Mountain+Ridge

PD Plan
What do we want teachers to walk away with? Motivation for transforming their teaching with Quadrant D in mind.

1) Kick-Off day Oct 7th to get teaches excited about 21st Century Learning, incorporating the Dr. Daggett video. -We will embed this video into a Prezi to give teachers exposure to a new tool. -Teachers will pair and share after the video and share their most powerful ideas thorugh LinoIt -We will end this meeting with an intro to our Tech Toolkit Month ... see below.

2) Tech Toolkit Month .. from Oct 7 to Thanksgiving Break ... Teachers learn a new tech tool and their name gets placed into a drawing placed in the office. Prizes might include gift cards to Best Buy, a flash drive, a free enhanced membership to Animoto or Glogster, etc.

3) Mini presentations by each cadre member on new tech tools, 21st Century Learning strategies, etc. at our regular Teacher Led Meetings. Each of these mini-presentations will iclude modeling ... Use Blabberize to explain what Blabberize is.

4) PD day in January, allowing teachers to choose a topic such as ... What is 21st Century Learning? What is Blended Learning? What are some of the tools out there that provide motivational pathways to 21st Century Learning? Teachers will get lots of hands-on time to create something they can use right away.

5) Include cadre members in our traditional SALSA meetings when possible.

Rubric - Student centered classroom/learning - Appropriate integration of technology, when it is enhancing learning - Student have some choice - Collaboration (teaching and learning) - Inquiry based teaching - Real world connections - Inventive - Democratic classroom -