Welcome to ISL 2020! Thank you for choosing our 22nd anniversary conference as your place to grow and flourish in teaching. Join us for hands-on, roll-up-your-sleeves professional learning for innovative, creative, and dedicated educators, just like you!
Again this year, more than hundreds of educators in the Southeast will participate in the keynote seminars, sessions, and other activities taking place during the conference. Our vision is to inspire success and a lifetime of learning not only in students, but in adults as well. That is why we value professional development at Augusta University.
The ISL Conference offers something for every educator. Please review the list of sessions carefully and select the ones that will help you to become a better educator and bring new excitement to your classroom. We would like to thank Richmond County Schools, Columbia County Schools, Burke County Schools, McDuffie County Schools, Lincoln County Schools, and Jefferson County Schools, and all of our partners for helping to make the ISL Conference a success! Thank you for taking time from your weekend schedule to attend the conference, and we hope you find our program to be informative and enlightening!
The presentation will review a mixed-method research study that was conducted to gain a better understanding of the differential influence between traditional professional development (PD) and the alternative PD method of instructional rounds (IR) on teacher metacognitive development in the situated context of the middle school classroom.
The study included an intervention group that incorporated IR as an alternative PD method and a control group that did not use IR. The study examined the differences in the changes of the attitudes and beliefs in the two groups towards metacognition and associated teaching strategies by analyzing teacher reflective journaling, IR process self-documentation, and focus group discussions. The findings were supported by examining the differences in self assessed teacher metacognition scores among and within the two groups.
Higher Education Faculty, Augusta University, College of Nursing
Bill Hamilton is the Assistant Dean of Innovation and Instruction at the Augusta University College of Nursing. Also, he is an Assistant Professor in the Physiological and Technological Nursing Department in the College of Nursing, Department of Neurology at the Medical College of... Read More →
Assistant Principal, Columbia County Schools, North Harlem Elementary School
Baria L. Jennings is an educator with twenty years of combined teaching and leading experience across the P-12 continuum. Mrs. Jennings is currently an Assistant Principal in the Columbia County School System, doctoral candidate in Augusta University’s Educational Innovation program... Read More →
