Introduction to PiL Training Provider Program

1. Introduction to PiL Training Provider Program Adrian Blight and Tracy Immel

2. Adrian Blight Tracy Immel • 15 yrs in education and technology • Managing Director of Imagine Education • Global experience in over 30 countries • ICT and education, pre-service teacher training and innovative curriculum design • Educator training around 21st Century Skills Development for Microsoft • Responsible for Middle East & North Africa for The British Council’s Connecting Classrooms • 20 yrs in education and technology • Last position Microsoft  Global Director for K-12 Teacher Professional Development • Professional Coach with emphasis on change management • Strategic consulting, program management,and facilitation of public private partnerships • Currently manages Partners in Learning Training Provider programon behalf of Microsoft

3. Webinar Objectives Latest research on professional development and implications for trainers. Discover professional development assets to create new or supplement your current programs. Overview of Level 100, 200 and 300 professional development offerings How to become a Partners in Learning Training Provider

4. Training Provider Program Capacity building is anything that is done to increase the collective effectiveness of a group Michael Fullan

5. Organizations • NGOs • Commercial Providers • Non-profits • Independent Consultants • Affiliate employees • Education System Trainers • Primary role may be classroom educator • Has formal role as peer coach

6. What is the benefit to you? • Engagement, best practice sharing and professional development opportunities • Opportunity to receive customer referrals • Recognition on the PiLN as a teacher trainer • Affinity with Microsoft • Chance to attend the Global Forum • Over 150 hours of pedagogically sound content

7. Training provider portal Email signature Logo lock-ups

8. What is 21st century teaching and why is ICT important?

9. There is a global crisis… 75 million young people are unemployed, but businesses can't find enough skilled workers to fill job vacancies. Almost 40% of employers say a lack of skills is the main reason for entry-level vacancies Education to Employment – Designing a System That Works (McKinsey) http://mckinseyonsociety.com/education-to-employment/

10. Microsoft Skills are in DEMAND - globally! Jobs in Demand by Technology Fastest Growing Occupations Globally include Health Care and Information Technology IT jobs will grow from 35.6 million jobs in 2009 to 41.4 million jobs by 2013 Strong hiring interest for Microsoft Skills & Certifications Source: Indeed.com, April 2013

11. McKinsey: Solutions that work • Education providers and employers actively step into one another’s worlds. • Employers and education providers work with their students early and intensely.

12. Technology outside of education 1.5 million pieces of content are shared on social media…daily 120,000 blogs created daily 2 blogs created per second… …by 15 year olds

13. Student brain scans

14. What is the student doing?

15. Just use technology, right? Internet searching Naive users Experienced users

16. Switching off in class (Source: User Generated Education)

17. Digital natives New students Digitally Literate Always connected Experiential Mobile Community oriented New practices Learner centered Interactive Experiential Adaptive

18. A 21st century curriculum? Critical thinking Multi-literacy Problem solving Information gathering Information analysis Information ethics Project-based learning Inquiry-based Source: Imagine Education

19. Yesterday’s learning ecosystem parents teacher friends library

20. Today’s learning ecosystem

21. The networked teacher http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/about

22. What skills does a 21st century teacher need? http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/

23. Questions and clarifications

24. 21st Century Professional Development

25. What type do you think is most successful?

26. What research says

27. New models of professional development

28. Building Educator Capacity Microsoft research-based professional development and assessment solutions

29. Innovative Teaching and Learning Moving from theory to action

30. Does more innovative teaching help students develop the skills they need in today’s world of work? What are the school and system level conditionsthat can help innovative teaching and learning expand more broadly?

31. Innovative Teaching +ICT Access Learning Beyond the Classroom Student Centered Pedagogies Using Digital Tools Personalized Collaborative Knowledge building Learning to learn Using ICT for: Knowledge building Collaboration Creativity Innovation Problem Solving 24/7 learning opportunities Global and cultural understanding

32. How can we support educators through this transformation?

33. Scaffold educator competencies UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers

34. Partners in Learning Professional Development Partners in Learning Professional Development UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers

35. Each curriculum can build on the next

36. Customized for more individualized approach • Just in time, not just in case • Perfect for ongoing engagement • Ties skills to educator context Digital Literacy Teaching with Technology 21st Century Learning Design

37. Level 100: Digital Literacy

38. Level 100: Digital Literacy & Productivity Tools

40. Digital literacy & productivity tools 30 hours, self-paced

43. Partners in Learning Professional Development Partners in Learning Professional Development UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers

44. Level 200: Teaching with Technology

45. Teaching with Technology April 2013 2. eLearning Content 6 courses Embeds case studies, activitiesand how-to’s 1. Self-Assess Learning Gaps Creates an Individualized Learning Plan 3. Certificates of Completion SummativeAssessments • Microsoft Certified Educator Exam • Valuable & reliable assessment of competency

46. Self Assessment & Individualized Learning Plan