netp3.0teaching


 * NETP 3.0 Teaching**

3.0 Teaching Professional educators will be supported individually and in teams by technology that connects them to data, content, resources, expertise, and learning experiences that enable and inspire more effective teaching for all learners. To meet this goal, we recommend the following actions: 3.1 Design, develop, and adopt technology-based content, resources, and online learning communities that create opportunities for educators to collaborate for more effective teaching, inspire and attract new people into the profession, and encourage our best educators to continue teaching. 3.2 Provide pre-service and in-service educators with preparation and professional learning experiences powered by technology that close the gap between students’ and educators’ fluencies with technology and promote and enable technology use in ways that improve learning, assessment, and instructional practices. 3.3 Transform the preparation and professional learning of educators and education leaders by leveraging technology to create career-long personal learning networks within and across schools, pre-service preparation and in-service educational institutions, and sprofessional organizations. 3.4 Use technology to provide access to the most effective teaching and learning resources, especially where they are not otherwise available, and to provide more options for all learners at all levels. 3.5 Develop a teaching force skilled in online instruction.


 * REACTIONS & THOUGHTS:**
 * Remember that Elementary is very different from secondary and needs different teacher support/equipment support
 * Different educational approaches
 * Different starting place with tech literacy (many don't know what a ning or wiki even is).
 * Wireless as a focal point for this discussion. Of the buildings that have it, some aren't even beginning to use it. Seems like a microcosm for all tech issues. So what issues does this touch on?
 * We need **time** for PD
 * 3.3 **Transform the current time** to include more teaching time
 * Wednesday's don't cut it
 * No tech PD since PEBC...6 years
 * Tech is currently dependent on volunteered time from the more tech-savvy staff members
 * Current development is almost totally independent and unsupported
 * PD360 is terribly underutilized, should be directed by Admin--and held accountable by admin
 * **TECH PD needs to support differentiated needs among staff**
 * E2T2 was positive example of staff collaboration, critical discussion, differentiated tech integration learning and projects, time utilized productively, etc
 * PLCs don't seem to meet the needs of PD b/c
 * Not sustained through the year
 * Not consistent
 * Not often enough
 * 3.2 Provide in-service: we should be deliberate in developing tech integration
 * **Technology should not be optional; we need to hold people accountable for integrating**
 * Tech integration is happening //despite// the system instead of b/c of the system
 * Modes of communication (blogs, wikis, etc.) that we expect students to use should be used by staff
 * Solutions/Steps
 * How do we raise the relevance of communication (blogs, wikis, nings, etc.) to drive teachers to those tools (e.g., school/district moodle page).
 * Increase awareness of what is out there, e.g., PD360
 * Release the need/responsibility of being the expert in every technology
 * **Be the expert thinker not the expert with a particular tech tool, e.g., Cognitive Coaching**
 * Easy access to data
 * Practice using the tools, tech,
 * TIME for conversations/learning/practice
 * STAFF that know how to support teacher development