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A 21 st Century Teacher is…. A 21 st Century Student is…. Who inspired you?. Teacher. In 20 years…. # whyiteach. # whyiteach. # whyiteach.
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Who inspired you? Teacher
Every teacher I know has a strong reason for why they became a teacher. Everyone of them dedicates to increasing professional practices to map to today’s leaners, even though that roadmap is being redrawn due to today’s changes in education.
Professional Learning Culture • Use of data to determine decisions • Strengthen skills and practices • Continuous, ongoing feedback • Collaborative and connected • Synchronous and Asynchronous
21st Century Learning Initiative Personalized Learning Using Digital Tools Advancing Professional Practices1. Increasing Digital Fluency2. Refining Instructional Practices3. Strengthening Instructional Management
Professional Learning Network • Instructional Coaches • Reading Specialists • ACE Program Specialists • Curriculum Mapping Team • Digital Fluency Team • Special Education Teams • Innovations Group
Professional Learning Program Strand 1 Building Foundational Skills or Fluency for Tech Savvy Teachers Content design in these sessions focuses on helping participants acquire the knowledge and skills for using digital tools for job specific tasks. Sessions in this strand also focus on creating an awareness and show examples of digital tools use for traditional learning events and activities. Strand 2 Developing/Refining Instructional Practices Content design in these sessions focuses on creating meaningful learning activities for students using latest research in effective teaching and learning practices. These sessions are student results driven and focus on helping participants acquire the instructional or learning strategies to use when designing meaningful student learning activities rather than how to use digital tools. Strand 3 Developing Innovation and Leading Change in Learning Environments Content design in these sessions focuses on building the capacity to deliver professional development sessions for Strand 2 sessions. Additionally, this strand includes providing opportunities for learning innovative techniques for the teaching and learning that are not already common place.
Professional Learning Target Groups • 1:1 ClassroomTeachers Grades 4 and 7, 5 and 8 • 1:ManyiPad Cart Classroom Teachers • Non 1:1 Classroom Teachers • Instructional Coaches, ACE Specialists, Reading Specialists, Innovations Group, Digital Fluency Team, Administrators
Successes So Far • Ramp up in a very short period of time. • Seed innovators to build capacity • Give tool early to teachers • Let it be an organic process—we will learn from our pilot group • Provide some mental models • Hear from others who are doing similar things • Provide team collaboration opportunities • Our focus is not on the mobile device but embedding its use within learning targets.
Team Collaboration • Professional sharing • Professional planning • Time to cross pollinate what has been learned in the hundreds of individual learning networks
Professional Learning for 1:1 iPads for Classrooms Phase 1 60+ hours • Personal Investigation • Building Digital Fluency • Team Collaboration • Curriculum Design and Instructional Shifts • Site Visits to Classrooms • Content Conferences, Workshops, Online Learning
Snapshot of Learning in Our Classrooms • Teaching uses a wide-range of tools daily to deliver instruction rich in visuals to students
I am using the iPads for… • Independent work (during reading and math centers) • Reinforcement of content learning such as Learn Zillion math activities in school and at home. • Use of online videos, activities, and quizzes • Bellwork, Classwork, note-taking, presentations, communication, and formative and summative assessments. • Shared writing • Journaling, brainstorming, writing of all types, research, communicating with others, reading comprehension • Self-paced work on curriculum • Online searching for information • Vocabulary work • Students use the iPad to practice and explain skills
? • Be curious • Question • Talk about what is important to them • Set goals • Teach • Consult • Develop and state opinions on real world issues • Ponder • Create and construct • Explore • Test hypotheses • Curate information • Develop originality • Reflect on words and actions • Co-learn • Work with words • Pull apart content, concepts and skills to gain understanding • Develop thinking and write about ideas • Determine what they know and how they know
Any Time, Any Pace, Any Place • Working with Words • Probing for Understanding • Interacting with Text, Content and Concepts • Writing and Speaking About Learning • Anytime, Anywhere, Any Path, Any Pace • Creating Meaningful Student Learning Activities • Making Thinking Visible • Getting Kids to Talk • Unleashing Creativity and Student Voice
Challenges we Face in our Shifts to Mobile Devices used in Learning • Acquiring new instructional management techniques • Changing teaching and learning practices to personalized learning • Connecting to meaningful learning activities of common core curriculum • Making the school culture more collaborative • Revise curriculum to support 21st century knowledge and skills • Ongoing professional learning and building teacher leaders • Implementing 1:1 and transforming curriculum and instruction simultaneously • Continuing to collect dashboards of data to drive student learning • Refining Formative assessment and differentiation practices to meet the needs of all learners • Shifting from content based print resources to digital resources for artifacts in teaching • Shifting to digitally created student artifacts of learning
Instructional Management Instruction
Advice to Self • Talk to my colleagues as often as possible to share great ideas! • Keep working and be willing to make mistakes and take risks. • Take one thing at a time so students don't lose instructional time. • I give myself a goal of finding a new way each week to use the iPads in the classroom. Sometimes it works sometimes it does not. It is truly a learning and growing process.
Advice to District • Share ideas with other teachers on use of iPads in the classroom. • Teachers able to observe other teachers using tools for learning • The more time to plan and collaborate with our grade level, the better! We learn so much from each other.
Professional Learning for 1:1 iPads for Classrooms Phase 2 SIP Institutes • Personal Investigation • Building Digital Fluency • Team Collaboration • Curriculum Design and Instructional Shifts • Site Visits to Classrooms • Content Conferences, Workshops, Online Learning • Showcasing Ideas Modeling Instruction and Instructional Management
Professional Learning for 1:1 iPads for Classrooms Phase 3 SIP Institutes • Personal Investigation • Building Digital Fluency • Team Collaboration • Curriculum Design and Instructional Shifts • Site Visits to Classrooms • Content Conferences, Workshops, Online Learning • Showcasing Ideas Modeling Instruction and Instructional Management
Student Engagement in 21st Century Learning • I Have an iPad! • Content Creation Tools to Create Artifacts for Learning • My Online Learning Space • Digital Citizenship for Students
As we move forward… • Information Literacy • Digital Citizenship and Internet Safety Standard set of core apps that we call our Digital Student Backpack so that students can: • Annotation and Idea Mapping Tools • Information Access Tools • Digital Text Tools • Reflection and Learning Management Tools • Communication and Collaboration Tools • Creation Tools • Personalized Curriculum Tools • Utilities
Things we are gearing up for… • Beginning our Grade 5/8 Teacher professional learning • Showcasing Ideas and highlighting mental models of 1:1 use in the classroom • Refining our digital backpack for teaching and learning • Next year with four grades deployed • Who, what , when where, how, why • Blending all professional learning • Building capacity within all groups of the professional learning network
Parent/Community Engagement • Open House Introduction to Classroom Pages and School District Website Updates • eChalk • My Child Has an iPad, What Should I Know? • Content Creation Tools to Help My Child Create Artifacts for Learning • My Child’s Online Learning Space • Digital Citizenship for Students: What’s A Parent Need to Know?
