Face-to-Face Staff Development Needs Assessment Before creating my staff development unit, I conducted a needs assessment of the faculty at Fannin County High School to see what types of training they would find most helpful to them. An email was sent out to the entire faculty, asking for feedback on the types of training they would like and what they would most likely attend a training for. They were given a choice of 3 types of training: using technology to help with classroom management, technology to help with time management, or technology to help with lesson plans and student engagement. The chart below shows a visual representation of the responses the teachers sent back, which led to the decision of which type of unit to create.

The results were shared with the media specialist, Mr. Blake Turner, and we discussed what types of tools might be useful for the teachers. Knowing that a majority of them wanted help with student engagement and lesson planning, I mentioned the introduction of a flipped classroom. This teaching method involves flipping the homework and classroom assignments in order to help students complete engagement and enrichment activities in the classroom, while experiencing the content from home through instructional videos. Mr. Turner was very impressed with the idea, and took it to the administration for approval, but it was rejected due to time constraints as well as a concern that not enough students would be able to access the material online from home. We talked of a few less invasive tools that would be simple to implement and not require students to have outside online access to benefit from them. I introduced the benefits of screencasting for both teacher and student use in the classroom and we got an approval from the administration to deliver a face-to-face unit on the use of screencasting. _1490876511.xls