Neit2010+Open+Space+5+N

NYPD

Fieldstone lower and ethical

Paid prof development for smart board newbies and those who had had them for a couple of years

Two different schools 2-4 days 2 days in June and 2 days in august

What to do?

Content or smart board skills and how to address the varied skill levels

Did a lot of basic stuff..don't take anything for granted

Decision for lots of smart board training for first two days

Google forms to interview faculty...lunch and learns

They don't know what they don't know

Peer to peer training results from having some expertise in the classroom

40-45 attendees plus administrators

For the more experienced teachers they got curriculum work time

One of the first time the two schools had talked about their curriculum and they have very different philosophies

Independent breakout work time after lunch based on interests

Gave everyone a USB with the basic files that they were using for demos

Discussing not just how to use the tools in lessons not just tools and tricks

Direct instruction vs investigation

Sb can be used for parts of a lesson, not the whole lesson

Did the more experienced ones create stuff that interacted with?

Science

2nd grade is Hudson river curric

Students researched and drew different elements of the ecosystem

Tech scanned everything in and then they used the sb as a station to explore different aspects of the river (clay, pen and paper, 3d maps, etc)

SMUG sb user group right before faculty meeting Set up google sites, share example lessons When do we use it and why?

Still a lot of philosophical conversations about the utility of this technology

ISSUES

What about the fifth time you do 1.0?

How do you pull in the anxious or unwilling teachers?

Make it really simple...do as much sharing as possible so they don't have to reinvent the wheel.

Idea of intrinsic motivation. Do you pay them in order to advance their own learning?

Everyone seems to have a wide range of ability levels.

Solomon Schecter has sbs in every class and teachers are very high level. Then there's a huge issue when they don't have a smart board because of dependence.

Beyond smart boards

In august, fieldstone/ethical repeated basics but also did googledocs and iLife, and more of a smorgasbord of technology.

How is technology incorporated into prof dev in your school?

In one school teachers set a series of goals with their dept head, and the tech staff backends certain teachers that really need a tech goal in their plan

In another the tech goals are part of your overall evaluation plan..and you are expected to get a certain amount of credits over 3 years in technology. They can take them in-house or conferences out of school. They are spreading this to the students as well.

At town: Surveys going out to faculty after a faculty retreat led by Alan November. So they had a lot of ideas and brought some enthusiasm to the game.

Most successful pd day with Michael wesch in the morning and then a show and share with lots of teachers showing off projects many of which used curriculum - people have asked for this again at his school.

Pester the people who were interested in particular tech initiatives, create email lists of people based on their interests to pester them.

Use department meetings to do little sound bites about how they have used certain technologies, or targeted certain goals (I.e. Executive function, four digit multiplication) without going into the tech how-to of what they are doing.

Sit in on department meetings - you can grab the teachable moments for teachers

Important for integrators or tech people

HOW TO TAKE THEM TO THE NEXT LEVEL

Is that really our issue? Isn't that a teaching issue? Administrator from turkey sends them to pd sessions outside the school. Ask teachers to break down the classroom walls Connect with other teachers Connect with other schools outside the NY area Example of fieldstone connecting with rural schooling Ohio Cross departmental collaboration

Encourage them to allow students to create content

Problem with always tapping the same expert teachers Provide them with resources - in fact encourage them to ask for resources Examples of flip cam to pe teacher, ipads to 7th grade teacher Sharing with faculty provides them with really good feedback from colleagues

Examples of classroom management tools for smart board

Encourage them to break it - we'll fix it.

Example at the chapin school of technology champions who get a stipend for this

Bring teachers to conferences, get them excited Teaching with technology NEIT

Time in classrooms Try and get the teacher to take the lead in the tech You do need to be there initially, but you can back off. Teachers want independence

EMAILS of people willing to join a google share for curriculum content for smart boards

Sstringer@churchillschool.com

deitch@rcsny.org

lhollis@ecfs.org

ickovitn@ramaz.org

mjackson@brearley.org