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Free Registration to ITSC on 1/11/11 @ 11:11pm for 11 minutes
13Win a full registration to the February 20-22, 2011 Instructional Technology Strategies Conference in Portland, Oregon
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Advancing teaching and learning: capitalising on professional development
To continually improve on teaching and learning, you need to ensure your staff are equipped and skilled at delivering the latest initiatives. This means they need regular and ongoing professional development opportunities so that their practice continues to advance to the next level. This month’s Case in Point explores how to go about developing a comprehensive approach to professional development so that you maximise its potential to improve T&L, with the case study school here sharing how it has developed a collective and collaborative approach that has brought benefits at many levels.
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What Can We Give to Teachers to Make Them Better Teachers?
Being a teacher can be difficult: low pay, long hours, and the many challenges students bring into the classroom. If our teachers are going to be effective educators, we need to do a better job of keeping them happy. But what would teachers like to change to make their work life better? These are some of their responses.
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Jennifer Rabing
Project Goals: John F. Kennedy High School’s (JFK) Language Arts and Social Studies teachers are teaming with the Instructional Technology Coach to launch an iPad Literacy Project. Through the use of Apple’s iPad technology and web 2.0 wiki cloud applications, students will increase writing performance …
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Karen Babcock
Our regional EDTech Cadre will focus on Oregon Educational Technology Standard #2 – Communication and Collaboration. Key phrases for us from this standard are use digital media, communicate, work collaboratively, and contribute. Our goal is to improve writing performance. We will create a virtual writing …
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Kristi VanDooren
Project Goals: “Collecting, Collaborating, and Communicating in Science” The C3S project is designed to increase student learning in three areas: science, literacy, and technology. In order to accomplish this, the C3S project will provide crucial support in three components necessary for successful instructional improvement: Planning …
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Shannon Fernaeus
iPad Project- Gaffney Lane Elementary School from Shannon Fernaeus on Vimeo. Project Goals: Oregon City School District has piloted a digital classroom with 6th graders for the past three years in two of our elementary schools. We are continually investigating the possibility of using computers …
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Michelle Herburger
Pendleton School District Qwest Grant Overview Project Goals: The West Hill Writing Project is a comprehensive program designed to provide students with the skills to collaborate with peers, communicate learning and publish quality works of writing. Through the use of literature, journals, the writing process, …
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Have you tried QR-Codes? Try ours…
Try this QR Code if you dare! QR Huh? What The Heck Is A QR Code? via Steve Anderson’s Blog Why A QR Code: Because QR Codes can contain up to 4000 characters of information you can put a ton of information in just one …
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Paul Nelson
NW Regional Qwest Grant Overview Our regional EDTech Cadre will focus on Oregon Educational Technology Standard #2 – Communication and Collaboration. Key phrases for us from this standard are use digital media, communicate, work collaboratively, and contribute. Our goal is to improve writing performance. We …
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