ACTION INQUIRY: What can we do to make technology staff development collaborative, job-embedded, and ongoing to enhance professional growth and student success?
GOAL: We need a method to help make technology staff development collaborative, job-embedded, and ongoing to enhance professional growth and student success? My site mentor is always interested in utilizing all of the technology tools, programs, software, and equipment that we have available on our campus. But sometimes teachers do not have instructions, technology lesson plans ideas, or helpful links to be able to utilize some of this campus technology. Many times there are yearly staff development meetings on some of this technology, but when the teachers get back to the classroom, they do not retain what they have learned in a brief staff development.
Our action inquiry is to research this topic; "What can we do to make technology staff development collaborative, job-embedded, and ongoing to enhance professional growth and student success?" We need a collaborative staff development method that won't take teachers out of their classrooms and is job-embedded and ongoing to help teachers be able to utilize technology for lesson enhancement and student success. We need a method to provide a location for administrators, teachers, and staff to collaborate, learn, share, post, technology instructions (Star Charts, Star Boards, Elmos, Neos, Clickers, Student Island), helpful ideas, lesson plan templates, Lesson Plan Cycle, helpful technology sites, and helpful YouTubes, instructions for 2007 Microsoft Office, Test INOVA data, TEAMS report data, TAKS reviews for the purpose of technology staff development in a collaborative, job-embedded and ongoing method to enhance professional growth and student success.
Our action inquiry is to research this topic; "What can we do to make technology staff development collaborative, job-embedded, and ongoing to enhance professional growth and student success?" We need a collaborative staff development method that won't take teachers out of their classrooms and is job-embedded and ongoing to help teachers be able to utilize technology for lesson enhancement and student success. We need a method to provide a location for administrators, teachers, and staff to collaborate, learn, share, post, technology instructions (Star Charts, Star Boards, Elmos, Neos, Clickers, Student Island), helpful ideas, lesson plan templates, Lesson Plan Cycle, helpful technology sites, and helpful YouTubes, instructions for 2007 Microsoft Office, Test INOVA data, TEAMS report data, TAKS reviews for the purpose of technology staff development in a collaborative, job-embedded and ongoing method to enhance professional growth and student success.
Maridale,
ReplyDeleteIf your campus could do what I am able to do for a year or two you might see more success with retention and job-embedded training. I have a flexible schedule in the lab that allows teachers to sign-up for me to come into their classrooms and co-teach with them as they learn how to use their classroom technology. I sometimes record the co-teaching segment using our flip camera. The recording allows the teacher to play it back for review and tutorial when they forgot what we did. It also allows us to share a great lesson with other staff members.
One great thing about the flexible schedule is I can be in a classroom helping another teacher while a different teacher uses the computer lab with their class. The more experienced technology capable teachers can easily use the computer lab without me being there. I usually have their program or websites set-up for them, but they can facilitate the instruction without me being there.
Maridale,
ReplyDeleteOne of the ways we have been working with teachers is through their PLC time. My partner and I email out to the campus the training we will be doing and invite the staff to participate during their PLC period. We usually restrict it to no more than two days a week as the teachers do have other professional development and planning they need to do during the PLC period.
In the training, we break the technology into small segments that allow presentation time, guided practice and an independent assignment to be completed by the next class. The training information and assignments are posted in a course on our Moodle. This allows the teachers to review what we had covered and gives them resources to use for their assignment. We have used this method for "How to Create a Moodle Course" and "How to Incorporate Promethean Boards into the Lesson." Compared to previous training done during in-service gatherings, the teachers have used the information from these trainings to include the technology into the curriculum rather than filing away the material.