Statement
of Purpose
After
conducting a needs assessment, I found that the staff wanted some professional development
and explore the technology to determine how it can be implement it in to their
classes. The overall concept of using a universal note taking system used by
the district as a whole will help students and teachers to streamline learning,
by making note taking and resources available at any time because of the
internet and because of the available multiple platform access that students
will have. This Web 2.0 tool can “utilized by skillful teachers, can
promote student learning and facilitate the development of lifelong skills such
as collaboration, creative thinking and knowledge construction” (Martin &
Mims, 2009). This
will give both students and staff a consistency that they crave (Martin et al.,
2010). This technology would be ideal for students and staff in the high school
setting. From the survey, the teachers would like to see three things happen:
(1) one to learn about the features that this software has and what it is
capable of; (2) how can this technology be used in the classroom; and (3) how
can students use it in and out of the classroom. It was determined that some
sort of workshop, during the school day, would be the best way to introduce and
train teachers on how to use the technology. A team of teachers will be trained
at a central location for the district. A few teachers, by either volunteering
or selected by administration, will participate in a workshop to give them
resources and to explore the technology, Microsoft OneNote, so that they may
develop and understanding to take better to their respective schools and hold
professional development during the school day. The staff development workshop
will provide hands-on exploration of OneNote to streamline note taking in the
whole school district.
Learner
Outcomes
Next,
we want to determine after conducting some sort of workshop, the outcomes for
staff learning the technology. In other words, how will we know that a teacher
has grasp the software and is prepared to take it to the class room for
implementation. What we determined as an appropriate level of mastery is that the
learner will be able to create a notebook, add content to it, and then share it
with others. It is believed that these three things will give the teacher a
basic knowledge of the software before the each individual teacher will have to
explore the software for themselves. We know that students will be able to
learn the basics needed, there will have to be support for students outside of
class to master the technology, but a first level of help will be the teacher.
Delivery
Mechanisms
A
workshop schedule will be planned for time line of implementation. Each
workshop will be planned using a variety of resources and tools to deliver the
learning of the technology to the staff. As described before, there will be a
serious of workshop and demonstration to help staff learn the software from
each other, teaching is the best way to learn something. It will be determined
by administration who will be the best at learning about the software first.
Then, those staff members will take it back to their respective schools to pass
on what they have learned to their fellow colleagues (Bold, 2011). Each
workshop will be introduced to resources provided by the company, they are free
to educators, staff will be introduced to the software, and then a
demonstration where staff will be lead by a member of the workshop staff to
develop notebooks, notes, and then being able to share that with someone else,
students or faculty.
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