gaetc 2012

Building Capacity with the Technology Leadership Forum

SESSION: 165Salon 7

Thursday, November 8, 201212:15 – 1:15 p.m.

Kathy Politis, Director Instructional TechnologyMindy Ramon, Coordinator Technology Training

Susan Fisher, Humanities, Talented & GiftedHolly Berg, School Technology Specialist

GaETC 2012

Why do we need a

Technology Leadership

Forum?

Who areWe?

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What is the forum?

Who should be part of the forum?

How do you recruit participants?

How do you define passion?

•having or expressing strong emotionswordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

•Passion (from the Latin verb patior, meaning to suffer or to endure, also related to compatible) is an emotion

applied to a very strong feeling about a person or thing. Passion is an intense emotion compelling feeling,

enthusiasm, or desire for something. ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passionate

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How do you pick the educators who will have the greatest impact?

What happens at the TLF meetings?

Strength lesson design skills to help

colleagues to improve learning activities so they

reflect 21st Century learning.

Understand best

practices in technology integration

3 Pillars of TLF

• 10-20% 5-10%Theory

• 30-35 5-10%Demonstration of the strategy

• 60-70% 5-10%Hands on Practice

• 70-80 10-20%Feedback about teaching

• 80-90 80-90%Peer Coaching

Professional Learning Components Skills Attained Transfer to

On-the-Job

Effective Professional Learning

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Teaching with H.E.A.T

Project Based Learning

Tech tools to support Marzano’s strategies

Differentiated Instruction with DE

Digital Storytelling

Inspired Classroom

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Successes

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How TLF changed my classroom instruction

“Is just using it really a lofty goal?” Bernajean Porter

I now consider these two questions about every lesson plan I create:

1) How would you want to use your class time with your students?

2) What would be the best use of face time with you and for students to have with each other?

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• Teachers in a flipped setting send their knowledge home to students (and their families) as 5-15 minute videos.

• This frees up class time for students to work on homework, projects, and other assignments with the help of their teachers and peers.

• Kids learn at different paces and the videos allow them to press rewind over and over again. Kids who are out sick never have to miss critical content again.

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Collabornation Class Site

Choose Your Own Adventure

The emphasis for me was less about learning the latest and greatest technology tricksbut rather, looking honestly at what I was using and analyzing its worth for my students.

Flipping started my concept of designing the perfect “Dream Class” which is not onlyFlipped but also Inspired, Gamified, Project Based, and Differentiated!

Flipped “Dream Class” Results

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Unit 1Unit 3

Unit 1Unit 2Unit 3

• Total instructional days Saved in first nine weeks of School = 23 !!• Including 5 added Enrichment days!• Unit Tests also were 1-2 percent higher on average

Unit 1 = 20 versus 33

Unit 2 = 18 versus 21

Unit 3 = 12 versus 19

Coaching others• The biggest obstacles are being able to reach everyone and

making it relevant at the time of training.• Options: -Face to face whole group and small group

meetings.- Online format with interaction, such as Edmodo.- Through the use of an online resource for “on-demand”

learning, like Live Binder.

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Summer CampsMany of the technologies I learned about were incorporated into a camp for middle school students.

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What is one thing you will take away from this session?

Kathy Politispolitisster@gmail.com

Mindy Ramonramonm@fultonschools.org

Susan FisherFisherSu@fultonschools.org

Holly BergBergh@fultonschools.org

Speakers Contact Info:

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