Paraprofessional PD Opportunities
Read below about some of the PD scheduled
PD Survey Data
Google Suite Overview
*To get more information visit our website page on Google Classroom.
District-Wide Professional Development Date: November 2, 2020
Hapara
Hapara is a Chromebook Teacher Management Tool that helps classroom teachers coordinate, manage, and track student workflow in Google Apps for Education. It enables teachers to organize their students and their assignments, track their activity and progress, as well as create a personalized environment across different metrics.
To get more information visit our website page on Hapara.
Elementary Level
PD Date: Friday, November 13
PD Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
MS/HS Level
PD Date: Friday, November 13
PD Time: 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Learning Ally
To get more information visit our website page on Learning Ally.
*District-Wide Professional Development Date: December 7, 2020
Google Read and Write
Read&Write offers a range of powerful support tools to help you gain confidence with reading, writing, studying and research, including:
• Text-to-speech to hear words, passages, or whole documents read aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting
• Text and picture dictionaries to see the meaning of words explained
• With speech-to-text, dictate words to assist with writing, proofreading & studying
• Word prediction offers suggestions for the current or next word as you type
• Collect highlights from a text in documents or the web for summarizing and research
• Create and listen to voice notes directly inside of Google Docs
• Highlight specific words to obtain meanings and translation in a different language.
To get more information visit our website page on Google Read & Write.
Elementary Level
PD Date: Wednesday, December 16
PD Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
MS/HS Level
PD Date: Wednesday, December 16
PD Time: 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
PDF Reader Using Read& Write
With the PDF Reader you can:
- annotate any PDF by adding text, freehand drawing, shapes
- highlight any pdf and collect highlights in a separate document
- highlight and create vocabulary lists
- leave comments and feedback, in which students can reply
- use text to speech and the screenshot reader to hear the PDF being read to you
- use speech to text to annotate or to leave comments
- can now use the EquatiO toolbar along with the PDF Reader
Elementary Level
PD Date: Wednesday, January 13
PD Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
MS/HS Level
*District Level Professional Development Monday, February 8, 2020
EquatiO
EquatIO makes math digital, helping teachers and students at all levels create math expressions quickly and easily
Math and STEM Editor
Built on UDL Principles
Integrates seamlessly with Google Read&Write
Works in google docs, forms, slides, sheets, and drawings
Is also an installable app on your computer
To get more information visit our website page on EquatiO.
Elementary Level
*District Level Professional Development Monday, February 8, 2020
MS/HS Level
PD Date: Wednesday, January 13
PD Time: 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Department of People Pupil Personel
Email: carla_segarra@nbpsnj.net
Website: http://www.nbpschools.net/Departments/Technology/index.html
Location: 268 Baldwin Street, New Brunswick, NJ
Phone: 5555
Twitter: @NBPSTechSuper