Audience: Elementary English Language Arts Teachers
Workshop Length: 5 days right after school (One afternoon a week for five weeks.)
Course Description: This program is for primary elementary English Language Arts teachers. This PGCPS U course will be specifically targeted on how to use the technology devices and software that are provided. Teachers should take this course if they want to learn more about, not just how to use, the actual technology. The course will cover how to use technology to drive student reading comprehension achievement. No prior experience is needed. All teachers have been using the technology since the beginning of the year, so the course will provide a quick recap and then work on increasing student comprehension through the use of reading technology.
Course Objectives: The goal of this workshop is to get teachers using technology in their classrooms effectively. Teachers will get a better understanding of how to use data from technology and the technology they collect in their classroom in order to drive learning. Teachers many need to reteach a lesson or restructure reading ability learning groups. The data allows teachers to better understand how to help their students master the comprehension skills they do not yet understand. This five day workshop series will help teachers choose better technology for their students.
Course Materials: Please bring your county issued laptop fully charged.
Course Requirements: Teachers will collect student data in order to use technology to increase reading comprehension levels.
Course Evaluations: The five workshops will be evaluated every week using online exit tickets. The sessions will be tweaked based on the data from the exit tickets. The online exit tickets will be plus and deltas on a Google Document so everyone can view the feedback. It is essential to understand the participants’ perspective on the entire workshop from content, venue to technology used.
Course Schedule: The first session will be an overview of what we have available to us and our students. This session will begin with how a teacher can use the technology in the classroom to deliver instruction. There will be examples from literacy in primary grade levels. There will be an overview of technology in each classroom and the computer programs. During this session teachers will be able to try out the programs and think about what would work best for their students.
The second session will focus on how to read the data from the specific programs students use each day. Teachers will have an opportunity to study their student’s data while taking notes.
The third session will focus on next steps. Teachers will come to this session with classroom data. Teachers will create a plan for how to re-teach a comprehension skill. Teachers will decide how to re-teach and how the students should use the computer program. Teachers will figure out how to informal assess.
The fourth session will be a chance for teachers to evaluate how their plans have been going and make edits. This workshop will look at what has been working.
The fifth session will be a review of how the plans have been working and what other support may be needed.
Audience:
Elementary English Language Arts Teachers
Workshop Length:
5 days right after school (One afternoon a week for five weeks.)
Course Description:
This program is for primary elementary English Language Arts teachers. This PGCPS U course will be specifically targeted on how to use the technology devices and software that are provided. Teachers should take this course if they want to learn more about, not just how to use, the actual technology. The course will cover how to use technology to drive student reading comprehension achievement. No prior experience is needed. All teachers have been using the technology since the beginning of the year, so the course will provide a quick recap and then work on increasing student comprehension through the use of reading technology.
Course Objectives:
The goal of this workshop is to get teachers using technology in their classrooms effectively. Teachers will get a better understanding of how to use data from technology and the technology they collect in their classroom in order to drive learning. Teachers many need to reteach a lesson or restructure reading ability learning groups. The data allows teachers to better understand how to help their students master the comprehension skills they do not yet understand. This five day workshop series will help teachers choose better technology for their students.
Course Materials:
Please bring your county issued laptop fully charged.
Course Requirements:
Teachers will collect student data in order to use technology to increase reading comprehension levels.
Course Evaluations:
The five workshops will be evaluated every week using online exit tickets. The sessions will be tweaked based on the data from the exit tickets. The online exit tickets will be plus and deltas on a Google Document so everyone can view the feedback.
It is essential to understand the participants’ perspective on the entire workshop from content, venue to technology used.
Course Schedule:
The first session will be an overview of what we have available to us and our students. This session will begin with how a teacher can use the technology in the classroom to deliver instruction. There will be examples from literacy in primary grade levels. There will be an overview of technology in each classroom and the computer programs. During this session teachers will be able to try out the programs and think about what would work best for their students.
The second session will focus on how to read the data from the specific programs students use each day. Teachers will have an opportunity to study their student’s data while taking notes.
The third session will focus on next steps. Teachers will come to this session with classroom data. Teachers will create a plan for how to re-teach a comprehension skill. Teachers will decide how to re-teach and how the students should use the computer program. Teachers will figure out how to informal assess.
The fourth session will be a chance for teachers to evaluate how their plans have been going and make edits. This workshop will look at what has been working.
The fifth session will be a review of how the plans have been working and what other support may be needed.