Overview

Project Idea/Description:

This project based professional development will provide an opportunity for staff to collaborate in vertically aligned, subject based groups to build transformative lesson plans, digital lesson content, and course materials for their classes.

Driving Question:

How can I transform my teaching with technology?

Sub Questions:

1. What is the SAMR model?
2. What does each level of the SAMR model look like in the classroom?
3. Why would we want to change from traditional substitutional instruction with technology to using technology in a transformational way?
4. What are the benefits of collaboration in lesson planning, and in instructional practice?
5. What does transformational instruction look like?
6. What makes authentic, transformational instruction engaging for students?
7. What pedagogical strategies/theories align best with transformational instruction?
8. What are some innovative and engaging ways other teachers are using technology in their classes?
9. What pitfalls do we need to avoid while implementing technology into our instruction?
10. How do we evaluate new instructional practices?

Content Standards

Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

1a. Promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.

1b. Engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources .

1c. Promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students’ conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes .

1d. Model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments.

Design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments

2a. Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.

2c. Customize and personalize learning activities to address students’ diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources.

2d. Provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards, and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching.

Model digital age work and learning

3a. Demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations.

3d. Model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning.

Promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility

4b. Address the diverse needs of all learners by using learner-centered strategies providing equitable access to appropriate digital tools and resources.

Engage in professional growth and leadership

5b. Exhibit leadership by demonstrating a vision of technology infusion, participating in shared decision making and community building, and developing the leadership and technology skills of others.

References:

International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards for Teachers (2008).

https://www.iste.org/standards/standards/standards-for-teachers

21st Century Skills

• Creativity and Innovation
• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
• Communication and Collaboration

References:

Partnership for 21st Century Skills: P21 Framework Definitions (2009)

http://www.p21.org/our-work/p21-framework