We are a vibrant community of learners and leaders!
Our ongoing professional development is a priority because it has a positive impact on student learning. We use our individual development plans (IDPs) as tools to reflect on our practices, develop our skills, achieve our goals, and further our school mission.
At our planning meeting in September, our Site Council agreed to focus on technology-integrated instruction and student persistence as 2008-09 school goals and adopted our Individual Development Plan, 2008-09.
To see Martha’s Individual Development Plan for 2008-09, please click here.
By October 9, 2008 please do the following:
- Submit your completed IDP to Martha
- Add your new technology goals for 2008-09 to this blog post in the comment box.
Thank you, diligent Learners and Leaders! May you find rich insight and renewed passion in this time of goal setting and self-reflection.
Hi All:
I hope everyone will take advantage of this very convenient tool to get your IDP’s in on schedule.
Thanks
I commit to the following new goals for 2008-09:
• Assist with site-based trainings on technology-integrated instruction
• Provide an “open computer lab” for all students in my classroom in the afternoons
• Help create a marketing video about our Distance Learning program
• Get evening staff more comfortable with technology use and application
• Be available as needed to assist or train any teachers or students who may need help
• Learn more about troubleshooting the Smartboard
• Share planning ideas, teaching strategies, and collaborate with other teachers regularly through email, blog, or other technological forums.
I am committed to these educational goals for 2008-2009:
1. I will personally contact students who stop attending regularly to invite them back to class.
2. I will try to pace the activities of every class according to the interest level of the students.
3. I will use different teaching strategies to try to reach all the students with their various learning preferences: visual, auditory or kinesthetic.
4. I will try to fully utilize the wonderful technology available to us in the classroom.
5. I will attend all staff development activities to increase my knowledge of technology and teaching techniques.
6. I will try to inject tremendous enthusiasm into every class to inspire the students to get engaged in the lesson objective.
7. I will put more emphasis on the application phase of the lesson objective to be sure that the student learning outcome has been achieved.
I commit to the following new goals for 2008-2009:
1. Increase my own proficiency with the SMARTBoard and the Internet. I will create one or more power point slide shows to review a unit from All Star 2.
2. Teach computer skills to the students. I plan to teach the students to touch the screen and /or drag and drop words with their hands while using the All Star interactive CD Rom. I will also train them (by my demonstration in class) to use the internet and respond to the quizzes as we work on line which will be projected on the SMARTBoard. The students will then have opportunities to interact with the SMARTBoard. Each student will have an opportunity to use the wireless mouse and the wireless keyboard during class activities using the internet searches and quizzes.
I will try some new strategies for retention:
1. New techniques for student to student bonding and interaction with conversation groups and interviews.
2. Create new group activities.
3. Attempt filming student presentations
I will regularly check out Martha’s Blog for more teaching tips, and respond with my own ideas from time to time.
I will try the web sites that are suggested by other teachers in their e-mails.
I committ to the following new goals for 2008-2009:
1- learn how to podcast and its uses in the classroom
2- assist the High School Diploma staff in computerizing procedures such as calendar/appointment/grading and attendance
3- As a member of the Professional Growth Tech Team participate in the writing of the new Technology Plan
4- continue to encourage and mentor teacher and students in the use of email for student persistence and as a method of submitting assignments
5- participate and oversee the new Office Assistant Program that began September 2008
1. I would like to set up email addresses for most of my students at Belmont Village.
2. I hope to have a better response to my Internet Cafe at Belmont Village.
3. Have my students research their presidential candidate on the computer.
4. Investigate online sites for wonderful teaching ideas ( for example) activity connection.com.
5. I want to take more computer- based classes for teachers.
6. Create a video for Older Adults learning.
7. I would like Newport Sub-Acute to get internet connected.
Thank you – Mandi, Lora, and Carole – for submitting your Individual Development Plan and posting your new tech goals for the 2008-09 school year! Way to go!!
Thank you – Ines, Steve, and Elizabeth – for submitting your IDPs. Don’t forget to post your new tech goals by October 9th!
Thank you – Nancy and Ilene – for posting your new tech goals on the blog. Don’t forget to complete and submit your IDP. Click on the Individual Development Plan, 2008-09 hyperlink in this blog post to get the template.
Martha
Begin formatting an automated grade book for High School Diploma courses and begin developing High School Diploma courses online.
I commit to the following new goals for 2008-2009:
– I will learn more about the use of the Smartboard.
– I will read the “Blog” for new ideas, and suggestions in how to implement new teaching strategies in the classroom.
– I will take more on-site (PowerPoint II?) and off-site (CATESOL, etc) training classes.
– I will like to learn how to podcast and its uses in the classroom.
1. I will trouble shoot the problems with my Smart Board so that documents I create at home and send to my email at school will show up correctly on the Smart Board.
2. I will teach word processing to my students so they can publish their written class work.
3. I will share effective teaching strategies and successful lessons with staff through email.
* Allow more time for quality teacher-student interaction by utilizing computerized record keeping technology to keep track of student appointments, grades, and textbooks.
* Investigate computer programs that will assist and facilitate student learning.
* Integrate more computer-aided instruction into course syllabi.
* Include student PowerPoint presentations in sylabi as applicable to incorporate project-based learning into coursework.
Technology: I will try to take students to the computer lab at least twice a semester.
I will encourage use of the keyboard by passing it around during class for student participation.
I will look for new web sites for use on the Smart Board.
• I will attend all professional growth activities on technology that are given at the BESST Center.
• I will seek out new sites on the internet and learn how to apply them in the classroom.
• I will contact other teachers to see what they are doing to increase their knowledge.
• I will visit the “blog” to keep myself informed of the latest research done my Martha and new methodology to implement in the classroom.
This goals I commit to for this year are as follows:
•My goal is to use the Smart Board nightly for a variety of lessons to engage students
•My goal is to have 75% – 80% of my students feeling comfortable in using a computer keyboard
•My goal is to have 75% – 80% of my students knowledgeable in a minimal level of computer literacy
•I will teach my students to use Microsoft Word
•I will use the interactive All Star 4 CD and other interactive websites to encourage student involvement
•I will have students use the wireless keyboard to participate in learning activities on the Smart Board
•I will take students to the computer lab at least twice per semester
I commit to the following new goals for 2008-09:
Provide one Tech Tip dealing with acquiring video (podcast) to promote student learning.
Find downloadable video (podcast) that help students learn ESL.
Convert video to formats that can be played on most DVD players that are owned by students.
Use pronunciation DVD as prize to stress persistence.
a. I will use interactive computer program to help the students increase their ability to listen and understand.
b. I will continue using the Smart Board along with All-Star program to increase the student’s participation in class.
c. I will teach and encourage the students to use the internet program, m-w.com, to improve their pronunciation.
d. I will use programs such as Power Point with the Smart Board to give the students better understanding of the lesson.
e. I will check and read the Blog to obtain new ideas and suggestions to implement new strategies in the class.
I will commit to the following educational goals for 2008-2009:
1. Utilize the smart Board for more interactive activities.
2. Peer mentors: Sign up to observe a lesson on technology
3. Attend on-site trainings that are offered
4. Read suggestions and communications that are posted on “Adult Education Matters” created by Martha Rankin
5. Complete a Masters of Study in TESOL Program “Teaching English as a Second Language to Students of Other Languages”. Woven throughout the courses are ideas that utilize technology to facilitate language acquisition. I hope to complete this course of study by the end of Summer 2009.
I commit to the following new goals for 2008-2009:
1. I will use the interactive CD for AllStar 3 when it becomes available.
2. I will expand my use of the Smart Board for interactive activities.
3. I will use the wireless keyboard to familiarize the students with Microsoft Word and the internet.
4. I will update my technical expertise via our blog, CALPRO courses, and CATESOL conferences.
Among other things, I need a larger understanding of blogs and blogging to make our class blog more useful and helpful to the students. I therefore commit to the following:
• I commit to improving the LETT class blog by learning more about and using widgets, tags and catagories to make the sidebar a supplemental resource for the class.
• I specifically commit to a current plan of having four separate (widgets, tags, or catagories – not yet sure which is the correct term for what I want to do). They are to be for idioms, phrasal verbs, CASAS vocabulary, and pronouns (and possibly a verb tense summary) that we have studied. Also intend to add class pictures to the blog as a sidebar choice.
• I commit to learning more about podcasting with hopes of adding that to the technology available in the LETT class.
• This one is not new but it is most important and hugely helpful. I commit to continued efforts at collaboration with my colleagues, both learning from and offering help to others to the extent I’m able.
• The Smart Board still has hidden mysteries I want to unravel. I commit to continuing a quest to further extend my use of its potential.
• I commit to pretty much staying out of trouble during the next two semesters as keeping all of these committments could conceivably consume most of my waking hours not to mention possible bleed-over into sleep time in the form of occasional nightmares.
In my Citizenship classes, I will use technology to promote student learning as follows:
A) I would like to expand my use of the Smartboard, to enhance and increase student learning and participation in class. I already use the Smartboard instead of a VCR in order to show – and to annotate – our excellent movie about what to expect, and how to prepare for, the USCIS (US Citizenship and Immigration Service –formerly the INS) interview and examination. I intend to use other movies, and other audio-visual programs from DVDs and various other sources, such as from the internet. Also, I will try to make more Powerpoint presentations such as my own devised Powerpoint presentation overview of my analytical study guide form which covers virtually all the questions required to be covered for the USCIS interview.
B) I would like to make still further, expanded use of email. I already am a regular subscriber to various and numerous bulletins and other notices of the USCIS. This permits me to be much more current with respect to new announcements from the Government which may have major impact upon my students and their goals of becoming citizens of the USA.
C) In order to expand my use of technology to promote student learning, I would like to attend some of the numerous and various technology training programs available to me through:
– local, internal staff development sessions (such as those mentored by Mandi, and/or others among our talented co-workers);
– local, external staff development sessions (with guest mentors from outside of our own staff, as we have had on numerous occasions in the past);
– internet programs (such as a number of those referenced by Martha’s blog, e.g., the Distance Learning Project, etc.); and
– various off-site programs that we are made aware of and assisted in attending by having fees paid, etc..
I commit to the following new goals for 2008-09:
Provide at least 6 site-based trainings on technology-integrated instruction
Write our new Technology Plan with our Professional Growth/Tech Team
Create a marketing video on our Distance Learning program
Learn about podcasting
Upload some NMUSD Adult School podcasts to our blog
Improve my videography skills
Send out a biweekly blog update Martha’s Keeping You Posted
Get 100% of our staff to check (and reply as needed) to email on a weekly basis (minimum standard)
Investigate automated and online options for our High School Diploma lab
Thanks, everyone, for sharing your goals for technology-integrated instruction here on our e-PLC.
Sharing our goals here allows us to 1) team up with folks with common interests and projects, 2) learn a little more about each other, 3) gain inspiration and new ideas! 4) reflect on how much progress we as a team have made!! 5) see all the possibilities…what more there is to DO and LEARN!!
We are a vibrant community of learners and leaders! We’re all learning…and leading…and learning…and leading…and learning again. Thank you, everyone, for your willingness to share and learn together.
NMUSD Professional Learning Community ~ We share to impart, impact, improve, and empower!
I will attend the CATESOL conference.
I will meet with other teachers on a regular basis to discuss strategies to increase student learning.
I will continue to take an education class.
I will participate in committees that promote professional growth development.
I will:
1.Integrate video production and sharing in curriculum. (I bought a fabulous Flip camera to help make this easy)
2.Utilize the Adult Ed Matters Blog to review and share proven strategies for technology use in the classroom.
3.Establish email accounts that promote student- teacher and student-student communication for classroom community building and English language development.
4.Pursue the completion of TESOL certificate.
5.Mentor peers in use of technology and assist with troubleshooting as needed.
6.Attend two at least two off- site professional growth workshops, seminars, or trainings related to technology implementation, in education throughout this year. (CALPRO, CATESOL, OCDE or NMUSD)
1. I will continue to expand the use of technology in the classroom.
2. I will create a video program with our students, sharing with the students when completed.
Last year I was unable to do anything about learning to use the computer and smatboard in class because of my physical therapy after my second surgery. For that reason I still want to learn to use a flash drive to put my personal grammar exercises on the smartboard for the students to work with.
I have committed to using the Smart Board at least once each week. As technologically ‘wimpy’ as that may sound, this is a real challenge for me, as it is still a very new skill in my repertoire. I am improving my confidence, and thinking of reasons to use this often, quite baffling tool.
I would like to achieve a comfort level such that I could allow my students to interact with the Board on an ongoing basis as well, as I realize that it can add a lot to the lesson, and to the level of excitement for them. So far, any attempts to perform this feat has resulted in more comedy than learning.
Another technological mastery in my future would be successful usage of excel. I can see a lot of benefits to having this skill: grids for students to track their progress, being one of them.
Tony Magana
I commit to do the following as part of my goals to enhance the learning experience of my students for 2008-09 school year.
•Attend at least 4 site-based trainings on the integration of technology in the classroom.
•Keep up to date and provide feedback to our Technology Plan to help our program be more successful.
•Check my school email for information.
•Keep up to date with our program blog.
•Check the district’s website and all the programs, workshops, and trainings for educators.
•Collaborate with our team of teachers in order to enhance the learning experience of our students.
1. I am addicted to my Smart Board. I never miss using and relying on it in every teaching session I conduct. But I would like to learn more about it. Specifically, I would like to learn how to effectively use the writing aspect of the Board, where I write something on the Board and change the fonts, move it around, enlarge it, etc.
2. I will continue to try to call every student by name in every one of my teaching sessions, and call them by name as I pass out a Funny Money Coupon (Thanks, Lora, for introducing me to the concept) to each one of them as they exit my classroom for staying to the end of the class.
3. I will call each one of my students who have stopped attending and invite them to return to class.
4. I will employ dictation in each and every one of my teaching sessions.
5. I will return to my website, develop it further, and get it enhanced with more links and information.
6. I will take more seminars from OTAN (Outreach and Technical Assistance Network.)
Alida ~ You got a flip camera? I’m so jealous!
In addition to using CD-ROMs to assign independent work activities, I will also use an online storage site for students to download class and independent work activities.
I will implement to use of journals with the ESL Computer Class. Through these journals I will offer the students feed back on daily and personal objectives.
I need to finish compiling my notes and adapted notes to create a class book.
I have waited so long to get my own video camera because I wasn’t quite up to the cd’s or tapes, cables etc.. The
Flip is great because of the usb format and how easy it is to create a video with the software included. It’s also easy to use with the Movie Maker in Microsoft. I made some pretty cool videos of my kids over the summer. The only problem is that I can’t use it on my classroom computer because I can’t install the software. I’ll have to put in a work request to tech dept. and see if they can authorize for me before I can fully appreciate its use in my classsroom. One drawback is that it doesn’t have flash for night recording. I’m assuming that the next version will probably be better but for the price it is a pretty user friendly and fun camera. It works just like a camera phone with just a touch of a button you can record up to sixty minutes of video. Then, plug into USB to download edit, save and share. It also recharges while its plugged into the computer. Wow! I’ll stop now I should probably get paid for this….
I commit to the following goals for 2008-2009
Assist in the transition here in the Tech Lab to using computers on a wider basis.
Attend at least two district Tech classes for professional growth.
Learn how to use some of the podcasting equipment recently purchased.
To see if I can join the newly formed “Pro-Growth Tech Team.”
I shall try to refine my powerpoint skills.
I shall continue to try to meet students’ needs, shall validate their efforts with positive reinforcement
I hope to take a course in Excel so that I can improve my record keeping.
Here are my tech goals for 2008-09:
1. Have students actively participate using technology even in my limited tech access situation (CMHS has access to a remote computer lab, but no in classroom hands on tech tools, no Smartboards). By coordinating cooperative group projects using digital still and video camcorder(s), create ESL language listening and speaking productions created by the students. Less focus on use of teacher delivered instruction with tech tools used in one-to-many teaching..
2. Present more audio podcasts to students for “real life” listening situations. Have students start to learn to use digital audio/video podcasts tools for effective use as language learning supplements. EX: How to acquire and use MP3 players/iPods for language listening practice.
3. More PLC driven professional development participation. I would like to share the knowledge and effective use of digital audio/video tools I’m currently using. I would like to participate or present in at least 2-3 “tech tip” sessions.
4. Help promote online and face-to-face teacher tech. training and NMUSD Marketing with creation and publishing of podcasts, video/DVD, how to videos, etc.
5. To effectively manage time towards completion of these goals as a part time Adult Ed educator and still maintain focus on full time teaching without stressing out too much!