Smooth Sailing to Your Best Technology Professional Development Ever

1. Smooth Sailing to Your Best Technology Professional Development Ever February 10, 2010 9:15

2. Our Technology Day • 6 hours of professional development • Breakaway technology sessions • Teacher led sessions

3. How it started • 1st year • 3 hours, one campus, 3 presenters • Showcase new equipment • 2nd year • 6 hours, two campuses, 8 presenters • Retrofit • One-to-one implementation • 3rd year • 6 hours, three campuses, 13 presenters • new middle school • 2nd year of one-to-one

4. Timeline • 3 months prior: • Call for presenters • Facilities requests • Meet with Campus ITS’s to determine numbers and brainstorm sessions • 2 months prior • Presenter applications due • Campus ITS’s will determine presentations from each campus.

5. Timeline • 6 weeks prior: • Campus ITS send information to Coordinator. • Make schedule of classes • 1 month prior: • Send schedule and workshop planning document for each session to Curriculum Management Specialist to input information into system. They need to have information posted in system by 2 weeks prior.

6. Timeline • 2 weeks prior: • Faculty meeting to inform teachers • Handout with schedules and description • Start signing up via Eduphoria. • Day before: • Campus ITS’s meet at school to hang signs (restroom, classroom) and set up rooms. • Print individual teacher schedules for the day • Reminder email to teachers

7. Day Schedule • 8:00-8:30 • Meet in cafeteria • Morning Sessions • 8:35-9:20 • 9:25-10:10 • 10:15-11:00 • 11:05-11:50 • Lunch (on your own) • Afternoon Sessions • 1:20- 2:05 • 2:10-2:55

8. Reflection • 3:00-4:00 Reflection Time • All teachers meet in cafeteria and sit based on departments • Reflect on what they’ve learned and how they plan to implement their ideas in their curriculum. • Principals release teachers when they can tell that they are finished reflecting.

9. Session Survey • Overall, how would you rate the training? • Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor • The materials distributed were pertinent and useful. • Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor • I will be able to apply the knowledge. • Yes, No • Do you have any feedback for this session’s trainer on the quality and style of instruction? • Open-ended response.

10. Teacher Feedback Incredibly useful and valuable Helps me “keep up” with technology My classroom would be lacking if I hadn’t had the opportunity to attend the last two years. Hands-on, creative sessions Many of the best “tricks” come from other teachers who have worked through the “kinks” or have thought of other uses for it.

11. What’s next? • Summer district wide technology day • Will include the Curriculum and Instruction Department and the Instructional Technology Department. • Might be an “Innovative Teaching” mini-conference instead of technology. • Maybe over two days.

12. Smooth Sailing to Your Best Technology Professional Development Ever Go to https://wiki.rockwallisd.org/groups/tcahill for handouts and a copy of this presentation. Contact us for questions: Rikki Smith: rsmith@rockwallisd.org Tara Cahill: tcahill@rockwallisd.org