Giving Teachers Homework

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Giving Teachers Homework

• A Key Component of Professional Development for 1
  to 1 Teachers

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Who we are

• Carol Yeagley, 7th grade teacher
• Pat Yost, Instructional Technology
• State College Area School District
• 7300 students, K-12
• 1 HS, 2 MS, 10 Elem
• Weve begun the journey toward one-to-one

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Our Goals

• Get to a one-to-one computing ratio
• Use computer and projection technologies to
  enhance instruction and impact learning
• Give students tools with which they can be
  productive learners

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Our Status

• 2nd year-- 6th grade implementation teacher
  laptop, teacher video projector carts of student
  laptops (2 to 1 ratio)
• 1st year--other implementations
• teacher laptop, shared video projector, shared
  carts of student laptops (3-4 teachers) in
  various hs classrooms
• teacher laptop, shared video projector in various
  classrooms throughout the district

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Why homework?

• Component missing from typical training or
  workshop sessions
• Andwe dont actually call it homework

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Components of SCASD Professional Development

• OPTIONAL laptop/REQUIRED professional development
  
• Brief Summer Session
• Differentiated Instruction for teachers
• Teacher application of newly acquired skills and
  strategies
• Teacher Sharing Sessions

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C1 The Summer Session

• Receive laptop
• Set up mail account transfer files
• Learn to use wireless environment
• Teacher Assignment 1 Come back to school
  capable of using the trackpad!

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C2 Differentiated Instruction for teachers

• released time instruction
• half day instruction
• half day exploration/discussion and planning for
  a project.
• emphasis on professional development

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C2 Differentiated Instruction for teachers

• 3 year commitment
• year one Using PowerPoint for Instruction.
• year two Using the Internet for Instruction.
• year three Using Multimedia Tools to Demonstrate
  Learning.
• ongoing optional summer workshops

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C3 Teacher application of skills and strategies

• Assignment 2 Between instruction and sharing
  session (3 months), design a lesson that
  incorporates newly acquired skills and
  strategies, and test it out with students!

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C 4 Teacher Sharing Sessions

• Teacher Assignment 3 Show your work!
• Second released time day 13-16 teachers per
  session, across grades, schools and disciplines
• Half day sharing half day discussion and sharing
  via database

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The database for sharing

• Add lessons
• View lessons of other teachers, and download the
  files

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Some advice

• Use teachers work and LIVE teachers as examples
• Provide TIME for sharing
• Share across entities when possible

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Where to find our notes
www.scasd.org/one-to-one Click District Resources
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Questions/Discussion