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All ready a month! Goals for Technology Professional Development

September 10, 2008

If you can believe it we have all ready been in school for a month. As I travel around to the schools in my cluster, I am formulating professional development options for each school. Its a lot like following an IEP. Each school is very different in how the teachers like to receive professional development, whether its after school, during planning, before school or when ever they can get it.

This time of year leaves my head swimming with ideas of tech-savvy kids in my head or the hope there are tech-savvy kids on our schools. How can we meet their needs? Or better yet, how can I meet the needs of the teachers to meet the needs of the students? That is a big task.

So this year, my goal for my schools is to bring a more personalized touch. Bring technology professional development teachers can use… don’t just show up with a new ‘tool.’  Show up with standards-based activities to place in the teacher’s hand or shared drive so a teacher can use now! Of course there is some “training” that will have to take place in the traditional sense but overall I want to create activities that are ready to use.

The balance will be… interesting to say the least. I am supposed to spend 80% of my time in the schools working with teachers and students. That leaves 20% to plan and learn. Guess what? Meetings take up 20%. When I do the math that doesn’t add up. Can anyone tell me how that adds up?

 Image Credits: Jill Greenseth.Goals.<http://flickr.com/photos/blah_oh_well/1472885631/sizes/l/>

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