5.2 Professional Learning
Candidates develop and implement technology-based professional learning that aligns to state and national professional learning standards, integrates technology to support face-to-face and online components, models principles of adult learning, and promotes best practices in teaching, learning, and assessment.
Candidates develop and implement technology-based professional learning that aligns to state and national professional learning standards, integrates technology to support face-to-face and online components, models principles of adult learning, and promotes best practices in teaching, learning, and assessment.
The One-Hour Technology Workshop I conducted for ITEC 7460, Professional Learning and Technology serves as my artifact for this standard. For this assignment, I was charged with creating a professional learning workshop that aligns to ISTE standards. I created multiple handouts to support my face-to-face instructional workshop, a website to extend the workshop beyond the classroom, and an evaluation survey to gather feedback on the effectiveness of my workshop and the value of the material covered.
I mastered this standard using the ADDIE (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement and Evaluate) methodology to develop my workshop. I analyzed the needs of my teachers through my own background knowledge of the state of technology in my school as well as through informal conversations many teachers. My analysis revealed that a large number of SMART Boards had been purchased for classrooms, but minimal instruction had been given to the teachers. I wanted my teachers to have hands-on practice with SMART Boards and to walk away from the workshop with something in hand that they could use in their classrooms. I decided to create a workshop introducing teachers to the vast resources available to them on the SMART Exchange website, and to help them create Jeopardy and Koosh Ball Review Games utilizing their SMART Boards.
During the design and development portions of this project, I developed my lesson plans, stating my objectives, the standards my workshop would address, the materials I would need, the date and location of the workshop, promotional materials, my instructional process, and how I would evaluate the success of the workshop. I timed the implementation of the workshop to occur after school a few weeks before final exams.
I consider this workshop to be one of my most valuable learning experiences as it taught me the skills I need to analyze technology needs in alignment with content and ISTE standards and then to design effective instruction that grabs the interest of the intended audience, supports their learning with supplementary materials accessible during and after the workshop. In addition, I learned the value of evaluation instruments in collecting data on which to base future workshop development. If I had to do this workshop again, I would work with my administration to offer it on a professional learning day so that more time could be taken and more teachers could attend.
This artifact impacted faculty development positively. As a faculty member, I developed new skills in developing and implementing professional learning on technology integration. The participating teachers were also impacted positively, gaining new skills and confidence in using their powerful SMART Boards to engage students and improve student learning. The success of this artifact was assessed using the evaluation survey administered at the end of the workshop, and in follow-up conversations between myself and the participating teachers.
I mastered this standard using the ADDIE (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement and Evaluate) methodology to develop my workshop. I analyzed the needs of my teachers through my own background knowledge of the state of technology in my school as well as through informal conversations many teachers. My analysis revealed that a large number of SMART Boards had been purchased for classrooms, but minimal instruction had been given to the teachers. I wanted my teachers to have hands-on practice with SMART Boards and to walk away from the workshop with something in hand that they could use in their classrooms. I decided to create a workshop introducing teachers to the vast resources available to them on the SMART Exchange website, and to help them create Jeopardy and Koosh Ball Review Games utilizing their SMART Boards.
During the design and development portions of this project, I developed my lesson plans, stating my objectives, the standards my workshop would address, the materials I would need, the date and location of the workshop, promotional materials, my instructional process, and how I would evaluate the success of the workshop. I timed the implementation of the workshop to occur after school a few weeks before final exams.
I consider this workshop to be one of my most valuable learning experiences as it taught me the skills I need to analyze technology needs in alignment with content and ISTE standards and then to design effective instruction that grabs the interest of the intended audience, supports their learning with supplementary materials accessible during and after the workshop. In addition, I learned the value of evaluation instruments in collecting data on which to base future workshop development. If I had to do this workshop again, I would work with my administration to offer it on a professional learning day so that more time could be taken and more teachers could attend.
This artifact impacted faculty development positively. As a faculty member, I developed new skills in developing and implementing professional learning on technology integration. The participating teachers were also impacted positively, gaining new skills and confidence in using their powerful SMART Boards to engage students and improve student learning. The success of this artifact was assessed using the evaluation survey administered at the end of the workshop, and in follow-up conversations between myself and the participating teachers.