Evidence and Reflection

Objective

Over the course of the 18/19 academic year, we will encourage and train our teachers to grow in their confidence of Google Apps and open their minds to an environment of professional learning.

In November, 6th Grade Students shared their Hero's Journey projects with parents and other visitors. All work was created within a Google Slide template. By creating such a cool project that looks good, the students built confidence in their skills. All laptops/iPads/Computers were accompanied by a form where students could let the author know what they thought of the work. Overall, student confidence grew as students shared their writing and Google expertise.

To carry out our School Improvement Team (SIP) indicator A2.04 which states: Instructional Teams develop standards-aligned units of instruction for each subject and grade level, our teachers will be uploading Computational Thinking lessons into a Google Classroom created for this purpose by SIP. Teachers will use this Google Classroom environment 3 times throughout the year to obtain and complete the SIP task. This is an efficient way of achieving the SIP objective that also models use of Google Classroom and provides repeated practice in this environment for teachers to help grow confidence and experience with Google Classroom.

In November, we planned with our Digital Learning Coordinators, Katherine Haywood and Wanda Hanley, to have two days of learning during planning periods. On February 7 and 21st, we had good turnout and decided to add one more day for a sandbox workday, March 21st.