“Rapid prototyping involves the development of a working model of an instructional product that is used early in a project to assist in the analysis, design, development and evaluation of an instructional innovation” (Reiser & Dempsey 179). An example of rapid prototyping is storyboarding. Rapid Prototyping can be used in the education
al field by reducing cycle time without sacrificing product quality. While the teacher is in the beginning stages of seeing if a new project or theme will work, they might make a prototype to see if and how it will all be put together.
As a military consultant one of their jobs is to do trainings and a use technology a lot however, sometimes you do not have electronic access, most times you do in today’s society but there are occasions you do not. Another way you could present this training with technology, but no electronic access is going wireless, having online courses and videocasts for the military to take while they do not have any electricity.
The Step-Up-To-Excellence methodology (SUTE) is a process methodology designed to help change leaders in school districts create and sustain whole district improvement. GSTE is Guidance System for Transforming Education, a process model for facilitating systemic change. To show teachers both of them in a staff development meeting us could do a PowerPoint showing the differences in the two methods and then have the staff members split into two groups and have them come up with an example of SUTE methodology and GSTE model.
A good institution has support for its faculty and provides faculty development opportunities to grow and learn. Here are three different universities that I looked at about faculty development.
University #1 UNT
- What are the different names used for faculty development? Professional Development or Leadership Development
- What division is it under? The Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
- What services does it offer? Workshops, conferences, and on-campus meetings
- How often are programs given and what specifically are they? ACE fellows, CLEAR, and Leadership Texas
University #2 Eastfield
- What are the different names used for faculty development? Professional Development, Staff Development
- What division is it under? Office of Organizational and Staff Development
- What services does it offer? Convocation, face-to-face, online
- How often are programs given and what specifically are they? Convocation, day/day of service, RAIN, EOP, FERPA
University #3 Texas
- What are the different names used for faculty development? Professional Development
- What division is it under? The Office of the Dean of Faculties and Associate Provost
- What services does it offer? Online and face-to-face training/development
- How often are programs given and what specifically are they? DoF-CTE (6-8 workshops during the Fall and Spring semesters), Orientation, CTE, ITS
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