Chicago Public School Teachers Presentation

CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS

DEMOGRAPHICS

CPS is the 3rd largest school district in the U.S

DEMOGRAPHICS FOR CPS TEACHERS
 CPS teacher statistics (source CPS website
2008-2009 school year; % by race 2007-2008
school year):
 Annual average teacher salary $74,839
 Total number of teachers 23,727
 African-American teachers 31.4%
 White 49%
 Latino 15%
 Asian-pacific islander 3.5%
 Native American 1%

DEMOGRAPHICS OF CPS TEACHERS
 State of Illinois teacher requirements:
 Teacher certificate (specific time periods allowed to acquire it;
college degree required)
 Endorsement
 Verification from state

 CPS Teacher requirements:
 Residency requirement (includes grandfathered in clause & high-
need areas such as special education exceptions)
 Criminal background investigation
 Certification licenses: nobody may be hired until he/she presents
proof of appropriate licensing
 Health investigations: TB test, post-employment health examination
 10 month work year; option to receive paychecks year round

COMMUNITY STANDARDS, RULES, & NORMS

 Illinois Professional Teaching Standards
 International Society for Technology in
Education
 Illinois State Board of Education—Illinois
Learning Standards
7 learning areas which have technology
components

ORGANIZATIONS THAT LEAD CPS TEACHERS

 Chicago Board of Education
 CPS

 CTU Chicago Teacher Union

 National Education Association

 Numerous professional specialty groups
(e.g., the Illinois Association of Gifted
Children)

 Chicago Board of Education
 www.cps.edu
 Located at 125 S. Clark St. (6th floor)
 Government of Chicago Public Schools (organization,
policy, finance)
 founded in 1840 and today is made up of 7 members who
are appointed by Daley
 meets once a month
 Vision: "We transform lives by building a foundation for
excellence and a pathway for every member of the CPS
community to dream, achieve and contribute to a global
society."


 Chicago Teacher Union
 Largest Local in the state
 Affiliated with AFL-CIO
 CTU Quest Center handles Professional Development
Institute
 CTU Facebook Page

COMPONENT ONE:
DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION

BLACK BOARD

ADVANTAGES:
 left in view of the
audience
DISADVANTAGES:
 anxiety-provoking for
facilitator with poor
handwriting or poor
spelling
 messy for teacher

XEROX COPIES

ADVANTAGES:
 easy and inexpensive
to make and update
 portable and
transportable

SLIDES

ADVANTAGES:
 professional in
appearance
 good for large groups
DISADVANTAGES:
 formal and impersonal
 shown in the dark
 not good for discussion
and interaction
 more difficult to update
than other visual aids
 require special equipment

FLIP CHARTS/POSTERS

ADVANTAGES:
• easy and inexpensive to
make and update
• portable and transportable
• left in view of the audience
• good for interaction with
the audience
DISADVANTAGES:
• unsuitable for large groups
• anxiety-provoking for
facilitator with poor
handwriting or poor
spelling

VIDEOS/DVDS

ADVANTAGES:
• professional in
appearance
• good for large or small
groups
DISADVANTAGES:
• more expansive than other
visual aids
• requires special equipment
• not good for discussion
and interaction
• require accurate cueing

OVERHEAD TRANSPARENCIES

ADVANTAGES:
• good for large groups
• easy to create
• easy to transport
• provide an informal
atmosphere
• open to interaction with
groups
• easy to update
DISADVANTAGES:
• impermanent; they yellow
with age
• require less common
equipment

COMPUTER PROJECTIONS (E.G., POWERPOINT™)

ADVANTAGES:
• professional in appearance
• evidence of preparation
• good for large or small group
• easy to integrate with classroom
discussion
• Animated
• up-to-date technology
• easy to update
DISADVANTAGES:
• require special equipment/facilities
• require initial training to create
• require significant time to create
• require basic graphics/composition
skills

WEBPAGES & E-MAIL
ADVANTAGES:
• professional in appearance
• evidence of preparation
• good for large or small group
• up-to-date technology
• easy to update
DISADVANTAGES:
• require special
equipment/facilities
• require significant time to
create
• require basic
graphics/composition skills

COMMUNICATING WITH PARENTS

 Ways for Teacher to disseminate information:
 Phone calls and Voicemail
 E-mail
 Newsletters
 Parent Portals
 School Website with Events Calendar
 Face-to-face Conferences
 Curriculum Night / Open House

 Teachers still rely heavily on
 Handouts
 Notes sent home with student
 Paper permission slips

 Most Information also translated into a Spanish version

CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS WEBSITE

 Has easy link titled “Resources for Parents”
which then has pop out menu for other links
including:
 School Information
 Calendars
 Directories
 Health and Flu Updates

 Pop out menu also includes ability to e-mail
Questions and / or provide Feedback on a
variety of topics.

SCHOOL WEBPAGE SHOWING PARENT DROP
DOWN OPTIONS

PARENT PORTAL

 Implemented in 2008 by CPS Information and Technology Services as a pilot program in 37
schools.
 Now used district wide.
 The Parent Portal is a web-based tool that allows parents to securely view a child’s grades and
attendance online.
 Parents with more than one child can view and manage their children’s information with a
single account.
 ―Triggers‖ feature allow you to register to receive e-mail or text notifications when the child is
absent or when his or her grades drop below a point that the parent can specify.
 Ability to communicate directly with a child’s teachers, enhancing the opportunity for parent-
teacher interaction.
 A Spanish language version was added this Fall.*
 Last year more than 30,000 parents signed up for Parent Portal accounts. Figures not
available yet for 2009 – 2010.*
 * Information based on Chicago Press Release dated September 17, 2009.

TEACHER INTERVIEW

Elizabeth Ryan
Glen Grove Elementary School
5th Grade Teacher

 Teacher for 11 years – 9 years in Chicago Public Schools and 2 years in Glenview District 34
 Feels that technology has improved her teaching by making it more dynamic.
 Document Camera and Laptop used daily for classroom instruction.
 Communicates regularly with parents via e-mail.
 Uses phone calls to parents infrequently – only a handful of calls a month.
 Keeps parents updated on classroom with a weekly e-mailed newsletter.
 Highlighted differences in technology from Chicago Public Schools to suburban Glenview
district.
 At CPS she received 1 e-mail from parent in 10 years.
 Suburban district she receives 10 – 15 a week from parents.
 Reports that e-mail is a fast, effective way to be in contact with parents. Most are parent
questions that she can quickly respond to.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
AND
IDEA SHARING AMONG TEACHERS

PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT AND IDEA SHARING AMONG
TEACHERS

Before 1990’s

 Teachers had to create their own networks for idea-
sharing
 Other teachers within the same school
 Friends who taught similar subjects
 Mentors (Golden Teachers)
 Teachers used materials that they received in college
 Teacher Magazines
 Publishing house catalogs

Information Dissemination: Professional
Development and Idea Sharing among Teachers

1990’s to present

 Higher standards for teachers and students
 New measurements of student performance
 Mounting efforts to increase professionalism of
teaching
 Professional teachers require professional development


Professional Development

 CPS has a mandatory professional development day
once every month
 Starts with a meeting of all teachers, where
administration distributes school-wide news
 Teachers then meet within their departments, for a
meeting run by the department head
 Teachers then meet within smaller groups, based
on the subjects they teach
 Technology training
 Teaching strategies to use in the classroom
 Keep up with changes in the curriculum


Professional Development

 CPDUs—Continuing Professional Development Units
 Credit for a broad range of activities:
 Action research
 Staff development programs
 Curriculum design
 Mentoring
 Supervision of a student teacher
 Workshops and seminars by approved providers


Mentoring

 New teachers have 2 years of mentoring provided by
experienced teachers who have received training to equip
them as mentors
 New teacher spend no less than 1.5 hours per week
in contact with the mentor assigned
 Classroom observation of the new teacher by the
mentor
 Other interactions between new teacher and mentor


Sharing Ideas through Technology

 Teacher Magazines
 Professional Journals
 Publishing House Catalogs
 Sample materials from workshops
 Teacher Websites
 Teacher –specific ―social networking‖ websites
 CPS First-Class (email, online conferencing, etc.)

TEACHER PRESERVATION, STORAGE, AND
DESTRUCTION OF INFORMATION

STUDENT ATTENDANCE

 Rosters were handwritten and then typed along with
blank attendance sheets
 Attendancewas given to the attendance office and then a
monthly summary was mailed to the board
 Rosters were printed out and given to teachers along
with blank attendance sheets
 Attendance was reported to attendance office on a
handwritten sheet, which they entered in the computer
system Student Information which went to the board of
education
 Only the attendance office had access to the Student
Information system

STUDENT ATTENDANCE CONT.
 For the past four years teachers have done their attendance on
the computer which goes directly to the attendance office and the
board of education
 Attendance is done on a system called Impact, and is supposed
to be done during the class period
 Computer attendance is mandatory, although many teachers still
take attendance on paper and then enter it into the computer at a
later time
 At the end of the school year rosters and attendance are
collected by the administration for long term storage in the
basement. (If you still take paper attendance)
 Since paper attendance is not mandatory, and Impact only saves
the attendance for the year, our administration is putting yearly
attendance on flash drives so that we still have records of
attendance.

STUDENT ATTENDANCE CONT.
 Conclusion: Using technology to store attendance has its advantages
and disadvantages
 Advantage: The attendance office and board of education get the
attendance much quicker and the computer calculates the attendance
statistics for them!!
 Advantage: Teachers don’t have to have a paper trail and it is less to carry
around
 -Advantage: There are fewer errors when reporting attendance because
teachers are doing attendance individually vs. the clerk in the attendance
office inputting it for them
 Disadvantage: All teachers might not have access to computers in
their room, which forces them to take paper attendance and go elsewhere
to use a computer
 -Disadvantage: The attendance system has been known to go down or
malfunction, and because of this many teachers still take paper attendance
 -Disadvantage: You can only access that day’s attendance.

GRADING
 Report Cards
 Carbon copy report cards and transcripts ended in
the 70s
 Handwritten and copies were made (Ended around
89)
 Each teacher had a 3 ½ floppy with their rosters
saved and we entered the grades (every 5 weeks)
and a comment using a number
 Report cards were printed out by school programmer
 Today and for the past 4 years, grading is done on
an online system called Grade book.
 Letter grade and comment

GRADING
 Teacher Calculation of grades
 Before computers all grades were calculated, written
and stored in the same bluebook where attendance
was kept.
 When computers became more common so did
grading programs that do all the calculations for
you!!
 Common grading programs include: 1st Class Grade Book,
Auto Grade, Class Action Grade Book, Class Builder, and
Easy Grade Pro
 Conclusion: Use a flash drive to save your grades
and print paper copies!!!

GRADING

 Long Term storage of Grades
 Schools store transcripts from past years in a
secure location!
 Paper grades (if they are still done) are also
collected and put in a secure location

CURRICULUM

 What kind of paperwork do teachers have
besides attendance and grading?
 lesson plans, unit plans, readings, worksheets,
notes, chapter tests, unit tests, semester exams, old
examples of student work
 Storage of this paperwork
 lesson/unit plans in notebooks, binders, on disk and
flash drive
 file cabinets for paper copies
 3 ½ floppies and now flash drives

TEACHERS CHEATING?

 ”Teacher cheating is
rarely looked for,
hardly ever detected,
and just about never
punished.” (Levitt,
2005)

TEACHERS CHEATING?

 . . . and you always
thought that the No. 2
pencil was for the
students to change
their answers.

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