This past February Cindy Crannell and I presented at the Illinois Computing Educators Conference (ICE) at the lovely Renaissance Convention Center in Schaumburg, IL. We gave an overview of different types of Professional Development that our district and tech team have offered to teachers recently.
We described the self-paced Apple Teacher's badging afternoon. We also shared feedback about our Edcamp style session, which gave teachers a choice about topics they wished to discuss with each other. And we included information about our D90 tech cohort. With an eye to an even deeper form of PD, our administration has created a wonderful partnership with a local university, Dominican, and we have had three cohorts of teachers so far take an ed tech class together.
During our presentation when we mentioned mindset, and how encouraging teachers to be aware of their mindset right before a PD session proved to be especially conducive to learning, we felt our audience lean in--they were really listening! Here is a sketch note overview from Instructional Coach Jenny Lehotsy who illustrated the significance of growth mindset so well:
Our room was filled with teachers, ed tech coaches, administrators--all very supportive, friendly, and what a treat to have so many people share what they were doing in their schools as well. One teacher/coach, Arpan Chokshi, even mentioned us in his blog post the next week entitled Top 10 Takeaways from ICE 2018---what a thrill and an honor!
I've been meaning to post our presentation here for a while, so without further ado, here it is.
Do you have any favorite PD sessions that you would like to share? Please feel free to write about them in the comments below! Or tweet them out to @AClasky.
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