This course is for Charleroi Staff only.
This course is for teachers in grades K-12 and meets the following professional development criteria: content knowledge, teaching skills, analyze and use data, and reading comprehension.
Participants will participate in all classroom activities, complete a technology based lesson plan and an action plan for implementing 21st century instructional strategies.
Participants will also be assessed using a multiple choice pre and post assessment. Scores on the post assessment must be at least 80%.
The swift changes in technology and communication that have been affecting business have also created opportunities for school districts to utilize new methods to improve student achievement. The district is committed to providing a quality professional development program that focuses on the best practices as dictated by research and meets the needs of the individual teacher. Teachers will be able to use the most current technology in order to supplement their curriculum as means of presenting our students with the most current research and practices in order to improve student achievement. Teachers will learn technology based instructional strategies so that they will be able to present opportunities for our students that will be limitless and not controlled by the boundaries of the classroom or the constraints of a building budget.
The first session in this course will begin with the teachers using the Polyvision board to integrate 21st century resources with the goal of technology integration into the curriculum. Teachers will utilize whiteboard technology to create interactive lessons. The next session will consist of the teachers developing lesson plans using web 2.0 resources. The third session will require teachers to use the SMART Classroom Performance Systems as a data analysis and assessment tool. They will create lessons integrating this software in the classroom to generate instant feedback from the students. Time will be spent generating reports and analyzing the data. At the conclusion of this session teachers will be able to analyze classroom performance data. The fourth session will require teachers to create webquests and digital stories using a variety of media. Teachers will be required to create a culminating project.
