Designing Engaging PD Opportunities For Teachers

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William King

• Freshman Principal at Bowling Green HS

• Co-Founder TeachMeet Kentucky

• TeachMeet Nashville & New Jersey

• wkingbg - Gmail, Twitter, Instagram, G+

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Out with professional development and in

with professional learning

Lyn Hilt@lynhilt

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We Need Teachers to: • Be active participants in the learning process • Determine what content is important to learn• Decide how they will best learn and implement this content• Collaborate with others in communities of learning• Assume leadership roles in the learning process

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What Professional Learning Looks Like...

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• Free to attendees

• Short Sessions (2, 7, 15, 20 minutes)

• Volunteers to lead sessions (scheduled)

• Anyone can present!

• Encourage the rule of two feet

• Shorts and T-shirts

• SmackDown (2 min to share a tool/strategy)

• Teachers pick their sessions to meet their PD

TeachMeets

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EDcamp

• Free to attendees

• Sessions are usually one hour or more

• Sessions are determined the day of the event

• Anyone can present!

• Informal attire

• Teachers pick their sessions to meet their PD needs

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Professional Learning Network

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Get your teachers on Twitter!

• 24/7 access to educators

• 24/7 opportunities for professional learning

• Get ideas for your classroom

• Stay current in your !eld

• Collaborate with professionals

• Involve your students

• Backchannel during class, meetings

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Twitter Chats

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• Instruction via video, podcast, webpage• Job embedded coaching• Face to face support• Time for re"ection • Teacher directed (via Google Forms)

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Tools for Flipped Learning

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Other ideas for Job-Embedded PD

• Lunch and Learn

• Apps and Appetizers

• Release Time

• Tech Tuesday

• Tool Smackdown

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My Favorite tools for 1:1 and BYOD

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Evernote• Note Taking App/Program• Digital Filing Cabinet

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Evernote

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Evernote

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Evernote

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Evernote

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Google Apps

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Padlet

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Socrative

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Socrative

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Socrative

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Socrative

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Screencastomatic

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Today’s Meet

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• Wkingbg@gmail.com

• william.king@bgreen.kyschools.us

• @wkingbg (Twitter, Instagram, Google +)

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