Professional+Development

=**Professional Development Plan**=

** 1.  ****  Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity  ** b**. Engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources. **  a. Current Abilities: We have access to Safari Montage, the Internet, and our school library to do research on topics that we are teaching in our classroom. We also have programs such as Renzulli and Kidspiration. b. Need: I do a social studies lesson every year called Where in the World is Flat Stanley. We send our very own Stanleys into the world and when he returns we learn about his visit. I always have a really nice turnout! I need my Stanley to go to more continents. c. Goal: To have a Flat Stanley visit every continent. d. Measure: I will have a Flat Stanley visit each continent and have information returned to me about his visit. e. Short Term Plan: Try to contact teachers, scientists, and government workers in other countries to see if they are interested in participating in this project. f. Long Term Plan: I want to have an entire classroom from another continent be pen pals with my students. I want us to not only write but also possibly chat and Skype!

** 2.  ****  Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments  ** a. Current Abilities: I use the computer program success maker, as part of my principal’s requirement, in computer lab to give my students more help in math and reading. I set him or her up in a program and set the time limit in each subject. b. Need: I need to give my students more help in specific areas that they are struggling in. c. Goal: Give my students more individualized instruction in success maker. d. Measure: Success maker will allow me to give students extra questions in the areas they are struggling in and it has reports that I can check to assess student progress. e. Short Term Plan: Meet with Shelly Overall, our success maker trainer and the instructional technology specialist, and learn how to personalize success maker for each student. f. Long Term Plan: Provide each student with a personalized success maker lesson and update it often in relation to his or her needs.
 * c. Customize and personalize learning activities to address students' diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources. **

** 3.  ****  Model Digital-Age Work and Learning  ** ** c. Communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation. **  a. Current Abilities: I have a smart board in my classroom. During student led conferences I allow students to show their parents how to use the smart board. b. Need: To share technology that I know about with parents and peers. I am currently only sharing it with my students. c. Goal: I want to initiate a parent night that features technology in our classrooms. d. Measure: Schedule, plan, and have a technology parent night after our intelligent classrooms are set up. e. Short Term Plan: To show parents how the technology works at an after school technology night at the school. All classroom teachers would participate. f. Long Term Plan: Have an annual technology night. In the future the students would run it and teach their parents how to use the technology as well.

** 4.  ****  Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility   ** ** c. Promote and model digital etiquette and responsible social interactions related to the use of technology and information. **  a. Current Abilities: Three to four lessons specifically about digital citizenship are taught to my first grade class. I send home information on fliers to parents about digital citizenship. b. Need: Cyber bullying is becoming more and more common. My parents need to be better informed of the implications of information we put on the Internet and making sure their child is safe when using the Internet at home. c. Goal: To inform my parents about digital citizenship. d. Measure: Parents will attend a meeting where I discuss digital citizenship. All students and parents in my class will sign and return a handout sharing the information discussed in the meeting. e. Short Term Plan: To have digital contracts designed and have each parent and student sign it before they can use the computers at school. f. Long Term Plan: To have school wide digital citizenship contracts. I will share the importance of digital safety and responsibility at a PTA meeting. ** 5.  ****  Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership. ** **  d. Contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self-renewal of the teaching profession and of their school and community. **  a. Current Abilities: I send home information to parents through email, newsletters, and fliers in Thursday Folders. I have a website on the Norman Public School website. I have a wiki on wikispaces.com. I have a blog on blogspot.com. b. Need: Our PTA at our school is lacking. I want to improve parent involvement throughout the entire school. I cannot send paper copies to each parent in the whole school. I need an economical and electronic way to contact parents about school events and free opportunities for their children in the community. c. Goal: To improve the quality of the parent involvement at our school. d. Measure: Keeping track of parents signed up for the mass email. Check the number of parent responding to the mass emails. e. Short Term Plan: Contact Lee Nelson to find out how to do it. I will send out information to parents about signing up for a school email service. Instead of getting paper notifications, they can sign up for email notifications. First, I will get my own class up and running. f. Long Term Plan: Is to recruit other teachers to sign parents up for their weekly newsletter instead of a paper newsletter. Have the majority of our parents getting an electronic school newsletter. Once that is established I will partner with our PTA officers to plan parent notifications through a mass email.