Evaluating Your Professional Development Efforts How will you know the training has worked? This entire process started with the school or district technology plan. That plan includes goals and objectives to be addressed by professional development activities as well as benchmarks to demonstrate the effectiveness of the activities. The professional development plan should include a method for collecting data. The school may already have a variety of methods for collecting data. Lesson plans, gradebooks, call logs, and paper-based forms can be augmented by technology-supported items, such as electronic portfolios, discussion lists, databases of digital resources, and server statistics showing use patterns. Determine and budget for data collection in order to evaluate progress on meeting goals. Costs incurred above and beyond the regular day-to-day workings of the school, such as additional personnel to collect or analyze data, must be considered. How will you evaluate the effectiveness of this activity? Teachers will utilize new lesson plan format devised by technology committee. Teachers will review their lesson plans and resulting classroom activities with members of their departments twice each grading period. What resources will this activity require? What resources can you supply? What resources do you lack? Costs for remaining resources (People, time, equipment, facilities, other) A lesson planning format that easily identifies technology integration One hour department-based planning time every three weeks Committee will develop plan Half-day teacher work days in calendar none none