Professional Development
Many Opportunities for Support
Your integrators can support you in a number of ways:
Individual or team meetings: While we can prepare customized PD to offer during team preps or meetings, we can also attend as quiet participants. Listening to a team's current focus and needs allows us to help those teachers brainstorm and plan (sometimes with tech solutions, but not always). This is a low-commitment option for teachers that has borne significant fruit in the past.
Tech residency: This has tremendous potential for positive collaboration. We can work with you to design focused classroom visits over several weeks to help collect data, offer a second set of eyes and ears, co-teach lessons, and assist you as you work on tech goals in your instruction. Perhaps we co-plan a unit or applied learning project with you and assist in carrying it out.
After-school PD: We offer sessions on various topics throughout the year. Thanks to Google Meet, PD sessions can often be offered online to extend our reach to other schools in the district. See the calendar on this page to look for upcoming workshops. If there is something you would like to see offered after school, please let us know.
Customized digital PD: This is an easy way to access PD. Learn about topics of interest, implement a plan to try them, and report on the result. This Learning-Action-Reflection model can be as involved as you want them to be, and your integrator can you plan. Use the LAR form to plan and document your learning for contact hours.