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Professional Technology Development In Pulaski Schools

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BIG CONCEPT

Supporting professionals through

coaching and teaching

impacting students, based on 4 C’s.

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1.

The Need

Digital Literacy Skills

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District Inservices 6 years Integration Focused

Amy

Our district has always done an excellent job of professional development for our staff in all areas of our jobs. PD in instructional technology is no exception- it's an area we have been focusing on for many years. PD has been hand in hand with devices in carts, classrooms and now student hands. Because of our implementation have spanned many years, we have built a large network of our own staff who are experts and willing to help their colleagues grow in ideas, skills and resource knowledge. This has allowed us to offer our own “tech conferences” for staff with lots of choice, voice and collaboration. For the past 6 years, we’ve had the opportunity to devote a full day’s inservice to instructional technology. The last 3 years, we’ve included all staff and built their agendas around their specific job professional development needs. We not engaged with our own district experts, but also other experts virtually. Hangouts with Google, ADE’s in Texas, Canada, and other states. These inservices has not only allowed for great learning and collaboration, but also built community among staff for continued collaboration.

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February 22, 2016

Professional Staff

3 Technology Breakout Sessions

Collaboration Time

Lunch/30min Sandbox Challenge

Amazing Race

Bright Bytes Survey Completion

Paraprofessional/Secretary

2 Technology Breakout Sessions

+ Job Specific Tech Sessions

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Ongoing Professional Development

Collaboration Time

Amy-

Short version: to provide support throughout the year, our LMS/TIS team offer monthly breakfast bytes or lunch and learn trainings in their buildings about specific tech tools for their grade levels and content areas. In addition, they work one on one with staff during collaboration time where they plan lessons with teachers and teach the students and teachers tech tools and skills

Long version:

The district inservice is a great day and energizes staff for integrating technology into their curriculum. To provide support on an ongoing basis and help staff implement their creative ideas with students, our LMS/TIS team provide ongoing training and support daily, weekly, monthly to all staff. Through breakfast bytes or lunch and learns, 10-20 minute trainings on tech tools or integration strategies, and collaboration time with teachers, this team focuses on taking the tech tools learned and applying them to curriculum. Four years ago, our LMS team went to a flexible schedule which means instead of fixed library time, they were able to be available when needed for however long needed. Instead of teaching skills in isolation, they were not able to plan and co-teach with teachers when it best connects to the curriculum. For example, rather than randomly teaching students how to use Google Earth and maybe look for their house or school, they instead would go into the classroom and teach the students Google Earth when they were learning about another country in Social Studies or a journey to various states when reading a book in literacy. This way, the students would learn the tool when it was meaningful and when they could use it to apply their learning to what they are studying in class. During the collaboration between LMS and teacher, planning and learning tech tools takes place in a one on one format. In this case: the LMS teaches the teacher Google Earth before teaching it to students.

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Modeling and Discussions

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Digital

Learning

Plan

Place your screenshot here

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2.

The Program

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Consume

Content

Collaborate

Digital Learning Plan Mission

Create

Consume content from sites and apps to gain information

Learn content from an expert or an expert's work outside the classroom

Collaborate with others in the classroom digitally

Show what they know through the creation of a digital project using real world tools

Use information to generate independent thinking, create solutions, test, analyze, modify, reflect

CriticallyThink/ Productivity

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Support Needs

2.

second

1.

first

3.

third

Instructional

Technical

Building toolbox of skill & resource knowledge

Integration within specific curriculum

Apple Core

Team

Morning,

Afterschool,

Saturdays

Oct- April

Training

LMS/TIS

Team

Teacher Choice

Ongoing

Bi-Monthly

Monthly

As requested

Coaching

Technician

Team

Helpdesk

Site Visits

Remote access

Work Orders

Tech Fixes

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Apple Core Program

Variety of sessions offered aligned to 4 C’s

Catalog

Sessions outside school hours, at each building, from 3:30-4:30 or 4:15-5:15

District Incentives offered

3 hours= personal day

6 hours= comp Feb. 22nd

8 hours= curriculum pay

(for DLP staff)

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Integration Coaching

Educator Self-Assessment

Periodic
Just In Time
Ongoing

Established Coaching Framework Coaching Plan - When does coaching happen?

Why do we need to “coach” teachers?

LMS/ TIS Team: Jessica Belanger, Kathy Deboth, Amy Gee

Clay Reisler, Joe Diefenthaler

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Partnership of PD

“On December 10th, I attended the Interesting Screen Casting session. A couple of weeks ago, with the assistance of Amy Gee (our library media specialist), my class began learning how to use Book Creator.

In attending the sessions, I was able to make connections between apps in how they function and how they can be used. Once I complete the Book Creator mini-writing project, I would love to use the Explain Everything option as I integrate main ideas, details, and summaries into our Exploration/Reading unit.”

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Guess what our results have been in this interactive game of Kahoot!

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2.

The Examples

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Elementary

Video Creation to Demonstrate Learning

5th grade

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iMovie Student Video Creation

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PCMS Example

Documenting

Progress

7th Grade Science Teachers

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7th Grade Students

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Teachers Learning

About Flipboard

Mrs. Schartner teaching

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Flipboard - Sifting Through Resources

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Flipboard = Current Events = TED Talk

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Flipboard 435,00 Followers On Twitter

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3.

The Promotion

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A Positive

#RaiderStrong

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“I was introduced to a variety of apps I could integrate into my math classroom. I implemented an Explain Everything project with a small group the next day!”

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“I liked that it gave me a chance to try different pieces of technology I hadn’t before, and also made my students try things on their own on Canvas that they didn’t before.” .

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“I am actually 100% more fluent in Twitter and Pinterest from just one hour. I am now following areas of professional interest and learning from others around the world.”

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THANKS!

Any questions?

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NON-SCHOOL SPONSORED PD

27% of teachers participate in at least 14 hours of non-school sponsored PD/year

SCHOOL SPONSORED PD

79% of teachers participate in at least 14 hours of school sponsored PD/ year

99% of teachers want to learn more about effective tech use for learning

88% of teachers believes technology use in class enhances student learning

98% of teachers believe their school encourages technology use for learning

QUALITY OF SUPPORT IS AVERAGE ABOVE AVERAGE OR EXCELLENT, teachers report

94% Professional Development

82% Instructional Planning

89% Tech Support for problems

affecting instruction