Scenario response

Needs Assessment, Professional Development, and Program Evaluation

Assignment:

According to your occupation/profession (i.e. pre-k-12 or adult learning focus), select one of the three micro-scenarios presented below. Use Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or other word processer to create a document that responds to the questions and descriptions asked for in that scenario. The final product must be a document in APA style Seventh Ed. AND must have at least one citation and reference for each one of the topics: Needs Assessment, Adult Learning, and Program Evaluation.

For this assignment, you should refer to the literature provided AND the literature and resources you found and listed in your annotated bibliography, in particular, the items related to Needs Assessment, Adult Learning and Training and Program Evaluation.

K-12 Teacher

You have been working as a classroom teacher for the past 10 years and are a recognized leader in the area of technology adoption and integration. You recently received a new position as an Instructional Technologist for the district. Each year the district offers professional development regarding a variety of technology integration instructional strategies and technology tools. You are responsible for developing and evaluating the offerings related to technology. Since you have been a teacher in the district for the past 10 years, you are aware that although your colleagues would find the workshop very informative in terms of applying new strategies to their teaching practice, you have often mentioned (and heard other colleagues mention) in the past frustration about the timing of these workshops. “Don’t the district staff members realize how much time it takes to prepare a classroom and instructional materials at the beginning of the school year? Teachers only return three days in advance of students and then one entire day is allotted to the technology integration professional development.”

Using the Needs Assessment articles provided AND the resources you have gathered, respond to the following by providing specific strategies or approaches including citations to the resources selected:

Describe strategies or methods (three or more) that you would employ to develop needs assessment that would gather information that would help you decide the most appropriate or needed technology topics to address through professional development. In other words; using your understanding of a needs assessment, how would you find out what the teachers might need to better support their classroom technology integration strategies?
How would your needs assessment provide you with information on the best approach or format for offering professional development?
Using the Adult Learning Theory articles provided AND the resources you have gathered, respond to the following by providing specific strategies or approaches including citations to the resources selected:

List specific instructional strategies or methods (three or more) based upon adult learning theory for addressing the needs of adult learners that will work with the delivery format you are proposing. In other words; how will you design your professional development to use adult learning theory to best engage your colleagues?
Using the Program Evaluation articles provided AND the resources you have gathered, respond to the following by providing specific strategies or approaches including citations to the resources selected:

List specific assessment strategies or methods (three or more) for collecting data to determine the success or areas for improvement of the proposed professional development program and delivery format of the program. In other words; describe how you will know your professional development was effective?
Provide Reference List: List references in APA format for all of the resources cited: 1) needs assessment, 2) adult learning theory or principles, AND 3) program evaluation.

Higher/Adult Education

You have been working for about 5 years as a curriculum developer and instructor for adult learners and have developed a reputation in your department for well-designed materials. In recognition of your skills and experience, you have recently been promoted to be an Instructional Designer within a different division of your department. Now you are tasked with creating materials for outside companies who hire your department to complete online curricula in subject matter outside of your expertise. In your first assignment, a company communicates through your supervisor what materials they want to be created and on which online platform it will be delivered. They ask you to attend a one-day, face-to-face workshop to get a sense of how the course is currently taught so that you can convert it to online form.

When you get to the workshop, you observe that the instructor covers too much material, at least for you as a novice, and there are many assumptions the instructor makes about learners’ prior knowledge. After the workshop, you try to create an outline of the curriculum. You realize there is a lot you do not know about the goals of the course or the intended learners, but the outside company thinks they have given you enough information to start creating materials and would like a prototype in a month. Your supervisor seems satisfied with “giving the company what they want” and not rocking the boat, but you are worried the materials will not be effective without an adequate needs assessment and evaluation plan.

Questions:

Using the Needs Assessment articles provided AND the resources you have gathered, respond to the following by providing specific strategies or approaches including citations to the resource selected:

Given your lack of understanding about the course, what approaches (three or more) would you take to gather information that could help identify the goals or objectives of the course?
In addition to determining appropriate goals, also describe how you would collect data regarding the most important topics to address through the course, considering that the face-to-face workshop you observed had too broad a scope.
Using your Adult Learning Theory articles provided AND the resources you have gathered, respond to the following by providing specific strategies or approaches including citations to the resource selected:

List specific instructional strategies or approaches (three or more) that will help you develop curriculum that will be appropriate for the needs of the adult learners who will be taking this course and that align with the goals you are proposing.
Using Program Evaluation articles provided AND the resources you have gathered, respond to the following by providing specific strategies or approaches including citations to the resource selected:

List specific assessment strategies or methods (three or more) for designing an evaluation tool that will collect data to determine the success or areas for improvement of the proposed course.
Provide Reference List: List references in APA format for all of the resources cited: 1) needs assessment, 2) adult learning theory or principles, AND 3) program evaluation.

Military

The United States Air Force is going to receive a new aircraft in one month. You have been assisting contractors for the past 5 years building the aircraft and attending classes to learn how to troubleshoot problems when they arise. You have all of the tools and knowledge to repair anything that breaks. The air base that is receiving the new aircraft has zero qualified individuals who have worked on this specific airframe. Base leadership is extremely nervous about an aircraft breaking and not being able to fly missions. Because of your experience, you are able to prepare maintainers to use new tools and train on an aircraft that will be available to maintenance for the next two weeks prior to flying daily missions. Maintenance supervision is worried about doing basic pre/post-flight inspections and is seeking training on high percentage break components. The maintainers are frightened because they fear they will work 12-hour shifts until problems are solved. Personnel are scattered on 3 different shifts covering 24 hours. The Training aircraft will be landing in 5 days. As soon as it lands, all personnel want to begin training as quickly as possible.

Using the Needs Assessment resources you have gathered, respond to the following questions providing specific strategies or approaches including citations to the resources selected:

Given the frustration you are aware of regarding the timing of these aircraft arrivals, what approaches (three or more) could you take to gather data that could be shared with Base leadership, maintenance supervision, and maintainers related to the best approach or format for offering training?
In order to determining an appropriate format, also describe how you would collect data regarding the most appropriate or needed maintenance qualification topics to address through the training.
Using the Adult Learning Theory articles provided AND the resources you have gathered, respond to the following question providing specific strategies or approaches including citations to the resources selected:

Provide instructional strategies or approaches (three or more) that will help you develop curriculum that will be appropriate for addressing the needs of adult learners that will work with the delivery format you are proposing.
Using the Program Evaluation articles provided AND the resources you have gathered, respond to the following question providing specific strategies or approaches including citations to the resources selected:

List assessment strategies or methods (three or more) for designing an evaluation tool that will collect data to determine the success or areas for improvement of the proposed training and delivery format of the program.
Provide Reference List: List references in APA format for all of the resources cited: 1) needs assessment, 2) adult learning theory or principles, AND 3) program evaluation.