Transcript Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works

Using Technology with Classroom
Instruction that Works
Session 1
Why Technology
• Integrating technology provides
– An opportunity to differentiate instruction
– Help for teachers to create a dynamic learning
environment
– A tool to increase student learning and understanding
– Motivation for student learning
– Encouragement for collaboration
– Support for the development of critical thinking and
problem-solving skills
Benefits all students but is especially effective with atrisk and special needs students.
Using Technology with Classroom
Instruction that Works
• The book discusses nine instructional strategies
that work and the ways in which technology can
support and integrate these strategies.
• Research shows these instructional strategies
causes great gains in student achievement.
Average gains of 34 percentile points.
• Pairing technology and effective instructional
strategies can move a classroom from good to
great!
Instructional Strategies that Affect
Student Achievement
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Identifying similarities and differences
Summarizing and note taking
Reinforcing effort and providing recognition
Homework and practice
Nonlinguistic representation
Cooperative learning
Setting objectives and providing feedback
Generating and testing hypotheses
Cues, questions, and advance organizers
Our PD Plan
• Read the book. (Principals, Assistant Principals,
Teacher Coachers, and Media Coordinators)
• At each LTM, instructional directors will share
with principals ideas to use an instructional
strategy with technology.
• At each school, principals will lead a PD session
about technology ideas for each instructional
strategy with help from assistant principals,
teacher coaches, and media coordinators.
• Each month teachers will select ideas to integrate
technology in the classroom.
• Model: 1 to 2
Goal
• It is not about the technology itself but
our goal is to use technology as a tool to
engage our students in learning
experiences that will be applicable to
their world and future.
• School goal
• Personal goal