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Each year, according to the Commissioner’s 100.2 Regulations, districts must create a Professional Development (PD) Plan for the upcoming school year. A key component to the PD Plan are the Priorities. All professional development plans must be tied to one of the priority components listed below:
Professional Practice
Professional Practice
Trainings in order to enhance:
- Professional practice
- Family engagement
- Pedagogical expertise
- Collaboration/Professional Learning Communities
- Technology proficiency
Necessary/Required Trainings
Necessary/Required Trainings
In order to:
- Implement current and new district technology
- Maintain state-mandated regulations
CCLS/Content
CCLS/Content
Trainings in order to:
- Create assessments
- Plan and develop curriculum
- Integrate curriculum/infuse nonfiction literacy into content area
- Infuse CCLS instructional shifts into content area
- Enhance instruction through technology
Instruction/Student Learning
Instruction/Student Learning
Trainings in order to implement and incorporate:
- Data collection on students
- Behavior management
- Tier 1 strategies
- Differentiated instruction
- Progress monitoring
- Instructional technology
Staff Development in Instructional Technology
Staff Development in Instructional Technology
In reviewing the district’s overall professional development priorities, it is clear that training in instructional technology is emphasized in all priority areas. Technology training is critical to our overall professional development plan. Staff development is offered throughout the academic year and in the summer. On the average, the majority of teachers spend 30 to 40 hours per academic year on scheduled professional development activities. Below are the different modes of instruction available for teachers to fulfill professional development requirements within these four priorities:
- Professional design days
- Half days and Superintendent’s Conference Days
- Faculty meetings, department or grade-level meetings focused on student learning and/or professional growth
- Team Time meetings
- Workshops provided by BH-BL staff members
- Out-of-district conferences and workshops for teachers
- Online classes and courses.
In the 2015-16 school year, the district offered
In the 2015-16 school year, the district offered
- Embedded, weekly, small-group training in Google Apps for Education for all sixth and seventh grade teachers.
- On-going district-wide training in Google Docs and Google Drive.
- Teacher training on new laptops (Chromebooks and MacAirs).
- After-school workshops run by technology integrators on Google Classroom and Blackboard.
- External trainers brought in as needed, which included iReady Teachers Toolbox trainers for all K-5 teachers.
- Parent Training for ThinkCentral (Math online resources).
- Individualized Summer Tech Training Program on Instructional Technology Integration. Topics included: Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Forms, Google Slides, Google Sites, Prezi, LucidPress, Lucid Charts, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Classroom, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, iMovie, iPhoto, and Garageband.
- Full participation in Model Schools through NERIC.
- Support of many conferences and trainings out of district. For example, in 2015-16 teachers went to NERIC Tech Awareness Day, DATAG, and Google Certification Training.
- Began training protocol for moving the entire district to a new student management system (eSchool Data). This will continue throughout 2016-17.
- Support pilot program for new software packages (i.e., Wizard Online, Discovery Learning).
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