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Staff Development Plan
Staff Development Plan
Staff Development Plan
Carrie Doker
FRIT 7734
Fall 2020
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General Audience
The primary audience for the Instructional Design professional development will be 44 K-5th
grade teachers at Sugar Hill Elementary School (SHES). The certified teachers who are a part of
this audience range in age from their mid-20s to late-50s with a variety of experience levels,
qualifications, technology ability, and subject area backgrounds. The students they serve vary
from ages 5-11 in grades kindergarten through fifth grade.
Problem Identification
According to our Local School Plan of Improvement (LSPI) goals, SHES would like all students
to score 70% or better on reading unit assessments during the 2020-2021 school year. In order to
help students become successful, teachers must use the Interactive Read Aloud and Mini-lesson
Framework Models adopted by Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS) during the 2019-2020
school year. The lesson plan incorporates a read aloud, connection to a previous lesson, teaching
point, modeling, active engagement, and a link to students’ learning. The mini-lesson concept is
new to many teachers within our school.
As we move forward this year, we are also expected to integrate the new reading-focused
program GCPS’s Media Services has purchased called Biblionasium. Biblionasium is a resource
that fosters excitement for reading and aligns with reading promotion for students. As we receive
training on how to implement the mini-lesson framework and interactive read aloud model, there
is a lack of knowledge on how to access and use Biblionasium. The expected outcome of this
instruction will be to implement this reading program into classroom teachers’ lessons to
increase students’ overall excitement in reading. Implementing Biblionasium can positively
affect and improve students’ reading experiences and motivation to read; thus, improving unit
assessment grades.
Instructional Goals
The goal for instruction is for K-5th grade teachers to learn how to access and use the
Biblionasium Reading Program via the Destiny Media Catalog to promote healthy reading habits
for their students.
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Teachers will learn how to log into Biblionasium from their Destiny Media
Catalog.
Teachers will receive an introduction or overview to Biblionasium.
Teachers will learn how to put books on their digital bookshelf.
Teacher will learn ideas on how to challenge their students with reading goals.
Teachers will learn how to generate reports for individual students, challenges,
reading logs, and bookshelf books.
Able to log into their GCPS employee portal account to access Destiny Media
Catalog
hands-on learning as preferred to lecture. They also expressed the added pressure they feel with
COVID, online teaching, the framework models, and the various new tools implemented for
digital teaching; leaving them feeling overwhelmed and exhausted with all the new items they
have to learn and/or implement in their teaching.
Group Characteristics
The target group of teachers all teach at Sugar Hill Elementary School in Sugar Hill, GA. Most
teachers are focused on learning about Biblionasium, but probably not at the same desire they
would on a typical year. The school community is composed of a diverse population of students.
Our population consists of 41.5% White/Anglo, 17.3% African American, 11.3% Asian, 24.3%
Latino/Hispanic, 6% mixed, and .3% Arab/Middle Eastern.
I, Carrie Doker, will serve as the subject matter expert for this instructional plan. I have a
Doctorate Degree, and I am working toward a certification in School Library Media. I have
taught kindergarten, second, and fourth grades. I am currently in my second year as the media
specialist at Sugar Hill Elementary. I have taken multiple trainings on how to use Biblionasium
from our Media Services office at the county level.
Task Diagram
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4B. Under “Start a new challenge,” select a reading challenge for students based on a
current reading standard or choose a fun challenge to encourage students to read.
First, pick a classroom, group, or student for the new challenge.
Second, give the challenge a fun name.
Then select the category or the books for the challenge.
If you prefer, give a deadline to the challenge.
Lastly, save the challenge.
Terminal Objective 5: Open Reports from the bookmark
Enabling Objectives
5A. Choose a report that you would like to print.
Wish list
Favorites
Book Reviews
Individual Students
Challenges
Reading Logs
5B. Select all students or those students from whom you want a report.
5C. Export report, which will be sent to the registered email address in Biblionasium.
Instructional Sequence
Teachers will Students” The teacher will learn how to Open Students while their students’
use the within Open Students within using Biblionasium bookshelf, check
directions to Biblionasium. Biblionasium to later teach to to optimize their one student’s
Open Students students. reading instruction bookshelf, and
from the 3A. Click on Books to add in the classroom. send one student a
bookmark in books for your group message.
Biblionasium. (students)
3B. Click on Students to
select a student
*View this student’s
bookshelf, active challenges,
awards, logs, and reviews
*Send this student a
message
3C. Click on Challenges
*View the challenges that
already exist for your students
by clicking on their title
3D. Read and approve reviews
your students have created
Lesson 4: To learn how Objective 4: Teachers are being Teachers will
Teachers will to “Open The teacher will learn how to taught how to use to think of one of
use the Challenge” Open Challenge within Open Challenge their standards in
directions to within Biblionasium to later teach to while using any content area
Open Challenge Biblionasium. students. Biblionasium to and create one
from the 4A. Under “My challenges,” optimize their reading challenge
bookmark in view the current challenges reading instruction for their students.
Biblionasium. you or others have created for in the classroom.
your students or the entire
group.
4B. Under “Start a new
challenge,” select a reading
challenge for students based
on a current reading standard
or choose a fun challenge to
encourage students to read.
*First, pick a classroom,
group, or student for the new
challenge.
*Second, give the challenge
a fun name.
*Then select the category or
the books for the challenge.
*If you prefer, give a
deadline to the challenge.
*Lastly, save the challenge.
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Assessments
1. Teachers will complete an online survey to determine their viewpoint on current
technology programs within our school.
2. Teachers will go through the steps of Biblionasium and put books on their bookshelf,
send one message to a student, create a reading challenge, and export a report.
3. Teachers will be able to apply their knowledge of Biblionasium by using the videos and
then showing their students how to use it.
4. Lastly, teachers will complete a “Biblionasium Exit Ticket” evaluation.
The introduction for this professional development will be presented using Google Slides. The
presentation will be held whole group and one grade level at a time. During the instruction,
teachers will be using their laptops to explore Biblionasium individually as I provide directions
for each objective. After each objective is taught, teachers will have time for review and to
discuss any questions they have about Biblionasium. At the end of the presentation, teachers will
be guided to the videos in the shared Google Folder that they will share with students about how
to use Biblionasium. At the conclusion of their instruction with students, teachers will complete a
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