Successful New Teacher Program 
                                                     By:  Sara DeVoogd & Betsi Roelof

Project at a Glance :

This project provides intentional professional development for new teachers at the Ottawa Area Intermediate School's Careerline Tech Center. This is an ongoing three year project.  
 
Driving Question:

How do we create adaptable new teacher program to better equip educators to succeed in a dynamic learning landscape?            

Standards:

• Classroom Management
• Instructional Delivery

         MDE Core Teaching Practices
         Standards for Professional Learning

​Team / Culture Building:

• First, divide new teachers by experience level… Cohort 1, 2, and 3
• Hopes Fears Norms protocol​

Entry Event:

• Cohort 1:  Career and Technical Education Opening Doors
• Cohort 2:  Alumni /seasoned voices video
• Cohort 3:  Teaching inspiration video - Rita Pierson, Teach like a Champion ​​

Stakeholders:

Empathy Building:

Inquiry / Need to Knows:

• MI Safe Schools: Michigan’s 2020-21 Return to School Roadmap
• Size of cohorts
• Budget
• Topics covered in NT training 
• MDE NT Requirements (hours/days)
• Balance of inputs
• Interview other programs created for teacher prep - Contact List
• Goals/Purpose program​
• 2019 - 2020 NT Cohort Feedback
• Current Practice
• Genesee ISD NT Modules
• MDE NT Technical Toolkit
• The Work of Teaching and the Challenge for Teacher Education
• Teaching Works - University of Michigan
• Michigan Core Teaching Practices
• Core Practices and Pedagogies of Teacher Education

Incubation:

• Read the article titled New Teacher Immersion .
• Record only the exact quote on Flipgrid using the green "Record a response" button
• Respond to each of the 4 other quotes (and any comments) with thoughts or questions
• Record your reasoning for the quote shared after listening to the 4 responses to your original quote
• Listen to the reasoning provided for each of the original quotes
• Sticky note brain dump
• Small group discussions
• Learning Labs
• Idea Quota protocol to brainstorm solution ideas.​

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Solution Building:

• Affinity Mapping
• Dot Voting with different colored dots for each cohort of what should be included
• Storyboard the process towards solution

Critique and Revision: 

• Filtering and Objectives​ 
• Where is the Love
  • Modification: identified from themes resulting from interviews and Save the Last Word
• Charrette protocol to get feedback on solution ideas
• Critical Friends​​

Authentic Audience:

• ​Curriculum Team - Jacquie Rehkopf  and David Ladd

Final Presentation:

• The Pitch - followed by:
• I like, I wonder, I have an Idea
• Prototype:
  • Slide Deck: CTC New Teacher Program
  • Table: CTC New Teacher Program​

Click here for teacher's full plan.

​Reflection and Feedback:

• Combination of NUF Test and I Like, I Wonder, I have an Idea
• Start, Stop, Continue or SWOT Analysis

The teacher's Journey through PBL on Padlet.

Meet the Educator:
Betsi Roelofs and Sara DeVoogd are instructional coaches at Careerline Tech Center at the OAISD.  

     "We appreciate the flexibility that Design Thinking has given us, as well as the modeling of different protocols to use when working with instructors."  ~B. Roelofs & S. DeVoogd