Acronyms…what are they good for? Absolutely everything!I love them. Really. I learned to love them and use them to my benefit many years ago. I had a great teacher who told me if I could create acronyms for major categories or lists that needed memorizing, I would have a painless time recalling information. How right he was. Thanks, Mr. Weisbrod!
I’m sharing this jog down memory lane with you because it occurs to me that much of the information needed when planning and designing programs involves many acronyms. A few that come to mind are: BEG, BET and BE, SMART, KASAB, ALP, SAP, HRMS, ERP, NSDC, FPDSEP, PDFE, DOE and more…much more. Did you recognize some of them? All of them? If you know them all, then you too are a Program Planning Geek (PPG), or the more formal Program Design Guru (PDG).
The focus of this blog will be on the Broward County Public School’s (BCPS) district-wide goal to generate a professional development system that creates quality programs that align with the National Staff Development Council (NSDC) and Florida's Professional Development System Evaluation Protocol (FPDSEP). That is a mouthful. As we incorporate the standards of quality for professional development - planning, delivery, follow-up and evaluation (PDFE) into our program design, we will have quality programs district-wide.
`Nuff said…Let’s head right to the “B’s” as we wade through the big three of our alphabet soup - BEG, BET and BE. (By the way, this was the most asked question during the Program Development 101 workshop)A BEG, Business Event Group, is the name of the program for which you are designing, or writing training. An example of a BEG is the Professional Developer’s Program.
After your BEG is created, you will need to follow with a BET, Business Event Type. A BET is the event or training that you or your designers are creating. It will link to the Business Event Group (BEG) and fall under its umbrella. You can have many related BETs under one BEG. An example of a BET is Program Development 101, one of the events in the Professional Developer’s Program.
Last in this progression is the BE, Business Event. The BE is the specific date, time and location of a Business Event Type (BET). An example then would be, Program Development 101/Tuesday March 13/ 8:30AM - 11:30AM/HRD Professional Development & Training.
I’m blogging out of here for now. Get out your combs for the next topic, Untangling the BEG Process.
2 comments:
Your phrase "fall under one umbrella" really helps me to remember that the BEG is the umbrella to shelter all my
BETs.
I agree - "KISS" is my motto. The more simple we keep it, the more likely we are to actually adhere to the model. When it becomes this monumental overwhelming and confusing process or task, it gets procrastinated or resented.
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