My Technology Staff
Development Curriculum is on trying to develop a common note taking procedure through
a school, and ultimately the school district. The web-based software that I
have chosen to implement is Microsoft
OneNote 2013. I think that it would be a great idea for our school district
to streamline the note taking experience, make it common among the courses
offered, which I believe will ultimately give students a resource that can be
with them throughout their academic and potentially their professional career.
Microsoft's OneNote 2013 is a note taking software that is used on all platforms. Whether
a student or staff member has an iPhone, iPad, Android, Amazon, or Windows
operating system on their device, a free application has already been designed
to utilize the software and give access to resources.
There will be
formative and summative assessments developed for this curriculum. For the
formative assessments, there will be two survey type assessments that will be
developed. This will give staff a chance to indicate what they have learned and
are comfortable with meeting the objectives. There will also be a summative
assessment constructed to examine whether participants have attained
understanding of OneNote 2013
environment and the features it poses. Ultimately, the opportunity to take an
exam that is offered through Microsoft will be the ideal summative exam which
recognizes that the text taker has proven that they understand OneNote 2013 according to Microsoft’s
standard (which would be the ideal benchmark). This exam is one of their many
certification exams that the company has developed. It is certification exam
number 77-421.
Curriculum Timeline
Below is the timeline I have
constructed that take approximately six (6) weeks to complete. A needs assessment will be administered
before the workshop begins to engage participants in to evaluating the concept
of having a uniformed note taking process. The six week timeline will give participants
or staff the ability to research and use at their convenience to explore and
come up with any questions that might be generated:
Ø Week1:
Teacher Basics
Ø Week 2
and 3: Teacher Scenarios
Ø Week 4
and 5: Administrator
Ø Week
6: Additional Resources
Ø Post-Workshop:
Reflection
Formative
Evaluation
Another way for checking for
understanding is using formative assessments. In James Popham’s Seven Stepping Stones to Success, he
describes formative assessments as “a planned process that uses assessments to inform changes
in instruction or learning.” While someone is being taught a concept, formative
assessments lets an instructor or facilitator know whether the participants are
grasping the concepts. If there needs to be any variance in the instruction,
then it can be applied before it is too late and the audience is lost.
For this workshop, there will be two formative
assessments developed for this technology professional development curriculum.
It will focus on four objectives: Managing the OneNote 2013 Environment, Sharing and Collaborating with Other
Users, Organizing and Finding Notes, and Editing and Linking Content in OneNote 2013. The two formative
assessments will be administered online using the web site Quia. The
assessments can be accessed through the links formative
assessment #1
and formative assessment #2. The assessments will inquire
from the workshop participant about their comfort level with features and tools
in the software based off the objectives of the workshop.
Summative
Evaluation
Summative assessments help
teachers indicate who has mastered material presented in a lesson. In Rick
DuFour and Rick Stiggins’s Maximizing the Power of Formative Assessments,
they conclude that summative assessments are important because they “summarize
what students have learned by a deadline.”
For this workshop, there will be
one summative assessment for this technology professional development
curriculum. It will assess whether participants are able to use the features of
OneNote 2013 and apply it to use in the class room. If a student finds that
this is not the right tool to use in their class room or that they want more
professional development opportunities, then they indicate that here. The one
summative assessments will be administered online using the web site Quia. The
assessment can be accessed through the link summative
assessment. The
assessment will inquire from the workshop participant about their opinion on
the technology and whether it is a useful digital technology and if it can be
used in their class. The participant will also have the opportunity to suggest
information on other technologies that might be more beneficial to the participants.
Reflection
on Dispositions
During the creation of this
Application, I believe that I now better understand the process of creating a
timeline and evaluations for a technology staff development workshop that would
make me a more effective technology leader. While I was researching the
technology, I found many resources and examples of workshops and curriculums
that would help me in teaching this particular technology to a group of
teachers. I think that other teachers, who gain the skill and knowledge that I
have gained, would embrace this technology and understand why I think that
students who use this will benefit from it. This new technology, which has
enormous capabilities to reach different students from different backgrounds
and learning styles, will bring both staff and students together and create
opportunities for an improved learning environment. If we can stay current on
the technologies that are available and we use in education, we will not only
impress the people outside of the academic landscape, but we will also impress
the students that we teach and give them the skills and knowledge to succeed.
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