Subversive PD: Creating a culture of collaboration to bring educators into the 21st Century
- When:
- Session One: Saturday 10:00am–11:30am
- Where:
- Room 309
- Who:
- Danja Mahoney, Michael Springer, Beth Knittle
- Affiliation: Reading Public Schools, Barnstable Public Schools
- Conversational Focus/Audience:
- All School Levels
- Conversation Description:
Why are there still so many educators sitting in the back of the faculty meeting rolling their eyes whenever 21st Century Skills are on the agenda? How can Professional Development be meaningful, effective and important for the uninterested. This will be a conversation about getting ALL educators to learn the necessary skills and to integrate technology into their classrooms and teaching. How can we help our colleagues see 21st century skills as valuable for themselves, and ultimately vital for their students' learning? What strategies work to bring the most resistant teachers on board? Let's talk about the subtle and not so subtle strategies educators can use to bring teachers out of their (isolated) comfort zones and into collaborative learning/teaching environments of the present and future. We will facilitate a conversation using the success analysis protocol to develop a list of best practices for Professional Development that are meaningful, effective, and will bring on board even the most reluctant educators.
- Conversational Practice:
- Success analysis protocol. We will use a wiki to start the process. As the small groups meet they each take notes on the group wiki page. After the session the full group discussion and group notes will lead to the development of a mind map (such as MindMeister). Once done we will share notes and links on the wiki and conversation page for continued access after the session. Please see the session wiki for conversation notes.
- Website:
- http://subversivepd.wikispaces.com/
- http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0Aei1bUSGUu_lZGN6dGI0aGRfMTAzYzlxOWdtY2o&hl=en&safe=on
- Elluminate Rooms ( instructions for launching Elluminate )
- Stream via Elluminate: Room 309 — Channel A