Objective+14


 * Objective 14: Assess staff development needs and prepare a plan to meet those needs**

//Science// - Additional lab materials, //Business Department// - iPads, Math - Additional professional development opportunities, //P.E.// - Equipment for games (balls, tennis rackets, etc.), //SPED// - More collaboration time with regular ed teachers. Assigned schedules with their content specific classrooms.
 * Date || Time started || Time ended || Number of hours || Description of activities ||
 * 09/14/12 ||= 1:00 ||= 3:00 ||= 2 || Surveyed the department chairs at John S. Battle to assess staff development needs. ||
 * 09/15/12 ||= 11:00 ||= 1:00 ||= 2 || Compiled survey results and completed reflections. ||
 * Reflections and learning |||||||| **Staff development needs**: //Social Studies// - supplemental materials for the new textbooks. //English// - The Hunger Games book series

After surveying department chairs regarding staff development needs it became apparent that teachers would like more chances to collaborate within their departments. Most staff members replied that they learned more from sharing with their coworkers than from attending professional development sessions that were sponsored by Washington County Public Schools. It was surprising to learn that funding for technology and teaching materials was not mentioned more often by the teachers and their department chairs. Additional planning time was a popular response from the survey.

if needs are being met and become aware of any new requests. At the beginning of each school money will be budgeted to be spent by each department on professional development or items that could be used in the classroom. Monthly faculty meetings would be reduced in time to allow for additional collaboration in the departments. A majority of the information that is given out during faculty meetings could be emailed to the staff or released on YouTube video which would give the staff more time to meet and discuss teaching strategies. Another way to assess staff development needs would be to send out a survey once each semester to determine continuing needs. Money would be allotted in the school budget to allow for attendance at professional development conferences throughout the school year.
 * Multi-year plan**: To meet staff development needs an administrator must attend the department meetings monthly to see

monthly meetings with randomly selected students, observations, and annual evaluations from the observations and Talent Ed webpages. ||
 * Annual assessments**: Staff development would be assessed by SOL scores, grades of students from each teacher's class,
 * Reading(s) |||||||| Moore, R. (2006, October). //Staff development for educators by educators//. Paper presented at the Solutions, etc. Conference, Roanoke, VA. ||