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Professional Development- Transliteracy Required

I designed my research to determine if teachers internalized what they learned from professional development. My target audience consisted of elementary school teachers like myself. I knew that professional development benefited me in three ways:

• It refueled my teacher tank
• It connected me with lifelong learners
• It provided me with tools that I could share with my students.

I was concerned that professional development lacking in clarity or not linked to student achievement while having undemanding objectives unrelated to work in the classroom demonstrated poorly designed fragmented professional development that could result in a decline in teacher productivity. This type of professional development would negatively impact both teachers and, ultimately, their students. I gathered teacher feedback and observations to determine the effectiveness of the professional development received and analyzed the correlation to student achievement.

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Action Research Project Overview -Take 2 of the video presented to Napa Learns December 2020 
 
My vision of my action research focused on how each professional development model would aid teachers and students in building a community that would promote collective teacher efficacy and student achievement.

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​Creating my logo tested my transliteracy skills and my creativity. Putting pen to paper, then drawing with the use of Adobe Spark to rendering an image with the aid of Autodesk Tinkercad to finally uploading and finalizing colors on Canva, all while keeping the intention of my logo in the forefront, was challenging. 

Take a look at my journey in the video to the right.

The Four Pillars of Practice is one of the instructional design models that incorporate the S.I.T.E. Model. The acronym S.I.T.E. stands for sociocultural, informational, technical, and educational. Connecting these subtexts benefits teachers as they plan for teaching in the classroom. I found the model also supports the planning of professional development. 

1. The Four Pillars of Practice, created by Minna Nummelin, Erica Gysbers, and myself, explains the foundation of this instructional design model. Each pillar supports the foundation needed to design effective lessons: Cognition and message design focused on the Individual

2. Connecting the Individual to the social and cultural context of the environment

3. Connecting the Individual to moral and political values

4. Focus on the aesthetic design of the experience created

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