School Type: Public	School Setting: Rural
Level: K-12	School Design: Traditional
Content Presented By:
NEIRTEC, Northeast & Islands Regional Technology in Education Consortium

Results

During the 2002-03 academic year in Macon Ridge, Louisiana, online professional development was delivered to 310 teachers, with 14 workshops offered through the EdTech Leaders Online (ETLO) program by the Education Development Center (EDC).

Now in the fifth year of the program, the original group of Macon Ridge teachers is taking over the facilitation of the courses altogether. They are also working with EDC's Center for Online Professional Education (COPE) to expand the range of online course offerings. The clear goal is local capacity building, as district staff grow into online professional development specialists who serve as resources for their own communities.

Positive results can be seen in evaluations of classes taught by teachers who participated in online workshops through ETLO. Classroom observations by external evaluators are conducted annually to determine implementation levels. The purpose is to determine technology applications and student and teacher skill and comfort in using techniques learned during professional development. A pre-/post-project comparison study is underway.

Evaluators visited 61 classrooms in 1999-00 and an additional 60 in 2000-01. Of the 61 classes observed, 36, or 59% of the lessons, were rated as satisfactory on the 45 attributes assessed during the teaching/ learning process. Fifteen, or 24.6% of the lessons, were found to exhibit satisfactory and/or exemplary performance, while 10, or 16.4% of the classes, exhibited the need for achievement of certain indicators assessed within the lesson.

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