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Learn how to create an Educational Technology Integration Plan that will set your school district up for a successful PD Program today!
Today's Agenda
- What do Tech Coaches Do?
- The All Important First Few Days
- Making Relationships With Your Teachers
- What is an EdTech Integration Plan?
- Providing Professional Development That Works
- Making an Impact In & Out of the Classroom
Workshop Description
During this session, we will take a look at several items that are needed to complete and execute an effective digital literacy plan.
Technology Integration Plans, designed with input from students, staff members, tech coaches, and school district leaders, are created around and designed to meet all of the national and ISTE standards to provide a well-rounded education for all students.
What do I hope you learn today?
Tech Coaches
- What is the role of the Tech Coach in your school district & in the classroom?
- How to be successful both in front of teachers & administrators
- How to reach out for help to other Tech Coaches when you need to vent
Administrators
- How to set up your Tech Coaches for success in the classroom
- How to work with your teachers so that your Tech Coach can be successful in fulfilling your goals
Workshop Resources
In this workshop, we will be using a variety of resources:
- TeacherCast Tech Coaches Network
- Ask the Tech Coach Podcast
- Teach Coaches Mastermind
- @AskTheTechCoach
Using Google Classroom ...
* Download this Group Discussion Question Worksheet and answer each of the questions.
Using Google Classroom ...
* Download the EdTech Integration Plan Brainstorming Template and put your ideas on "paper".
Using Google Classroom ...
* Download the Edtech Essential Question Worksheet and begin brainstorming the focal point of your professional development program.
* Use the words that you wrote down on your Post-it notes to help you formulate answers.
4) Surveying Your Staff
Using Google Classroom ...
* Download the Technology Integration Survey Google Form and create a simple survey that you can give to your staff members to get an idea of how they see Technology being used in their classrooms.
Using Google Classroom ...
* Download the "What does a Staff Member Need To Know" Google Docs Template and fill it out based on your school districts needs.
Using Google Classroom ...
* Download the "The Professional Learning Roadmap" Google Docs Template and fill it out based on your school districts needs.
Using Google Classroom ...
* Download the "EdTech Menu" Google Docs Template and fill it out based on your districts needs.
Using Google Classroom ...
* Download the "PD Lesson Plan" Google Docs Template and fill it out based on your school districts needs.
Using Google Classroom ...
* Download the "Professional Badging" Google Docs Template and fill it out based on your school districts needs.
Using Google Classroom ...
* Download the "EdTech Integration Action Plan Worksheet" Google Docs Template and fill it out based on your school districts needs.
Using Google Classroom ...
* Download the "Making Recommendations To Your Administration" Google Docs Template and fill it out based on your school districts needs.
12) Creating Your Final EdTech Integration Plan
* Download the "Tech Coach EdTech Plan Workshop: Tech Integration One-Sheet Worksheet" Google Docs Template and fill it out based on your school districts needs.
* Download the "Tech Coach EdTech Plan Workshop: Final Tech Integration Plan Worksheet" Google Docs Template and fill it out based on your school districts needs.
Ask the Tech Coach
Ask the Tech Coach is a weekly podcast designed to support Tech Coaches and Instructional Technology Specialists. Each week Jeff Bradbury (TeacherCast Educational Network) and Sue Vincentz (Tech Imaginations) discuss relevant topics in Educational Technology.
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With over 18 years of teaching professionally in the classroom and over 800 educational podcasts recorded, Jeff Bradbury is a world-known educator, podcaster, and clinician.
Jeff is a Google for Education Certified Trainer, Microsoft Certified Trainer TEDx Speaker, and has worked with more than 400 educational technology companies through his TeacherCast Educational Network that he founded in 2011.
Jeff Bradbury has presented at the ISTE conference, as well as dozens of other conferences across the country and has presented Keynote Presentations for Pearson and EdTechNJ.
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