Professional
Development for Technology Integration – Target Key Area 1 – Teaching and Learning
Title:
Teaching and Learning with Technology
Objective:
Teachers will work in learning cohorts to develop student-centered projects
that require the use of shared technology, collaboration, and creativity using
technology tools and programs readily available to all teachers and students in
the district.
Rationale:
Based on the most recent Star Chart summary our campus is still at the Developing
Tech level for Teaching and Learning.
This combined with data related to student achievement in problem
solving and reasoning skills (TAKS Objective 6 strands, local benchmarks)
indicates a need for a new option for leading students to become better problem
solvers and to proficiently use technology for this skill. A focus will be how to decide when and how to
integrate certain technology to have the greatest impact on student learning.
Professional
Development – Data Analysis
Title –
Data – Friend or Foe
Objective:
provide teachers with a primer for using the various data sources available to
them within the district. These will
include AEIS data, Eduphoria, MClass, AIMSweb, and tmsds.org.
Rationale:
As new sources of data are available to teachers for informed instructional
planning, time and opportunity are not given for learning and mastering how to
use the data.
Focus
will include decision making based on the data.|
Technology Action
Planning
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Goal 1: To identify
areas for improvement in technology integration.
Goal 2: Develop professional development for
teachers targeting their unique needs and interests.
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Action Steps(s):
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Person(s) Responsible:
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Timeline: Start/End
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Needed Resources
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Evaluation
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Needs Assessment using STaR Chart, AEIS, and CIP data.
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Campus principal, Instructional Technologists, Campus CTI, and
CPAC (SBDMC)
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Feb. 2012-May 2012
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STaR chart data printouts, AEIS reports, and CIP.
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Teachers become aware of areas in need of improvement and
actively work to strengthen them.
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Identify Areas in need of improvement.
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CPAC committee with help from CTI and District Technology Instructor.
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May 2012
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Data, most up-to-date CIP, and time for committee to meet.
(consider offering work-off hours if financial compensation is not possible)
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Areas that are weak will be evaluated in terms of how PD will be developed to address them.
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Develop PD that gives teacher choice with a menu that would
require at least one area where that person is in need but free choice for at
least 2 other areas
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CPAC, principal, and Instructional Technologist, District
Staff Development Coordinator
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May 2012
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Time, people, and data from needs assessment for determining
required training for individual teachers, facilities for instruction
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After each teacher is assigned required sessions, based on
capacity in other sessions they can also choose 1 or 2 additional
sessions. This PD will be at the
beginning of the new school year.
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Develop the professional development plan.
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CTi, Instructional
Technologist, and District Staff Development Coordinator
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June 2012
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Time, people, and list
of types of educational technology available.
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Create a draft of the plan for two days of professional
development to be given at beginning of new school year outlined the
different sessions to be offered.
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Present draft to the campus administration and CPAC for
approval.
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Campus CTI
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June 2012
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Time, people
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Principal and
Assistant Principal along with the CPAC review the plan and approve it or
request revisions.
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Finalize curriculum,
facility reservations, instructors, and send out registration to teachers
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CTI and his committee,
Instructional Technologists, Staff Development Coordinator
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August 2012
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Time, people,
technology resources to be used.
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All technology to be
used in the presentations is checked to assure it is properly working.
Adjustments will be made as necessary.
All instructors have lesson plans and resources needed.
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Deliver Professional
development
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Technology Instructors,
professional development presenters, and all campus teachers.
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August 2012
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Laptop computers, Smart
Boards, MIMEOs, Computer labs, time, and people, Data projectors, document
cameras, access to internet and intranet.
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Teachers attend
sessions based on both their needs and their interests.
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Evaluation of program.
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Staff Development
Coordinator
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August 2012
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Computers, time,
manpower.
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Online Eduphoria
surveys must be completed before credit is given for PD.
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Reflection
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Technology committee
(now composed of an Instructional technologist, a campus administrator campus
CTI, and 2 – 4 regular classroom teachers)
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August2012-September
2012
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STaR Chart data taken
after training sessions; surveys from Eduphoria
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Did the teachers feel
the technology presented would be useful in their classrooms? Do they feel
confident implementing the technologies introduced? Where do they feel they
need more training?
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Data Presentation
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Technology committee
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September 2012
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Teacher survey data
from Eduphoria
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This data will be used
to determine future professional development activities to be given
throughout the year and in PLCs.
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