evaluation through reflection in the ePortfolio.

  • Follow-up/ check -in weekly

Incorporating Gulamhussein's principles
for effective PL in the
ePortfolios implementation

Support During Implementation

  • Collaboration between instructors and learners throughout the course.

  • The instructor will be hands-on, coaching the learners on the ePortfolios set-up.

  • Weekly discussions during PLC will address the implementation challenges to monitor what is working and what is not.

  • Access to refresher sessions.

Engaging

  • Active learning activities 

  •  Hands-on creative activities.

  • Interactive discussions

Specific 

  • For teachers, administrators, and other staff who desire to create an ePortfolio to use in supporting the ePortfolio initiative at McMullan Elementary.

Modeling

  • Instructors will model activities from the modules in person.

  • In-person sessions will be held during PLC for support where needed.

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Significant & Ongoing

  • Hybrid  (online and in-person components)

  • The PL is divided in 3 stages. Six week duration for stages 1 &2 at the beginning o the spring semester.

  • Stage 1 is in- person session. Stage 2 has 3 in-person session and 5 asynchronous. 

  • In-person and online refresher sessions will be available at the beginning of the fall semester and during the implementation. 

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BHAG & 3 Column Table

BHAG/Overarching Course Goal: Learners will create an ePortfolio to showcase and share their educational capacities and become models for others.

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Professional Learning outline

Stage 1

Stage 3

Stage 2

WEEK 1: GETTING STARTED - email / in-person on 02/12/2024-02/14/2024

WEEK 2: The  Why of ePortfolios - Email/in-person/Zoom meeting on 02/19/24 to 02/23/24

  • Discussion 1: What benefits can you gain from creating an ePortfolio?  How could this benefit your students?

  • Review ePortfolios examples from different platforms

​WordPress      http://www.harapnuik.org/?page_id=5979        https://rebeccalynntaylor.wordpress.com/

​Wix:     http://jordantroberts.wixsite.com/trainer        https://bjosephs6.wixsite.com/teachingincolor/project09 

Weebly:  https://lauraegraff.weebly.com/blog/influencer-strategy     https://taylorpons.weebly.com/waves-of-organizational-change.html

  • Create an outline of your ePortfolio design.

  • ​Choose a digital platform and set up ePortfolio 

  • Add a short autobiography on the page (ABOUT ME) 

  • ​Share your ePortfolio with a peer and discuss functionality and creativity

  • Reflection about challenges of ePortfolio implementation (quick write)

  • ​Participants review these sources for next Zoom meeting discussion (Facilitator sends an email with the links)​

CSLE+ COVA framework  https://www.harapnuik.org/?s=COVA+an+ePortfolio

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WEEK 3: COVA - Zoom meeting for discussion on 02/26/24, In-person meeting on 02/28/24

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WEEK 4 - Authentic content creation - Zoom meeting for discussion on 03/04/24, In-person meeting on 03/06/24

  • Discussion: How does a growth mindset prepare you to receive feedback? How do you assess the learning?

  • Reflection on Mindset for feedback and assessment

  • Lesson 3. Building ePortfolio content -What to add to my ePortfolio

 A learner's digital evidence of meaningful connections  https://www.harapnuik.org/?page_id=5977

  • Create and upload the link to a piece of original content added to your ePortfolio

    • Share your ePortfolio’s link with the instructor to receive feedforward (collecting evidence for understanding).

  • ​Participants review these sources for next Zoom meeting discussion (Facilitator sends an e-mail with the links)

 

WEEK 5: Learning in Community - Zoom meeting for discussion 03/20/24​

  • Discussion- What benefits can I gain when working collaboratively with my colleagues? 

  • Share your ePortfolio’s link with the instructor to receive feedforward (collecting evidence for understanding).

  • Reflection on benefits to work collaboratively

  • Participants review these sources for next Zoom meeting discussion (Facilitator sends an email with the links)

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WEEK 6: Making meaningful connections Zoom meeting for discussion on 03/27/24

  • Discussion-How can you help your students to adopt a growth mindset? How do you feel about your role as a facilitator?

  • Reflection/Self-evaluation on your engagement in this course.

  • Final submission of ePortfolio, which will serve as a model for students (Collecting evidence for understanding). ​​

Beyond this course - 08/01/24-05/30/25

  • Facilitator will collect evidence of what is working or what is not through the last reflection of participants' ePortfolio to make improvements for refresher sessions.

  • PL sessions will remain open for ongoing communication, collaboration, or production for the rest of the year.

  • Refresher courses will take place in person at the beginning of the fall semester.

  • In-Person sessions once per month for assistance in challenges with the implementation of ePortfolios and feedback of what is working and what is not.

  • Teachers may sign up for one-on-one assistance with instructors when needed.

Schedule/Time

PL sessions slide deck

REFERENCES

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Daniels, K. (November 6, 2013).Empowering the teacher technophobe. TEDxBurnsvilleED. Retrieve from

https://youtu.be/puiNcIFJTCU

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Gulamhussein, A. (2013). Teaching the Teachers Effective Professional Development in an Era of High Stakes Accountability. Center for Public Education. Retrieved from https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NBgyzzfGs6VrNjeJRDZLnipZPGeGMDF9?usp=sharing

 

Harapnuik, D. (n.d.). It's About Learning. www.harapnuik.org

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Heather Hill. (2015). Review of The Mirage: Confronting the Hard Truth about Our Quest for Teacher Development. Harvard Graduate School of Education. Retrieved from http://www.greatlakescenter.org/docs/Think_Twice/TT-Hill-TNTP.pdf

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TNTP. (2015). The Mirage: Confronting the Hard Truth About Our Quest for Teacher Development. Retrieved from http://tntp.org/publications/view/evaluation-and-development/the-mirage-confronting-the-truth-about-our-quest-for-teacher-development

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