Due to professional development at Cartersville Middle School being providing at times during the day that often do not correlate with the ELL teachers’ planning period, these teachers have missed training on how to use some of the basic technology the Cartersville School district provides. In addition, these teachers have not been provided time to work with the technology that has been placed in their classrooms to see how it can benefit them in their ELL classroom and how it can provide it can support language development with the ELL student. Therefore, there are two main goals for the five-day summer professional development for the ELL teachers. Goal 1 - Provide opportunities for the middle school ELL teachers to learn specific technologies
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• By the end of day one’s training, the middle school ELL teachers will be familiar with the features of the Gale/Cengage databases.
• By the end of the second day’s training, the middle school ELL teachers be introduced to several Quick Response programs like Kahoot and Plickers, create a user accounts, create quizzes, and enroll students into the class roster section.
• By the end of the third day’s training, the middle school ELL teachers will learn how to use the iPad camera to take photos and download them onto their laptop and into a Word Document to create a story sequence.
• By the end of the fourth day’s training, the middle school ELL teachers will be able to locate MakeBeliefsComix.com and create a comic strip.
• By the end of the fifth day’s training, the middle school ELL teachers will create infographics using Piktochart. Goal 2 - Provide opportunities for middle school ELL teachers to integrate technology into the ELL curriculum. In order for 100% of the ELL teachers to reach this goal the following SMART objectives have been …show more content…
• By the mid-point of the third day’s training, the middle school ELL teachers will learn how the elements and principals of visual literacy (Golombisky & Hagen, 2013).
• By the end of the third day of training, the middle school ELL teachers will create a lesson incorporating the use of creating story sequences into a unit of study.
• By the end of the fourth day of training, the middle school ELL teachers will create a lesson focusing on the element of casual conversation and incorporating the use of making comic strips into the lesson.
• By the end of the fifth day of training, the middle school ELL teachers will demonstrate ways in which to incorporate the use of infographics into their classroom and list the steps they as teachers would follow for the students to produce this type of media. Goal 3 – Provide opportunities for the middle school ELL teacher to have time for personal reflection, time to explore the information that is being taught independently, and time for large and small group
• By the end of day one’s training, the middle school ELL teachers will be familiar with the features of the Gale/Cengage databases.
• By the end of the second day’s training, the middle school ELL teachers be introduced to several Quick Response programs like Kahoot and Plickers, create a user accounts, create quizzes, and enroll students into the class roster section.
• By the end of the third day’s training, the middle school ELL teachers will learn how to use the iPad camera to take photos and download them onto their laptop and into a Word Document to create a story sequence.
• By the end of the fourth day’s training, the middle school ELL teachers will be able to locate MakeBeliefsComix.com and create a comic strip.
• By the end of the fifth day’s training, the middle school ELL teachers will create infographics using Piktochart. Goal 2 - Provide opportunities for middle school ELL teachers to integrate technology into the ELL curriculum. In order for 100% of the ELL teachers to reach this goal the following SMART objectives have been …show more content…
• By the mid-point of the third day’s training, the middle school ELL teachers will learn how the elements and principals of visual literacy (Golombisky & Hagen, 2013).
• By the end of the third day of training, the middle school ELL teachers will create a lesson incorporating the use of creating story sequences into a unit of study.
• By the end of the fourth day of training, the middle school ELL teachers will create a lesson focusing on the element of casual conversation and incorporating the use of making comic strips into the lesson.
• By the end of the fifth day of training, the middle school ELL teachers will demonstrate ways in which to incorporate the use of infographics into their classroom and list the steps they as teachers would follow for the students to produce this type of media. Goal 3 – Provide opportunities for the middle school ELL teacher to have time for personal reflection, time to explore the information that is being taught independently, and time for large and small group