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 * Session 2: Professional Development**

How have you provided professional development for teachers?


 * Mesa Public Schools**
 * Summer institute for teachers
 * 32 classes, the focus in curriculum integration- imovie, podcast, google schools, integrating into Math K-6, GPS- with a helicopter (will share resources with other districts), graphing calculators, Kidspiration/Inspiration, Web resources, PowerPoint,
 * Used ed-tech funds to pay staff to train and offer jump drives
 * Each class is 16 hours.
 * They are not required- the technology classes filled within 2 hours so Mesa had to add new. So other areas were competing for recruiting teachers so they wanted to include technology integrations into their sessions.
 * 15 teachers per class.
 * There is strong administrative support
 * During the year,
 * Technology integration specialists go into the sites and do follow-up workshops.
 * Are using professional development standards to make a district wide plan to make sure we have focal points.
 * Go dig- they get a digital camera and gig chip and they have to understand how to integrate into curriculum.


 * Paradise** **Valley** **Unified-**
 * All teachers have wireless laptop. Have to go through a 2 hour training
 * KOA- Camp out at their school
 * First Class- email, calendar, websites- at staff meeting they get an overview and then come learn more during their breaks, lunch, and after school
 * Summer Institute- 15 hours, 2 offerings per week, pay teacher to attend NECC through title IID- NETS training to share with teachers
 * They have 3 one-to-one initiatives.
 * Only three technology integration facilitators for the district
 * Gen Yes program so the kids can help- Elem, Middle, and High


 * Gilbert Unified:**
 * Summer:
 * Limited in quantity but strong in content offerings in the summer. PD staff offers training 1 weeks following dismissal, so that time is not available to schedule technology trainings
 * During the school year they offer some after school trainings- great variety of areas- virtual classroom, media projects- i-movie, GPS,
 * There are a group of 11 CORE Techs that work with teachers at the school sites.


 * Maricopa Unified:**
 * No funding or time allocated for technology training- there is a disconnect between curriculum and technology
 * Lab time is optional, some teachers choose not
 * IN- Integrate Now- 10 teachers are involved and attend classes- blogging, podcasting, video conferencing
 * Working to get more administrative support


 * Tempe** **Elementary:**
 * Disconnect between IT, Curriculum, and Educational Technology- working on connecting the groups
 * Work with teaching and learning department and Professional development- most of the trainings were to support the adopted text book and content area curriculum
 * summer- offer in beginning and at the end- want more ongoing
 * School of the future- one-to-one- starting next year
 * 10 classes, 2 hours each, focusing on specific topics and then plan more in-depth workshops


 * Session 3: Tech Literacy for Students and Teachers:**


 * How is the tech literacy of teachers affecting tech literacy for students (and vice versa)**
 * If the teacher isn’t techie then not much being passed down to kids,
 * Some have the “oh well, that is not my thing”.
 * Convenient Computer access is necessary – computers in class and lab
 * Word Processing can be higher order if you are revising
 * Kid comes in with a cool tech resource and the teacher shuts it down


 * How is tech literacy measured in your district?**
 * TLA- is a sampling of 130 kids in the district- that is all we assess
 * We would like to have all students take the TLA- through a mobile lab in the classroom so you don’t tie up time.


 * How should tech literacy be measured?**
 * You need more project-based and process assessment so you can assess the process and higher-order thinking
 * Snapshots of technology use in the classroom- what are kids doing when on computers- What does tech integration look like?