Hallmarks of Successful Eisenhower Projects

7 Hallmarks of Successful Projects

1. Successful projects are able to create (or discover) alternative educational resources.

2. Successful projects operate under the most inclusive notion of project stakeholder.

3. While successful projects need a coherent and consistent set of goals, they must also allow participants the flexibility to meet their own personal needs.
4. Successful projects (and teachers) adopt their own system of internal assessment.
5. Successful programs of teacher professional development also finds ways to include student participation.
6. Successful projects must insure that modeled techniques are implemented by teachers in their classrooms.
7. Teacher professionalization is the “Gold Standard” by which we measure teacher change:
   • Four criteria of professionalization:
     • Inner-directedness
     • Confidence regarding subject mastery
     • Active participation in the discipline
     • Leadership

   • Four levels of professional development activities:
     • Cognitive knowledge (know-what)
     • Pedagogical skills (know-how)
     • Systems understanding (know-why)
     • Professionalization (care-why)

   • The key to transformational programs:
     • Entrepreneurship and empowerment