Follow-up

Follow-up is required by the Florida Professional Development protocol. Follow-up is provided to ensure that teachers apply the skills and knowledge gained through the delivered professional development.

Inservice points cannot be awarded until follow-up is complete.

Send written documentation of follow-up to Staff Development or other trainer as applicable through email or truck mail.

Be sure to always include your name, the date, the name of the training you attended and your school.

One follow-up option is required for each training. The trainer retains documentation of follow-up for auditing purposes.

Collaborative Follow-up

Peer-coaching --- partner with another teacher(s):

	pre-conference - identify learning goal from the training
	observation
	post-conference with feedback
	reflection
	adjustments, if necessary

Develop an Action Plan as a team. Include in the plan:

	the information from the training that you will use back at your school site
	a timeline for implementation with students
	how will the team know if it has impacted student achievement

Study group or learning community --- team or department instructional conversation regarding:

	strategy we learned from the training
	implementation with students
	samples of student work
	where do we go from here
	send documentation of conversation, participants (list) and resulting plan

Could be combined with the Inquiry Process below.

Inquiry Process includes:

	developing a meaningful question to research in your classroom that relates to the training you attended
	determining the data collection method appropriate to your question
	collecting and analyzing student or classroom data
	summarizing your findings to see what you've learned
	sharing your discoveries with your colleagues
	reflecting on the question, process and findings
	making changes and adjustments, if needed

As a result of engaging in the inquiry process, a new question may emerge and the cycle may begin again.

Individual Follow-up

Develop an Action Plan as an individual. Include in the plan:

	the information from the training that you will use back at your school site
	a timeline for implementation with students
	how will I know if it has impacted student achievement

Write a letter to your administrator. Include in the letter:

	explain what you learned in the training
	how you plan to implement it in your classroom
	what you think the outcome for your students will be

Complete a KWL or other graphic organizer (concept map, flow chart, etc.) that illustrates:

	the information that you gained from the training
	how you will implement the training, could include lesson plan
	how you will know that the information has been transferred to the students

Reflective narrative includes:

	what you learned at the training
	how you will apply it
	what question(s) remains
	resources needed for further information

Classroom walk-through (for administrators or CWT-trained personnel ONLY)

	planning to include look-fors from the training
	series of walk-throughs
	collection of data
	analysis of data, patterns & trends
	action plan with faculty

Electronic Follow-up choices

Follow-up strategies may include the use of blogs, web resources, email conversations (threads), podcasts, and other technology applications. These would be included with specific inservice opportunities and you would be informed of their use at the training.

last modified 08/07/2008		For web comments, contact: Joyce Thompson thompsj@sbac.edu