Update site name and date on this slide prior to the training day.
Please add your name and email into this slide before presenting. Also mention the One-to-One Institute, what we do, and how we intend to support the school.
Please add site name on the slide. Kate will provide you with the pre-assessment results. Review the results with the participants in light of the agenda and what everyone hopes to accomplish during the Immersion Training.
Anonymous Introduction Exercise Everyone writes one dream and one concern on an index card (no names). Get into a circle and on the coaches count, throw cards into middle. Everyone picks up a card and take turns reading what is on the card. Presenter writes everything on large sticky post-it – 1 post-it for dreams and 1 post-it for concerns.
Create a tentative agenda prior to the training day. Make adjusts to the agenda at this point in the training based on the conversation you have during the review of the pre-assessment, the Anonymous Exercise and the Digital Coach Expectations slide.
Explain to the participants that this educational transformation is a journey, not a quickly achieved destination. The process should be taken slowly and steadily over the period of several years.
Moving from Teacher-centered, Artificial, basic skills to Student-Centered, Rea;-World, High-Order Thinking. This is a journey; do not expect to go from drill and practice to problem solving immediately. Just keep moving in the right direction. One way to do so is to use online tools. We will spend the remainder of the day providing you with several online tools; it is your job to sample from the buffet and determine which you think you can use in your classroom, in your lessons, with your students.
After you show the video, ask participants to describe what they saw. You will probably get pretty superficial answers. That is o.k. because you will discuss in more depth over the next couple of slides.
Start with a brief sharing of their throughts about their own lessons and the conversations they had with their table partner. Then discuss the following in conjunction with this slide: How do teachers know what content to teach and when to teach it? Is there a structure in place to help teachers share teacher-created lessons and projects? How can we ensure that instruction is less textbook driven and more driven on student inquiry?
Discussion: Class sizes are rising, students learn at different rates, and teachers are expected to teach more content. How can 1:1 computing help teachers do more with less resources and more challenges?
How can you involve parents? Community members? Ideas may include websites, podcasts, PTA meetings, invitations to help with projects, etc.
Discussion: Professional development has many forms…. Online webinars, collaborative teams looking at assessment data and designing lessons based on needs, book studies, iTunes U, etc. You’ll be asked to set your own learning goals and define what you will do to get there. Who will you work with? Who can you ask for help?
Give everyone a minute to read the cartoon (do not read it to them). When they start giggling, ask them to share what they feel about the current climate of standardized testing.
Discussion: There are many strategies to collect data. Brainstorm a list of possibilities of how you might collect data. Ideas may include: ticket out the door, surveys (Google forms or other), polls, multiple choice tests, projects assessed with a rubric, observation forms.
Find a unique way to engage participants in conversation or an activity around the elements of formative and summative assessment. There is a full description of Formative and Summative Assessment for your use in your Digital Coach Resources folder.
Explain to the participants that this educational transformation is a journey, not a quickly achieved destination. The process should be taken slowly and steadily over the period of several years.
Use the 21 st Century Skills PDF in your Digital Coach Resources folder to go over in depth each of the 21 st century skills in the chart above.
