Standard 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. (PSC 5.2/ISTE 4b)
Artifact: Technology Workshop
Reflection:
The artifact that I have chosen to best demonstrate standard 5.2 professional development is the One Hour Technology Workshop I created in ITEC 7460. This artifact was created for delivery to Marietta City School (MCS) teachers grades k-12. It was part I in a series of 3 workshops for MCS’s recent adoption of bring your own technology (BYOT) initiative. The workshop was created to support one of the items in MCS’s Technology Plan 2012-2015 and at the request of the district’s professional learning coordinator to support BYOT implementation. Creation of this workshop also fulfilled my commitment in ITEC 7460 to create a professional technology workshop utilizing the learning I received in the class assignments.
This workshop demonstrates my ability to develop and implement technology based professional learning. When developing this workshop I began by speaking with the professional development coordinator to make sure that I was creating a lesson that would best represent the district’s needs for the initiative. I also considered my adult learners and created a workshop that was aligned to national professional learning standards. I emailed the teachers that were registered a survey questioning their goals for the class and I started an Edmodo group for further discussion before our first meeting. From the survey I designed learning that would meet the needs of my class. There were many different levels of technology proficiency among the group, so this helped me to create both individual and collaborative activities during our face to face and online meetings. The entire workshop was created online and approximately 50% of the learning was interactive and hands on. The resources I used and supplied on the webquest were from reputable educational technology journals. The ideas and information for the
most part were grounded in research from several districts that currently had strong personal technology programs in place. I delivered the one hour workshop by using a Prezi presentation that contained videos, topics for discussions, and hands on activities for teachers to complete as we made our way through the content.
In producing this artifact, I learned a great deal about creating a professional workshop using professional learning standards and best practices to meet the needs of my students. The process was tedious but the end result was very effective. Careful planning and communication with all stakeholders involved in this workshop allowed me to put forth a worthwhile class that met the needs and desires of the teachers involved. I did, however, learn one valuable lesson that I will employ in the creation of future professional development. I learned that I need to take a more constructivist approach to my teacher professional development, if I want teachers to start to lead student led classrooms I need to model this a bit more myself. I do believe I accomplished a little of this by including several collaborative, hands on activities and by planning the lesson around the teachers’ needs, but I really would like to work more on being a facilitator and less on being a lecturer.
The work that went into creating this workshop impacted both teacher professional development and student learning in the district. The impact of professional development was accessed by a survey completed at the end of the class and by teacher observations that I was able to conduct later in the school year. The student learning was only accessed by direct observation of teachers’ classrooms that completed the BYOT workshop.
The artifact that I have chosen to best demonstrate standard 5.2 professional development is the One Hour Technology Workshop I created in ITEC 7460. This artifact was created for delivery to Marietta City School (MCS) teachers grades k-12. It was part I in a series of 3 workshops for MCS’s recent adoption of bring your own technology (BYOT) initiative. The workshop was created to support one of the items in MCS’s Technology Plan 2012-2015 and at the request of the district’s professional learning coordinator to support BYOT implementation. Creation of this workshop also fulfilled my commitment in ITEC 7460 to create a professional technology workshop utilizing the learning I received in the class assignments.
This workshop demonstrates my ability to develop and implement technology based professional learning. When developing this workshop I began by speaking with the professional development coordinator to make sure that I was creating a lesson that would best represent the district’s needs for the initiative. I also considered my adult learners and created a workshop that was aligned to national professional learning standards. I emailed the teachers that were registered a survey questioning their goals for the class and I started an Edmodo group for further discussion before our first meeting. From the survey I designed learning that would meet the needs of my class. There were many different levels of technology proficiency among the group, so this helped me to create both individual and collaborative activities during our face to face and online meetings. The entire workshop was created online and approximately 50% of the learning was interactive and hands on. The resources I used and supplied on the webquest were from reputable educational technology journals. The ideas and information for the
most part were grounded in research from several districts that currently had strong personal technology programs in place. I delivered the one hour workshop by using a Prezi presentation that contained videos, topics for discussions, and hands on activities for teachers to complete as we made our way through the content.
In producing this artifact, I learned a great deal about creating a professional workshop using professional learning standards and best practices to meet the needs of my students. The process was tedious but the end result was very effective. Careful planning and communication with all stakeholders involved in this workshop allowed me to put forth a worthwhile class that met the needs and desires of the teachers involved. I did, however, learn one valuable lesson that I will employ in the creation of future professional development. I learned that I need to take a more constructivist approach to my teacher professional development, if I want teachers to start to lead student led classrooms I need to model this a bit more myself. I do believe I accomplished a little of this by including several collaborative, hands on activities and by planning the lesson around the teachers’ needs, but I really would like to work more on being a facilitator and less on being a lecturer.
The work that went into creating this workshop impacted both teacher professional development and student learning in the district. The impact of professional development was accessed by a survey completed at the end of the class and by teacher observations that I was able to conduct later in the school year. The student learning was only accessed by direct observation of teachers’ classrooms that completed the BYOT workshop.