Category: Leading

April 1, 2017 preidteacher@gmail.com No comments exist

Supportive iPad Professional Learning According to Gulamhussein (2013) to create an effective professional learning plan, it should include the follow features:1. Extend duration for allowing for learning new strategies and implementation2. Support for implementation stage to address specific challenges3. Active learning with varied approaches4. Model the skills to be learned for further understanding of new…

March 14, 2017 preidteacher@gmail.com No comments exist

Apple Teacher Professional Learning Plan   The great desire to use the tools that are provided by the district in an effective and useful manner.  When I was a teacher, I felt it was my duty to utilize the tools that a district provided for me to best of my abilities to encourage, engage, and…

March 11, 2017 preidteacher@gmail.com No comments exist

  Effective Professional Learning  Professional development, professional learning, teacher development, continuing professional education; it has a lot of names but is it effective? According to the Hechinger Report (2015), The Mirage (2015), and the Center for Public Education (Gulamhussein, 2013) it is not. Professional development (PD) is costly and timely but does not see a…

January 22, 2017 preidteacher@gmail.com No comments exist

The goal of my innovation plan is the effective use of iPads in the classroom, and to increase students outcomes with the use of iPads. Karen Hinnett writes the reflective process “helps students to understand what constitutes quality work and to develop evaluative skills.” (2002)  As such, I am creating a course on iTunesU to…

December 3, 2016 preidteacher@gmail.com No comments exist

Creating a significant learning environment is more than what content you teach, but how you set up the learning environment.  When creating a course of study the learning outcome must effortlessly coincide with activities and assessments that are done during the course.  Looking at the development of a course from multiple perspectives of foundational, application,…

November 20, 2016 preidteacher@gmail.com No comments exist

Creating Significant Learning EnvironmentTodd Nesloney, Dave Burgess and George Couros, 3 educators that are echoing the ideas found in A New Culture of Learning.  Support play and imagination, learn from a collective, and the learner is the one learning.  These three key components of A New Culture of Learning are seen in the way these…

November 16, 2016 preidteacher@gmail.com No comments exist

  Project Based Learning, Innovation Projects, 20% Time, Genius Hour are all based around an idea, provide a student an opportunity to express themselves in a pursuit that is passionate and relevant to them.  Giving students that ability to develop their own whys and hows will help them create a deeper understanding of the prescribed…

October 10, 2016 preidteacher@gmail.com 2 comments

Why iPads in the Classroom? As teachers, we strive for the best in our students. We want the best for them, at whatever cost that may take. We teach all kinds of students.  The advanced energetic learner, the resistant rebellious child, and the learning-challenged struggling student. All of these types are in our classroom at…

October 4, 2016 preidteacher@gmail.com No comments exist

“People don’t buy what you do, but why you do it” (2013).  Simon Sinek embeds this idea into his entire TED Talk Start with the why.  It is the Why? question that will lead to change not the What? question.  Simon continues to develop this idea when explains why people are driven to buy the…

September 20, 2016 preidteacher@gmail.com No comments exist

Elgin Independent School District implemented a 1:1 iPad Initiative at the beginning of the 2014-2015 school year.  Starting at Elgin Middle School,  the initiative began with a gradual deployment of student iPads, and, by the beginning of the 2015-2016 school year, stretched from grades six to twelve.  The goals of the initiative are to provide…