Breakout 1
EXAMPLE
Challenges & Future Vision
| BUILDING COMMUNITY | ACCESS TO LEARNING | STUDENT ENGAGEMENT |
Challenges What challenges do you see within your own school / district that relate to each of these areas? | | | |
Future Vision What vision for the future do you have for your school / district within each area of focus? | | | |
Student Engagement
More students require support than we have time / resources for
EXAMPLE
Focus:
Challenge:
What vision for the future do you have for this focus?
Building comfort level with teachers to step into the world of students
Curious and engaged - Learning is for them, not done to them
Challenges & Future Vision
| BUILDING COMMUNITY | ACCESS TO LEARNING | STUDENT ENGAGEMENT |
Challenges What challenges do you see within your own school / district that relate to each of these areas? | | | |
Future Vision What vision for the future do you have for your school / district within each area of focus? | | | |
Access to Learning
The balance between technology and pedagogy
Find a way to help teachers to leverage tech tools in a way where they are not 100% dependant on it but they use it and not avoid it either.
The best balance would help give teachers the cue of how to use the technology as another tool to help students learn.
Focus:
Challenge:
What vision for the future do you have for this focus?
Inspiration Generation
Pete
Andrew
Hillary
Pily
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Pitch
Have teachers engage in a tuning protocol using a lesson they have previously designed
The lesson will be annotated using Google Keep & Jamboard to capture the dialogue that is happening in person. Participants will see the value in technology in capturing key thinking so that they can see their growth over time.
Educators will feel greater confidence in their ability to support & engage students, which will lead to better overall engagement
Instructional videos will be posted on Google Site to help make connections between how the tools can support engagement
Aaron
Videos will highlight key features of the tools and will be levelled based on need & readiness
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Training Pitch
Name:
What ideas do you wish to move forward with?
How do these ideas ensure you are working towards future vision?
How do these ideas help educators amplify technology for in-person learning?
How will you ensure the unique needs of all educators are being met?
Using AI examples of how to use a seemingly pointless activity in conjunction with a learning outcome
Could generate discussion amongst participants
Working towards a balance between purposeful and meaningless use of technology
Give options to share findings (digitally and non-digitally)
Andrew
Training Pitch
Name:
What ideas do you wish to move forward with?
How do these ideas ensure you are working towards future vision?
How do these ideas help educators amplify technology for in-person learning?
How will you ensure the unique needs of all educators are being met?
Use Google Forms to capture discussion points throughout the session and output to a shared Sheet that everyone can then access in the future.
Demonstrate the ease of use to gather lots of ideas at the same time.
Helps to provide a meaningful task that could only be easily achieved using technology, but is not entirely reliant on it (face-to-face discussion taking place)
Task is naturally differentiated by tutors being able to engage in a simple way or a more in-depth way.
Pete
Training Pitch
Name:
What ideas do you wish to move forward with?
How do these ideas ensure you are working towards future vision?
How do these ideas help educators amplify technology for in-person learning?
How will you ensure the unique needs of all educators are being met?
Building a representation of an idea. They build a representation of their idea to communicate (either digitally or with physical tools like Legos).
Educators will need to step outside their own realm of comfort to see their ideas from a different perspective to try something new.
This helps them think outside the box. It also creates an opportunity to model hands-on learning and tech balance.
They will have the option to build digitally or physically. They are also building a personalized idea for their own learning environments. They will focus on a broad range of ideas (big or small) for which to focus.
Hillary
Training Pitch
Name:
What ideas do you wish to move forward with?
How do these ideas ensure you are working towards future vision?
How do these ideas help educators amplify technology for in-person learning?
How will you ensure the unique needs of all educators are being met?
Sharing spaces of teachers’ practices. If people share their successful and unsuccessful practices, they give examples that have worked for others to get inspired.
With already proven practices, other teachers can feel a bit more at ease when trying something different.
The pedagogy of others can help inspire new ways to use tech as a tool
By letting them choose what inspires them to try new things, rather than feel pressured by admin on how to do things.
Pily
Training Pitch
Name:
What ideas do you wish to move forward with?
How do these ideas ensure you are working towards future vision?
How do these ideas help educators amplify technology for in-person learning?
How will you ensure the unique needs of all educators are being met?