5.2 Professional Learning
Candidates develop and implement technology-based professional learning that aligns to state and national professional learning standards, integrates technology to support face-to-face and online components, models principles of adult learning, and promotes best practices in teaching, learning, and assessment. (PSC 5.2/ISTE 4b)
Artifact: One-Hour Technology Workshop
Reflection
For this artifact, I planned and implemented an hour-long professional development workshop on an instructional technology tool, Quizizz. In addition to planning and implemented, I created a webpage resource including my presentation, electronic handouts, and other resources. At the end of the workshop, I administered a survey to analyze the effectiveness of my workshop and determine next steps.
For this artifact, I developed and implemented technology-based professional learning that aligns to state and national professional learning standards and TKES about the formative assessment tool Quizizz. My workshop integrated technology to support face-to-face and online components with additional resources and handouts hosted on a teacher-created web resource. Through this workshop, I was able to model and practice principles of adult learning, in addition to promoting best practices in teaching, learning, and assessment.
While this was not the first time I implemented professional learning, this was my first experience implementing a school-wide workshop at a new school. Learning the school culture and my audience (the staff) was integral to designing an effective workshop. I worked alongside my instructional technology coach and PLC lead to determine a need for the staff. In addition to gaining experience with leading a professional development workshop, I particularly learned how to and gain practice in leading better professional development for teachers. I can tell I have grown as a teacher of adults from the time of my last professional development workshop last semester (although I admit, I enjoy teaching students over adults still!)
If I could do this workshop differently, I would have done a better job at promoting the workshop and its topic. It was not as widely as attended as I had hoped, and the majority of the attendees were my own department. While the survey results did not show this, I also personally felt like a talked too quickly and hurried over portions I should have slowed down my explanation and teacher practice.
Through this artifact, I was able to give teachers an additional tool to formatively assess and engage their students. My workshop is part of a yearlong school initiative to introduce best practices for personalized learning in my school before our one-to-one initiative roles out. The impact can be assessed through teacher surveys (as it was at the end of my workshop) and future surveys and/or walkthroughs to determine how many teachers have utilized the tool in their own classrooms. Through the personalize learning initiative, student learning and growth should only increase.
For this artifact, I planned and implemented an hour-long professional development workshop on an instructional technology tool, Quizizz. In addition to planning and implemented, I created a webpage resource including my presentation, electronic handouts, and other resources. At the end of the workshop, I administered a survey to analyze the effectiveness of my workshop and determine next steps.
For this artifact, I developed and implemented technology-based professional learning that aligns to state and national professional learning standards and TKES about the formative assessment tool Quizizz. My workshop integrated technology to support face-to-face and online components with additional resources and handouts hosted on a teacher-created web resource. Through this workshop, I was able to model and practice principles of adult learning, in addition to promoting best practices in teaching, learning, and assessment.
While this was not the first time I implemented professional learning, this was my first experience implementing a school-wide workshop at a new school. Learning the school culture and my audience (the staff) was integral to designing an effective workshop. I worked alongside my instructional technology coach and PLC lead to determine a need for the staff. In addition to gaining experience with leading a professional development workshop, I particularly learned how to and gain practice in leading better professional development for teachers. I can tell I have grown as a teacher of adults from the time of my last professional development workshop last semester (although I admit, I enjoy teaching students over adults still!)
If I could do this workshop differently, I would have done a better job at promoting the workshop and its topic. It was not as widely as attended as I had hoped, and the majority of the attendees were my own department. While the survey results did not show this, I also personally felt like a talked too quickly and hurried over portions I should have slowed down my explanation and teacher practice.
Through this artifact, I was able to give teachers an additional tool to formatively assess and engage their students. My workshop is part of a yearlong school initiative to introduce best practices for personalized learning in my school before our one-to-one initiative roles out. The impact can be assessed through teacher surveys (as it was at the end of my workshop) and future surveys and/or walkthroughs to determine how many teachers have utilized the tool in their own classrooms. Through the personalize learning initiative, student learning and growth should only increase.