Thursday, January 06, 2005

ISTE Institute

Near the end of January, four of us from Emmaus High School are going to the ISTE Institute, to be held in Orlando, FL for two days. I am very excited about going, even if we have to be in a sunny, warm climate for 4 days (give or take a few hours) grin . For the first time I think that we have the potential to get some really good things going in the area of technology and professional development. We are going in with some definate goals and some ideas about how we can reach them. Hopefully the Institute will crystallize all of this and make it more real.

Liz and I had a pretty good meeting with our Director of Research and Evaluation today. It was fun to throw around some ideas. More of this needs to be happening here! We will be taking our Technology Integration Plan, Logic Model and Rationale piece, as well as Professional Development materials we currently have in place (not much really). Our goal is to develop a plan to (1) increase the number of student-centered learning opportunities in the classroom; (2) look at alternative assessment and seek out examples; (3) increase collaboration among teachers; and (4) develop inter-disciplinary applications.

We hope to implement a plan with the teachers in the technology-enhanced rooms that gives us some data on effective ways of implementing professional development that will move us toward these goals. The logic model that we’ve developed is really good. I am so looking forward to working on this. We have a good team, and a great Principal who is making all this happen. Sometimes there are things to get excited about around here!

Posted by Randy on 01/06 at 04:08 PM
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