Week 4 Assignment, Part 2: Professional Development Planning

Professional Development Goals	Professional Development Description
Tech Café What to Use, Why to Use It, When to Use It, & How	Teachers will attend a full-day Tech Café training in which they will travel through 4 different stations lasting approximately a hour and a half each. During this time, they will learn various hardware/software, why they should use it within their classrooms, when such tools would be appropriate for each 9 weeks' specific Essential Units of Study project-based learning, and how to immediately implement these tools into their own classrooms by allowing teachers time to work within each tool. Suggested stations would include: Student Presentations - Keynote vs. PowerPoint vs. Prezi iMovie - utilizing multimedia for student projects Glogster - online posters On-Line Collaboration Tools - Blogs vs. Wikis vs. Stixy
Eduphoria! AWARE Getting Your Student Data to Speak to You	Special Ed and General Ed teachers will learn the various reports available within the Eduphoria! Aware curriculum and data management system in a half-day training. They will be able to manipulate their actual student data to determine areas of strength and weakness so they may begin goal setting and planning interventions and enrichment lessons for their students.
Fab, Fun, & Free Simple On-Line Tools Teachers Really Need	Teachers wil be introduced to over 60 different interactive websites that provide both teacher and student resources in an afterschool special. Such topics as PDF conversion tools, Wordle Art, Spelling City, Quizlet, and many more will be discussed and teachers allowed to explore those that would most benefit their classroom technology integration.