5.2 Professional Learning
Candidates develop and implement technology-based professional learning that aligns to state and national professional learning standards, integrates technology to support face-to-face and online components, models principles of adult learning, and promotes best practices in teaching, learning, and assessment. (PSC 5.2/ISTE 4b)
The artifact chosen to demonstrate my mastery of standard 5.2 is my one-hour technology workshop I created to teach faculty how to create a class webpage using Weebly. Through the professional development presentation teachers were introduced to relevant and practical uses and benefits of developing a class webpage. They were given time to apply their learning and were offered my help to troubleshoot and offer suggestions as they built their webpages. This assignment was completed as a course requirement for ITEC 7460 and was presented in the fall of 2014.
Standard 5.2, Professional Learning, requires candidates to develop and implement technology-based learning that aligns to state and national learning standards, integrates technology to support face-to-face and online components, models principles of adult learning, and promotes best practices in teaching, learning, and assessment. This artifact demonstrates my ability to develop and implement professional learning over the webpage creation tool Weebly by aligning the workshop to the Learning Forward national standards and ISTE Teacher standards. The one-hour workshop was delivered in a face-to-face environment and is where teachers discovered the most beneficial components of a class webpage and then given time to build their webpage with my assistance. Teachers were then provided an online module that I created in which they could refer to when continuing to build their webpage on their own. The development and implementation of this artifact took into consideration principles of adult learning, and models these principles by making this artifact relevant to their practice. I wanted to present them with something that they could immediately use in their classrooms and would be beneficial to their students and potentially improve parental involvement. This professional learning also promotes best practices in teaching, learning, and assessment by listing essential questions, activating prior knowledge, and providing multiple representations and examples of the information.
Through this project, I learned that it takes a significant amount of time and planning when preparing for effective professional development. I also learned that offering professional development that is not job embedded makes it more difficult for teachers to participate. However, the willing participants expressed a positive learning experience and seeing the pieces of the presentation come together was an eye opening experience. If I were to change something about my presentation I would incorporate it into the school day and possibly over a few days to provide ample time for teachers to complete a well working webpage. I would also encourage grade level teams to collectively create webpages for all the students on one grade level to ease webpage maintenance.
Integration of technology into instructional practices clearly has the potential to positively impact professional development, student learning, and parental involvement. From this presentation, I was able to share a valuable resource with my peers that would ease the process of creating a class webpage. This has an impact on the school improvement process and can be assessed by observing how many teachers have created and maintained a class webpage and how many students and parents use the resource.
Standard 5.2, Professional Learning, requires candidates to develop and implement technology-based learning that aligns to state and national learning standards, integrates technology to support face-to-face and online components, models principles of adult learning, and promotes best practices in teaching, learning, and assessment. This artifact demonstrates my ability to develop and implement professional learning over the webpage creation tool Weebly by aligning the workshop to the Learning Forward national standards and ISTE Teacher standards. The one-hour workshop was delivered in a face-to-face environment and is where teachers discovered the most beneficial components of a class webpage and then given time to build their webpage with my assistance. Teachers were then provided an online module that I created in which they could refer to when continuing to build their webpage on their own. The development and implementation of this artifact took into consideration principles of adult learning, and models these principles by making this artifact relevant to their practice. I wanted to present them with something that they could immediately use in their classrooms and would be beneficial to their students and potentially improve parental involvement. This professional learning also promotes best practices in teaching, learning, and assessment by listing essential questions, activating prior knowledge, and providing multiple representations and examples of the information.
Through this project, I learned that it takes a significant amount of time and planning when preparing for effective professional development. I also learned that offering professional development that is not job embedded makes it more difficult for teachers to participate. However, the willing participants expressed a positive learning experience and seeing the pieces of the presentation come together was an eye opening experience. If I were to change something about my presentation I would incorporate it into the school day and possibly over a few days to provide ample time for teachers to complete a well working webpage. I would also encourage grade level teams to collectively create webpages for all the students on one grade level to ease webpage maintenance.
Integration of technology into instructional practices clearly has the potential to positively impact professional development, student learning, and parental involvement. From this presentation, I was able to share a valuable resource with my peers that would ease the process of creating a class webpage. This has an impact on the school improvement process and can be assessed by observing how many teachers have created and maintained a class webpage and how many students and parents use the resource.