Week 4 Part 2

Professional Development Planning

My district is extremely conscious of the ongoing need for development of students’ and teachers’ mastery of technology in a global world. The district understands teachers need for continuous professional development in order to stay current in the classroom with the growing number of technologies and their applications. The district and campus leaders must use professional development to be able to access and use data to improve student learning. I have selected two professional development sessions to target student needs in the classroom.

Professional Development 1:
Building Teachers’ Technology Integration Skills
(This will be a yearly analysis)

The campus STaR chart summary is distributed on an annual basis and will be analyzed by the Principal, then the information will be delivered to the faculty for a discussion of areas of strengths and weaknesses. After analysis of the chart a determination is made that shows our campus weakness is Key Area 1- Teaching and Learning.
Teachers will break into small groups with a Mentor teacher for the purpose of helping teachers integrate the Technology TEKS for a student-centered learning environment.
Teachers will be assigned to rooms with their Mentor teachers that have adequate computer access for the facilitation of activities to integrate curriculum into daily learning experiences that use technology.
This professional development activity will be ongoing and follow up will be on a monthly basis for the purpose of building a greater comfort level in the daily use of technology in the classroom as well as building a solid knowledge base as it pertains to technology integration in a student-centered learning environment.

Professional Development 2
Empowering Teachers with Power Point Presentations

Focus of this Professional Development is to help teachers to feel more at ease with the use of Power Point for integration and teaching to students in their daily work.
The P.D. session will begin with a review of the Technology TEKS as it pertains to each grade level. Through this review activity the teachers will become aware of how a Power Point presentation project can cover many of the Technology TEKS.
During the P.D. session a Power Point presentation will be shown to show the teachers the many applications that can be incorporated within a Power Point. Some of these applications are, word processing, spreadsheets, graphs, audio, and video.
Grade levels will break into groups at work stations where each teacher will be guided to prepare a Power Point Presentation based on their grade level TEKS requirements. Grade levels will select a finished product to share at the end of the P.D. session.
Each teacher will select a Power Point presentation from a student to place on the District server for sharing with District stakeholders to ensure this technology is being implemented into the curriculum.