Training+Ideas

Tech Training Ideas Used by Schools Attending Mohonk 2007

1. Faculty workshops 2. Gow School has different departments reinforce different skills. 3. Gow, one week of training every summer 4. KLHT TD meets with teachers on regular basis, built into schedule (eats up free periods) “explicit, scheduled training” 5. AJH did pilot program of excusing senior staff from inservice – killed by administration, 6. Professional day at Allen-Stevenson school, without breakout sessions. for a day at school (did on Veterans Day). Expert teachers ran all sessions 7. Working through more facile teachers. Other teachers see what is going on and choose to adopt or not. Have set of tools, then have “unique solutions” depending on the strengths of the teachers. 8. Greens Farms, Create a tool kit for each teacher and put it on their desktops. 9. Greens Farms Weekly meetings with faculty and administration. Scheduled fifteen minute session one on one. 10. Do all teachers have to use technology? Can you still be a good teacher and not be a technology innovator? 11. Faculty teacher style survey 12. Apple store training $80 for a year, 52 one hour sessions (one per week, must be the same person) 13. Teachers train each other in some one to one sessions 14. Teachers stay in lab with kids during kids’ lessons and coordinate projects with tech teacher 15. Have every teacher bring a class of their choosing to the lab once a week for a tech project. 16. Identify one person in every department to get extra technology, and then present in department meetings 17. Department chairs nominate a tech go to person for teachers to meet with when they have questions 18. Every teacher must do a tech related project with their classes every year 19. Tech institute, a week in the summer and teachers apply to it and get paid to be there. “Gets the willing going” 20. Meet with lower school teachers by grade for 40 minutes a week for curriculum development

What is working well?

One-on-One with tech dept personnel, 15 minutes per week

Training of new staff during pre service

The tech in-services work well as an overview – could use better follow up (see add. needs)

Additional Needs / Improvements:

After group training could teachers be given 3-5 hours to practice either by themselves or one-on-one with another teacher

Pair up teachers with mentors (people who have more tech experience - for example with somebody who has done Smart/Active Boards, Keynote etc)

Small training sessions during morning meeting time; three to one, for certain applications, Excel, Kurzweil, Word, E-mail, Internet use

At end of school year we could survey teachers what they still need to learn and what they would like to learn.

Possible Apples Store training $80 for a year, for 52 one-hour sessions

Identify one person in every department to find ways to use technology in a new way    and then present in department meetings.

Tech institute, a week in the summer or spring, and teachers apply to and get incentive by either being paid to be there or other comp like an additional personal day.

Better way to share expertise? (Jenn and Shari’s survey…)