karen pegler terri-lynn brown. who are we? what is 21 st century pd? successful 21 st century...
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Karen PeglerTerri-Lynn
Brown
Who Are We?
What is 21st Century PD?Successful 21st century professional development programs: ·Ensure educators understand the importance of 21st century skills and how to integrate them into daily instruction ·Enable collaboration among all participants ·Allow teachers and principals to construct their own learning communities ·Tap the expertise within a school or school district through coaching, mentoring and team teaching ·Support educators in their role of facilitators of learning ·Use 21st century tools
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
Objectives of 21st Century PD
ISTE http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForTeachers/NETS_for_Teachers.htm
tpak.org
Koehler & Mishra's TPAK
How Do We Personalize P.D. ?
Needs·Improve student achievement·Embedded professional development·Move away from "drive-by or one size fits all" workshops·Recognize and build on prior knowledge·Demonstrate application of concepts·Model and infuse best practice in the use of educational technology
Our Strategies
·Create opportunities for teachers to personalize their professional learning·Provide choice and flexibility·Just-in-time and ongoing learning·Meeting teachers where they are·Social construction of understanding·Capitalize on the expertise within our system
e-C
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an e-PD course that explores coding, creating web sites and UDL
Pedagogy
ContentTechnology
Ham
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Alternative Uses of the quiz tool in D2L
D2
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website-specialist connection
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webin
ars How to use Read and Write
Gold
story
Webinar-digital storytelling with Macs and PCs
UDL
Universal Design for Learning
Response Theorythe reader and
the text form a poem
What is inquiry-based learning?
Inquiry
Pythagorean Theorem
a2 + b2 =c2
Geographymaps of Canada
Pedagogy
Content Technology
TPKPCK
TCK
e-PD
Webinars
D2L Community/Tutorials
Actions
Successes·D2L is part of the fabric of the CBE
·30% increase in logins every year·Teachers are starting to be able to contextualize their shells·Sharing content and development collaboratively·Starting to see a mash-up (i.e. D2L to support SMART)·Elluminate to explore the use of D2L and SMART·Getting closer toward ubiquitous technology·Teachers are making thoughtful choices about when and what technology to choose to support learning.
Challenges
·Paradigm shift from previous PD model·Capacity for course offerings·Support for "interwoven" offerings i.e. embedding video in D2L-understanding cognitive overload·UDL and AT·Variety·Experts to provide support·COMMUNICATION and Promotion·Celebrating individual teacher growth
Continuing Evolution
·Growth of webinars·e-Portfolios
