Getting Techy with Your PD
TCEA 2015
Brandy Wall
- Summarize New Learning
- Immediate Relevance (What's in it for me? WIIFM)
- Speed with which we learn slows down
- Adults forget 25% within on hour, 85% within one week. It takes 21 attempts to establish a patter and 100 times to become a habits
- Repeat and associate to assure multiple exposures: pair share, journal, four corners
- 30 minutes to discover new learning
- 15 minutes to recover or interact with the learning
- Adults dislike repetitious reporting
- Grouping between 3-6
- Adults like choice
We believe that the requirement to provide ongoing, high quality, job-embedded
professional development to staff in a school is clearly tied to improving instruction in
multiple ways. First, the requirement that professional development be ‘‘job-embedded’’
connotes a direct connection between a teacher’s work in the classroom and the
professional development the teacher receives. (National Archives and Records
Administration, 2009, p. 58479)
- Department of Education
- Action Research - select a topic and systematically investigate. They record data and consider theories from the research.
- Critical Friends Groups - analyze each others' work such as student work, a lesson plan, or assessment. They discuss challenges and student needs.
- Data Teams/Assessment Development - analyze results from assessments to determine instruction and they may refine the assessment to gain more useful data.
- Examining Student Work - common understanding of good work
- Lesson Study - demonstrate a specific teaching and learning goal while someone documents what they observe.
- Portfolio - lesson plans, student work, reflective writing, or anything else used directly in the classroom
- Professional Learning Communities - analyze their practice
- Study Group - School Improvement goals or student data
Action Research/Portfolio
Scrible
Scrible can be a great replacement for Delicious bookmarks. It has all the tagging capabilities of Delicious and great note and highlighting features.
Google Forms
Google Sites
TCEA Example - Action Research
TCEA Example - ePortfolio
Critical Friends/Examining Student Work/Lesson Study
Workflow - Add-On
Google Docs Comment
Axiom
Professional Learning Communities/Study Group
RealtimeBoard
Mindmup
Cacoo
Cacoo is a user friendly online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site map, flowchart, mind map,
Lucid Chart
TCEA Example - Collaborative View
TCEA Example - Published View
Conceptboard
TCEA Example - My Home
Twitter Curator - Add-On
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