Assignment:
As an advocate for improving teaching in the 21st century, create a 12 to 15 slide digital presentation for an audience of district personnel. Your goal is to get them to support your ideas and to better understand your school's current climate.
You must include a title, reference slide, presenter notes, and 3-5 peer-reviewed scholarly sources.
In your presentation, address the following:
- A vision of technology infusion with two supporting strategies to promote the participation of others in shared decision-making and community building.
- Two strategies to develop the leadership and technology skills of others.
- Two school-wide strategies to more effectively use existing or emerging digital tools and resources to support student learning.
- Two possible obstacles that will impede improvement on teaching practices and technology infusion and ways to overcome these possible obstacles.
- Four practical and effective ways of encouraging change in teacher practices.
While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
Resources you can use: Read "Professional Development in Statistics, Technology, and Cognitively Demanding Tasks: Classroom
Implementation and Obstacles," by Foley, Khoshaim, Alsaeed, and Nihan, from International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science & Technology (2012).
Read "Experiential Professional Development: A Model for Meaningful and Long-Lasting Change in Classrooms," by Burke, from Journal of Experiential Education (2013).