speak about classroom experience, an understanding of adult learners and
people skills have essential ingredients to success too.
Coaching/mentoring is one very important piece of making it work since
it can embed (at least part of) the process into the act of instructing,
what we hope teachers will ultimately do with technology in the course
of their teaching.=20
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In my 25 years of experience, the degree to which instructional leaders
and administrators understand and value technology integration is also
predictor of success. They may help teacher create a personal goal for
technology integration and support their achievement of that goal.
(These goals can also guide some of the PD priorities.) Administrators,
who hold teachers accountable for using technology, value its
implementation in the course of their evaluation process. (This could be
a simple as recognizing student products and processes they have
observed incidentally.) A public school colleague of mine, Kim
McMonagle, has developed an outstanding program for the Douglas County,
CO school district. It is a model that can easily be adapted to a
smaller independent school.
http://schools.dcsdk12.org/education/school/school.php?sectiondetailid=3D=
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8969&sc_id=3D1165984817&PHPSESSID=3Da8029fe489d7555ced7d69889e21f55a
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Thanks for the stimulating posts....
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Karen M. Ortiz
Technology Integration Coach TIE Colorado Conference
Graland Country Day School Publications Chair
303.336.3771 Wireless Dreams
kortiz@graland.org June 24 - 28, 2008
Copper Mountain, Colorado 80443
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[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Kris Schulte
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 10:29 AM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: Professional Development Related to Information Technology
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There have been several keys for us (after several years of it not
working with a different structure)
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1. The person needs to have a flexible schedule. This was hard to
maintain, as people kept wanting our tech integrator to do more since he
was so capable. He only taught one class all year, plus a few more one
trimester. Other than that he was free to work with teachers. I can't
emphasize how important this was.
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2. He worked to develop relationships with the teachers so they trusted
him.
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3. Teachers presented what they were doing in division meetings to build
enthusiasm. The tech integrator orchestrated this. This was really
important.
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4. We only give advanced tech equipment to teachers who apply for it--
thus the more they want to do and are committed to learning, the more
good stuff they get. We were hoping for a ripple effect, and it really
has worked.
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5. In the lower school the tech integrators required each teacher to see
her once every two weeks or so. We did not go this route in the middle
and upper schools. We debated doing this in those divisions as well...=20
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6. we offered a special tech camp for one week during the summer. This
week we are building in time for teachers to write a lesson plan using
the technology-- done at the "camp" where there is tech help and
hand-holding..
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Kris Schulte
Dean of Faculty
Stuart Country Day School
1200 Stuart Road, Princeton, NJ 08540
609-921-2330
fax 609-497-0784
kschulte@stuartschool.org
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