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Professional Development

"It's better to be on the bottom of a ladder you want to climb, than to be on the top of one you don't."

Website: http://schoolcomputing.wikia.com/wiki/Professional_Development
Location: administrators
Members: 87
Latest Activity: Nov 13

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Alison Cohen

Technology Proficiencies? 3 Replies

Does any school use basic technology proficiencies for their teachers? If so, how do you assess them? Please share your strategies and ideas.

Started by Alison Cohen. Last reply by Alex Ragone Oct 6.

Gail Braddock

Professional Development Tracking 3 Replies

friends, We are trying to determine an easier way for our teachers to keep up with their professional development hours for conferences, workshops, etc. I was considering devising a FMPro database...

Tagged: ProfessionalDev

Started by Gail Braddock. Last reply by Demetri Orlando Jul 7.

Karen Hurd

Where Do You Find The Time for Social Media? 2 Replies

I realize I'm "preaching to the choir" by posting here, because if you are a member of this ning, you are probably also a member of other nings. And, you probably have a Twitter page and/or a Faceb...

Tagged: iste, Web 2.0, facebook, twitter, necc

Started by Karen Hurd. Last reply by Susan Carter Morgan Jul 6.

Andrea Fanjoy

Habits of Mind 2 Replies

We would like to introduce the Habits of Mind to our faculty next August. Does anyone know of any speakers/trainers who will come to Toronto, Ontario? Are there any other suggestions for resources...

Started by Andrea Fanjoy. Last reply by Andrea Fanjoy May 12.

Peter Gow

Ancient wisdom on professional development 3 Replies

In 1920 the head of the Park School of Baltimore was invited to tell a group of Boston parents about the latest in educational thinking and practice. By the time the evening was over, the parents h...

Tagged: Tweetcher, Beaver Country Day School, Twitter, Eugene Randolph Smith, Park School of Baltimore

Started by Peter Gow. Last reply by Marty Hankins Mar 27.

Ademola Popoola

Professional Development Plan 1 Reply

Good morning everyone. I'm the Technology Integration Specialist @ Sacred Heart School. SHS is a private, independent school on the north-side of Chicago. In addition to acting as the Technology l...

Started by Ademola Popoola. Last reply by Marty Hankins Mar 25.

Andrea Jenkins

International PD 2 Replies

Hi all. This is the time teachers at Trinity begin creating proposals for summer professional development grants. In the idea of thinking big, I am wondering what international PD opportunities are...

Started by Andrea Jenkins. Last reply by Sharon Lawrence Feb 6.

Demetri Orlando

RFP for a PD database 13 Replies

Do you use software to keep track of professional development? What features do you like about it. I've been looking around for a web-hosted solution for keeping track of our teachers' professiona...

Tagged: tracking, hours, development, professional, database

Started by Demetri Orlando. Last reply by Demetri Orlando Jan 29.

Sarah Hanawald

Has anyone tried Loti? 1 Reply

Hi all, I just added this page for Loti to the group diigo account. Here's a quote from the site: LoTi is a term referring to Dr. Moersch's Level of Technology Implementation Framework designed to ...

Started by Sarah Hanawald. Last reply by Cindy Marston Dec. 30, 2008.

Demetri Orlando

Successes & Failures 6 Replies

What have been your most successful P.D. experiences? And, since we often learn more from our mistakes than our successes, what have been your least useful forays into professional development?

Started by Demetri Orlando. Last reply by Laurie Bartels May. 30, 2008.

Beth Adamczyk

PD for one to one 3 Replies

I’d love to discuss PD for teachers about to embark on a one to one program. For the past four years I have been working with them on applications such as: Gradequick, Edline, SmartBoard, Google a...

Tagged: tablet pc, one to one

Started by Beth Adamczyk. Last reply by Trevor Shaw Feb. 25, 2008.

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Mark Hopkin Comment by Mark Hopkin on May 27, 2008 at 9:21am
I provide professional development for faculty at my college as well as teach pre-service teachers. Just thought I'd try to share a mp4 podcast on Bloom's Taxonomy. Your welcome to use or shareBloom's Taxonomy.m4a
 

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Demetri Orlando Alex Ragone Alex Inman Laurie Bartels Marty Hankins Mark Crotty Beth Adamczyk Peter Gow Sarah Hanawald Brad Gerring apoole@madeira.org Alison Cohen Andrea Fanjoy Page Lennig Susan Carter Morgan David Colon Jack Black arvind s grover Trevor Shaw Jamie Britto Brenda Trimble Cindy Marston Sharon Lawrence Andrea Jenkins Ademola Popoola Karen Hurd Gail Braddock Lucy Gray JP Culley Jane Boynton
 
 

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Here are the three short blurbs for the AIMS Technology Retreat program. Feed, a Must Read Anyone who works with or knows a teenager, a tweenager, or a pre-teen absolutely must read Feed by M. T. Anderson. Set in the near future, the author convin...
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Laurie, You are at the heart of what motivates adults to learn. Excellent. Most of my failure had to do with my inability to connect meaning, purpose, and passion to learning that helped teachers improve teaching (this means doing something diffe...
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Hi Preston, I think that PD – and this refers to all types of PD, not just PD related to technology – should encourage and support learning: • within one's area of expertise • within one's area of passion • that complement's one's area of experti...
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Thanks, Preston, for sharing the article on finding time. ~Laurie
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Time is our enemy, for sure. Sadly too much PD is designed around time and budgets. But honesty is encouraged here as well. Time is required as teachers deconstruct and construct ideas while creating predictability and control in ready-to-use mat...
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Thanks, Liz. We just haven't had much luck with getting teachers to give up those blocks, at least not on a consistent enough basis to make any real progress. I hope you see some real success in making this paradigm shift.
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It would come out of their free block. I'm planning to meet with them every two to three weeks for a semester.
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I used it pretty actively for about two years and ultimately found it more annoying than useful. Keeping a decent signal to noise ratio took too much care and time. I'm glad others find it wonderful, but it didn't really work for me.
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Where is the teacher's time coming from to engage in these more personalized approaches to PD? We would gladly do more of this sort of thing with teachers, but even those motivated to do so have a lot of trouble making time for them.
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December 14, 2009 from 1:30pm to 4:30pm
Making it real: A Workshop on Multicultural Competency Development in Every Classroom MONDAY, DECEMBER 14TH. 2009 1:30 A.M. – 4:30 P.M. Beaver Country Day School, Chestnut Hill, MA. Please spread the word - administrators (grades 6-12) will benef...
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