Greenhaus Education and Other "Effects"

I have had a bad week and was feeling a little uninspired.  I even missed my weekly #edchat, so feel disconnected from my PLN.  Which perhaps explains my very negative reaction to the article from Education Week entitled " The Ed.D. Dilemma: Why Harvard's Decision Could Harm the Quest for Teacher Professionalism".   And actually, it's not the article, it's Harvard's decision and the implication that an Ed.D. is not as worthy as a Ph.D. My thoughts - well, my thoughts are not appropriate so I will keep them to myself. Here is the line that got my ire up: "Within the field of education, Ed.D. programs had for a long time been assumed to be inferior to Ph.D. programs, and only marginally useful to the improvement of educational practice, policy, and administration."  Now, granted, past tense is used here and Ted Purinton was just stating a fact that is unfortunately, quite true. From my own personal experience, when I tell people I am getti...

I have found some helpful articles and resources in my research today that I just wanted to pass along. Those of you who are trying to find ways to help teachers integrate technology might be interested in these. 1) Collaborative Apprenticeship: A New Role for the Technology Coordinator in Teacher's Professional Development by Glazer and Page 2) A series of Ed Tech Professional Development by Judi Harris One Size Doesn't Fit All: Customizing Educational Technology Professional Development      Part 1: Choosing ETPD Goals      Part 2: Choosing ETPD Models      Part 3: Combining Goals & Models to Fit Teachers' Characteristics and Needs      Part 4: Evaluating ETPD Designs 3) Twenty Everyday Ways to Model Technology Use from Heather Wolpert-Garwon I will post more as I find them or as I feel they might be of use.

I realize I haven't posted in a few days, but in the midst of my traveling I am also trying to read research on professional development for my dissertation literature review outline draft due on Monday.  It's so time consuming and a little brain-draining. Just a quick summary of the consistent message I am getting: 1) Professional development needs to be content focused and relevant to the reality of what the teachers actually are doing in their classroom.  Seems logical, but you would be amazed at how many times in my own experience, so I assume in many teachers experiences, I attended professional development that absolutely had no connection to what I did or needed in my classroom. 2) Professional development should include collaboration with others, reflection, and active learning.  Just like students, we need to be hands-on, try it out, talk about what worked and what didn't, and relate to our own understandings. 3) Professional development should be long-term ...