Professional+Development

We will use this page to record ideas and take notes at the Ed Tech Collaboration Session on May 11, 2007

How have you provided professional development for teachers?

Professional Development Cooperation among districts Host centrally-located professional development options through ASSET Hybrid-model professional development opportunities F2F meeting - online for the bulk of the training Job-embedded professional development (for technology and otherwise)


 * 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
 * Have tied classes to performance based pay. Participants develop projects in their own classrooms, then share.
 * KOA (camp with a school for a day). The Technology Integration Facilitators and site technology teachers work with each school to develop the day. Possibly 30 minutes with faculty at staff meeting, and then small groups of teachers. Superintendent fully supportive of the idea, encouraging all schools to participate.


 * 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.
 * ASSET professional development courses.


 * Gilbert provides district credit, allows teachers to move on the salary schedule. For a while, provided open labs after school so that teachers could work on assignments with the support of Gilbert Ed Tech.
 * Online hybrid course for new teachers, using the ASSET portal. Cost?
 * “My Learning Plan” is used for teacher registration for courses. Has tracking and reporting features.


 * 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
 * The Project Venture model, which features sustained professional development with mentoring.
 * T3 project “Tempe Teachers of Tomorrow.”
 * One to one computing, 3 elementary classrooms, one middle school classroom.
 * Achievement results show the students have considerably higher achievement than the average Tempe student, and higher than previous student results when teachers didn’t have access to one to one.
 * Scales may become a one to one computing school.