Creating a Professional Learning Community

Creating a Professional Learning Community

· Professionals: Those individuals who are responsible and accountable for delivering an effective instructional program to students so that they each learn well. Professionals show up with a passionate commitment to their own learning and that of students, and share the responsibility to this purpose.

· Learning: The activity in which professionals engage in order to enhance their knowledge and skills.

· Community: Individuals coming together in a group in order to interact in meaningful activities to learn deeply with colleagues about an identified topic, to develop shared meaning, and identify shared purposes related to the topic.

Monday, December 29, 2014

Making Lessons "POP" in SMART

I would like to explore ways to tap into the power of the SMARTBoard to help you create more interactive, engaging, and visually captivating lessons.  I have had many conversations with people (people who have used the SMARTBoard for years and people who are just starting out) regarding the use of the board and how to make lessons more interactive ... as afterall, that is the purpose of the SMARTBoard.  The SMARTBoard gives us the technology to help to motivate and engage students.  Initially, I want to focus on different ways to "reveal" content as you are teaching which leads to ways in which students explore what they are learning rather than reading the content or waiting for the next slide. This is not a means to be critical.  It is a means to push your technology use and a means to use the SMARTBoard more effectively and efficiently.  

 Please take some time to watch the attached video.  It is about 15 minutes long. I would like you to watch it before our faculty meetings the week we get back.  I would then encourage you to begin a dialogue through the comment options in this blog.  

 This blog will become a platform for us to have dialogue and share out some of our expertise and questions.

 If you have some thoughts, examples, questions related to this video and this topic, please feel free to post.  I encourage it, actually!


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