Professional Development Plan

PLAN	ACTION	ASSESSMENT
Smart Board Training for all faculty members	Offer teacher training and professional development hours for Smart Board training	Self-Assessments, surveys, and classroom implementation
Teacher technology, 9 hours required training	Offer teachers the training they need, not the training the district says. Give teachers a choice—include online training that meets the needs of individual teachers	Self-assessments, logs, certificates
Introduction to Blogging	Teachers may receive training for classroom blogging and how to use this tool with students.	Self-assessments, surveys, logs
Skyward	Offer additional training for the gradebook program for all new teachers and those current teachers who still have difficulty with the program and its uses.	Self-assessments, teacher use throughout the year
Technology conferences	Teachers/participants will attend technology-based seminars to discover the latest and greatest technologies available to districts. The district usually sends 3 or 4 teachers to this seminar.	Share with staff at staff meeting.
In addition, the SBDM committees for the high school should begin discussing the use of Smart Phones within the classroom. Is this something we want district policy to change? We should begin by conducting campus survey, researching schools in the surrounding areas who have changed their policies to include the use of Smart Phones in the classroom, and surveying stakeholders in the community. Do parents support this type of change? Do teachers support it? If they don’t, why?