Technology Professional Development

10.14.19

8:30 AM-10:45 AM

Allison Decker

Welcome!

Allison Decker

• 9 Years Teaching Experience
• 8th Grade Social Studies
• 9th Grade United States History I
• 10th World HIstory Honors

Today’s Agenda

8:30-8:45 AM - Welcome & Introduction

8:45-9:00 AM - Warm Up Activity

9:00--9:30 AM - Activity 1

9:30-9:40 AM - BREAK

9:40-10:10 AM - Activity 2

10:10-10:15 AM - SHORT BREAK

10:35-10:45 AM - Activity 3

Professional Development Goal

• For teachers and staff to discover ways to infuse technology in the classroom no matter what subject is being taught.
• To collaborate with teachers of other disciplines.

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Why?

The State of New Jersey Department of Education requires students under standards 8.1 Educational Technology and 8.2 Technology, Engineering, Design and Computational Thinking to develop necessary technological skills.

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Since our focus is on Middle School Years, we will focus on standards required for grades 6-8. Due to the minimal amount of time for Professional Development, we will only focus on 8.1 Educational Technology and the 31 strands that make up the standards for grades 6-8.

Warm Up Activity Task

Task: Breaking down Standard 8.1 Educational Technology (Overview)

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Warm Up Activity Steps

Start: 8:45 AM

Stop: 9:00 AM

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Step 1: Find a group of 5-6 teachers to work with of different subject matters.

Step 2: Wait for your group to receive a strand from Standard 8.1 Educational Technology.

Step 3: Read the strand and the strand indicators.

Step 4: Participate in a group discussion explaining how that strand indicator would relate to you personally in the classroom. We will review answers for each of the six strands.

Step 5: Group Discussion

Activity 1 (30 Minutes)

Start: 9:00 AM

Stop: 9:30 AM

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• Google Classroom Question for Do Nows
• Google Docs for Journal Writing
• Google Sheets to present DBQ Questions

Activity 1: Google Classroom Questions for Do Nows

Have students get use to completing their Do Now via Google Classroom.

Options can include:

• Google Classroom Question
• Pose a question and have students respond.
• Leave a comment or a quote and have students reply back to your original thought as well as another classmates.
• Have students answer True or False Questions and make correction to the False Statements.
• Create Headlines for a newspaper about a specific topic.
• Give students a picture and have them write down all the things they notice.

Google Classroom Questions Examples

• Question: What effect did the Proclamation Line of 1763 have on the relationship between colonists and the British?
• Quote: Respond to the following quote. What does the quote mean in relation to British rule and independence? “Which is better - to be ruled by one tyrant three thousand miles away or by three thousand tyrants one mile away?”
• True/False Question: The Electoral Votes equation is 435+50+3=488 Electoral Votes. True or False? If the statement is false, change it to make the statement true.
• Headlines: Create a headline in the newspaper about the Boston Massacre from the perspective of the Bostonians, then create one from the perspective of the British.

Google Classroom Questions Examples

• Picture and Question:

1. What do you notice? What do you see that makes you say that?
2. Study each person and object in the picture. What can you tell based on these observations?
3. What are the people doing?
4. Describe the environment. What would it be like to live here? What sounds would you hear? What would you smell?
5. What may have happened before this scene? What might happen after?

Activity 1: Google Docs for Journal Writing

Assign students a Doc at the beginning of a Unit. Have them create journal responses weekly.

Options for journal writing:

• Have students write as if they were living in that time period, what would their experience be like?
• Have students write as if they were in the shoes of a character from a story or a specific historical figure.
• Assign students a role and then a list of events. Have students write from the perspective of their role.

Google Docs for Journal Writing Example

• You will be assigned one of the following: a young boy from Massachusetts, a militia man, a Tory from New York, or a slave from the South. As we learn about the Road to Revolution, write in the perspective of your assigned role for each of the following events:
• Proclamation Line of 1763
• Stamp and Sugar Acts
• Quartering Act
• Boston Massacre
• Townshend Act
• Boston Tea Party
• Intolerable Acts

Activity 1: Google Sheets to Present Document Based Questions and Answers

Use Primary and Secondary Sources to create questions on Unit Topics or Themes.

Then have students answer questions using Google Sheets to create Charts, Graphs, and other Infographics to present their findings.

Google Sheets to Present Document Based Questions Example

Google Sheets to Present Document Based Answers Example

10 Minute Break

Activity 2: Group Brainstorm

Start: 9:40

Stop: 10:10

Directions: Use your groups for Activity 1 to come up with three of your own activities that can be used in any other subject.

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After twenty minutes, we will share and discuss your ideas. We will create a compilation of all activities for staff to use.

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5 Minute Break

Activity 3: Modify the Lesson

Start: 10:15

Stop: 10:35

Directions: Select one of the following lessons and explain how you would modify it with the help of technology.

1. Your Social Studies class is reading several chapters of The Notorious Benedict Arnold. One of the chapters is highlighting the Battle of Saratoga.
2. Your Science class is working on a lab that requires them to build a rollercoaster.
3. Your English class is writing about a scene of their choice in the The Crucible.

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Thank you for your time!

Please complete the following Professional Development Evaluation Form to help me further expand this PD!

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Professional Development Evaluation Form

References

• State of New Jersey Department of Education. (2019). New Jersey Student Learning Standards Technology.

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