sharing with our colleagues
As educators piloting a technology classroom, we accept the responsibility and privilege of sharing our successes, failures, and knowledge with everyone in the PLC at Greenway Park Elementary School.
Teacher Trainings - Topics could include:
In our opinion, it is essential that we provide teachers with the ability to plan their own lessons using the iPads, one App at a time.
Teacher Trainings - Topics could include:
- Creating and using Gaggle assignments
- Discovery Education assignments
- Reading and writing Apps
- Using EduCreations in EVERY subject
- Using the iPad for Word Work
- Using the iPad for Math Fact Practice
- RazKids in the literacy classroom ($)
- Using iPads for higher level thinking skills
- Sharing math strategies using the iPad
- Showing "How You Know" the answer to that math question
- Science Inquiry with iPads
In our opinion, it is essential that we provide teachers with the ability to plan their own lessons using the iPads, one App at a time.
Keep Up With Our Classrooms
In an effort to keep our classrooms as open and accessible as possible to all the teachers at Greenway Park Elementary School, we would publish a weekly blog chronicling our journey implementing the iPads in our classrooms. We would share lessons that went well, our failures and how we would troubleshoot them or avoid them in the future, as well as fantastic student work showing growth and high achievement through the use of the iPads in the classroom.
Professional Learning
Because of our passion to integrate technology into our classroom, it is imperative that we continuously assess our effectiveness using the iPads in our instruction. It is also very important to us that we continue to learn and grow in our knowledge of how to use the technology in the most effective way possible. Attending professional development, both in person and online, would be one of many avenues available to us. We would also collaborate via twitter, gaggle, and edmoto with other teachers who are implementing one-to-one iPad classrooms for troubleshooting, ideas and resources.