'11-'12+NEHS+PD+Plan

** 1. ****Reflection:** The New Egypt High School’s overall focus for professional development during the 2010-2011 school year has been centered on the establishment of an effective PLC community within academic departments and across disciplines, the use of Differentiated Instruction (DI), the review of questioning practices, and the increased use of technology. The current system of communication for cross-curricular planning opportunities is that the fourth Monday of every month is dedicated to cross-curricular meetings. However, this has not been significantly effective and often times cancelled due to scheduling and holidays. Unfortunately, there are few opportunities for cross-curricular communication to occur within our own building. During the course of 2010-2011 school year, there was one, forty-five minute presentation about DI. A survey asked NEHS teachers to reflect on their use of DI. Sixty-five percent of teachers reported that they have implemented DI techniques. Twenty-eight percent said that there was no change in their implementation of DI. Three percent said that they don’t know how to use DI techniques. Overall, teachers wanted more DI professional development if it revolved around hands-on examples and subject-specific lessons. Questioning practices was addressed in one faculty meeting. Teachers were asked to bring an exam and identify the different levels of questioning in that exam. This conversation may have been more effective if more time had been dedicated to it. Professional development in technology was implemented through presentations by district employees on Web 2.0, Wikis, and Prezi. The current survey found that teachers increased their usage of these modes of technology. Additionally, 78% of teachers wanted more professional development on technology, but they wanted hands-on opportunities to make presentations.  a. To communicate effectively using listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills.  b. To solve problems using critical and creative thinking, and/or scientific and mathematical reasoning.  c. To recognize the impact of human beings in a diverse, global community.  d. To identify and access resources for further exploration. To better help our students obtain these abilities, professional development in the areas would be beneficial: 1. Technology Integration; 2. Questioning practice; 3. Motivating students.  · The sharing of products through technology – such as teacher presentations through Prezi.  · Internet based staff surveys written and tabulated by Facilitators and/or administrators.  · Observations including administrative walkthroughs and peer-observations  · Examinations of lesson plans, follow-up questions and student assessments by PLCs
 * New Egypt High School **
 * 1)  **Needs Assessment**: Goals of our students include the successful completion of the HSPA exam and graduation from high school. We also hope to prepare them for the challenges of an adult life and encourage them to become lifelong learners. To reach these goals, we believe that successful student achievement will be demonstrated by the following abilities:
 * 1)  **Professional Development Goals**: The goals for NEHS’s professional development for the 2011-2012 year are:
 * 2)  Increase the use of technology through hands-on opportunities.
 * 3)  Identify our current questioning practices and determine a philosophy regarding the nature of questions that should be incorporated into assessments such as final exams through subject-specific professional development opportunities.
 * 4)  Increase teacher’s abilities to use motivational questioning and techniques to reach unmotivated students.
 * 1)  **Professional Development Opportunities**: PD at the high school will be implemented using our existing facilitator and PLC system. We have common time that, with administrative support, can be set aside for these activities. Built into our calendar is 1.5 days of PD time that will be utilized to achieve our goals.
 * 1)  **Professional Development Resources**: To correlate our PD with student achievement, we will be able to utilize data from the HSPA. Data generated from surveys will be used to monitor the staff members’ opinions of the various PD activities. Numerous professional journals are available and an extensive library of relevant texts is available if needed. All staff have internet access and will therefore be able to participate in any collaborate efforts using Web 2.0 tools.
 * 1)  **Evaluation**: The effectiveness of our PD activities will be determined via the following: