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Instructional Modules for Professional learning Responding to Opportunities and Valuing Educators (IMPROVE)
 

Instructional Modules for Professional learning Responding to Opportunities and Valuing Educators (IMPROVE) is a peer-reviewed virtual professional development resource. Modules within the resource are collaboratively authored by candidates in their final semester of coursework in the EdD in Curriculum & Instruction at Gardner-Webb University and promote positive, data-informed, sustainable change in instructional practices or organizational structures to improve student learning at the K-12 level and beyond.

The learning cycle featured in the modules in this resource is based on the STAR Legacy Cycle developed by the IRIS Center (2013); http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/) and based on the work of Dr. John Branford and colleagues (National Research Council, 2000).

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  • Blended Learning: Intentional Personalized Instruction for All by Amy W. Fonseca, Andrew McCully, Amber Tuttle, and Sheila Wright

    Blended Learning: Intentional Personalized Instruction for All

    Amy W. Fonseca, Andrew McCully, Amber Tuttle, and Sheila Wright

    This Professional Learning Module (PLM) was designed to support educators in learning more about Blended Learning, the related models, and information for implementing this effective, enriched, and student-driven instructional framework. Blended learning serves to combine the traditional instruction and feel of a brick-and-mortar school with online learning. This PLM reviews the four overarching models of Blended Learning: 1) rotation models, 2) the flex model, 3) the a la carte model, and 4) the enriched virtual model. The module also provides examples of Blended Learning for K-12 classrooms and covers The Blended Learning Teacher Competencies to support proper implementation. Educators, administrators, and other educational stakeholders will find this PLM helpful.

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  • Collective Teacher Efficacy by Annie McEntyre, Stephanie Revis, Helena Vanhorn, and Gina Gold

    Collective Teacher Efficacy

    Annie McEntyre, Stephanie Revis, Helena Vanhorn, and Gina Gold

    This professional learning module (PLM) was designed for those in leadership roles in educational organizations who desire to examine the effect of collective teacher efficacy for school improvement purposes. This module defines collective teacher efficacy as it applies to educational settings and impacts student learning. School leaders will learn research-based conditions and practices that have been found to foster collective efficacy in schools. Collective Teacher Efficacy Professional Learning Module is aligned with the North Carolina Standards for School Executives, Professional Standards for Educational Leaders, and Teacher Leader Model Standards.

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  • Deconstructing the Standards by Melissa Y. Pollard and Seon S. Sloley

    Deconstructing the Standards

    Melissa Y. Pollard and Seon S. Sloley

    The purpose of this Professional Learning Module (PLM) is to improve teacher understanding of academic standard deconstruction. We created this professional learning module to assist educators in better understanding how to deconstruct standards. In this PLM, you will find information about:

    1.The need for deconstruction

    2.The deconstruction process

    3. Identifying learning Targets

    4. Using a graphic organizer

    5. Common assessments aligned to standards

    We hope that both educators and district-level personnel will find this PLM instrumental in the training process of deconstructing standards. In unpacking, repacking, and organizing standards, teachers will develop a better understanding of what the standards are explicitly stating what isrequired of students academically. The deconstructing process will also give educators the opportunity to create quality assessments for students in improving mastery across content areas.

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  • Evidence-Based Reading Interventions for Middle and High School Teachers by Brittany Evans, Beverly Hart, and MaShonda Surratt

    Evidence-Based Reading Interventions for Middle and High School Teachers

    Brittany Evans, Beverly Hart, and MaShonda Surratt

    Welcome to Evidence-Based Reading Practices. This module is designed to help middle and high school teachers intervene with struggling readers in their regular education classrooms. This module will take you approximately three hours to complete. During that time, you will learn what to do when students are missing the necessary foundational skills to become skilled readers.

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  • Self-Mentoring: Discovering the Mentor Within by Lisa Savage and Pamela Williams

    Self-Mentoring: Discovering the Mentor Within

    Lisa Savage and Pamela Williams

    This professional learning module (PLM) was created to help educators, including classroom teachers, administrators, and instructional support staff learn about self-mentorship. The module will describe the concept of self-mentoring as a process for engaging in self-directed professional and personal growth. Districts may find it beneficial to use this PLM to train educators on how self-mentoring can be used as a leadership development tool for improving their professional and instructional practices.

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  • Travel Agent vs. Tour Guide: A Passport to Student Engagement by Alexis Greer, Demia Johnson, Jenee Peace, and Christopher Scruggs

    Travel Agent vs. Tour Guide: A Passport to Student Engagement

    Alexis Greer, Demia Johnson, Jenee Peace, and Christopher Scruggs

    This module is designed for all teachers (elementary, middle, and high) that have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic through virtual and/or hybrid instruction and are currently teaching in a K-12 setting. This module will provide resources and information related to planning authentic learning tasks and re-engaging students! This module will take you approximately 4 hours to complete. The focus of this module is to provide introductory information, examples of high-yield strategies, and resources for future self-paced inquiry.

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  • A Guide to Standards-Based Learning by Geneva Bell, Sarah Rector, Elizabeth Schrecengost, and Beth Washle

    A Guide to Standards-Based Learning

    Geneva Bell, Sarah Rector, Elizabeth Schrecengost, and Beth Washle

    This learning module educates parents/guardians and teachers new to the practice to understand what standards-based learning is, why a school system would use it, how to know when students are learning the standards, and the difference from traditional learning.

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  • Compassionate Care: Working with Students with ACEs by Leah Massey Huttlinger and Andrea Gardner Nordberg

    Compassionate Care: Working with Students with ACEs

    Leah Massey Huttlinger and Andrea Gardner Nordberg

    This Professional Learning Module (PLM) was created for educators to learn more about adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and the negative impact trauma has on student learning. Participants in the PLM will learn about ACEs, the brain science related to trauma, behaviors associated with ACEs in the classroom, strategies to help mitigate the impact of ACEs in the classroom. Participants will have the opportunity to apply these strategies to real-life situations within the PLM. The PLM was meant to be completed independently, in small groups, or as whole-group faculty training. The option to submit a certificate for CEUs is provided upon completion of the PLM.

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