Professional Development in September.

The following is an outline of what Sullivan Heights is beginning the school year with.  This is our first Professional Development day and we want to start out with a vengeance. It is day of sharing of our skills and ideas, then the talent in our school will help others to begin their journey of learning. According to Primal Leadership by Daniel Goleman, it is the "fundamental task of a leader to create resonance at work, thereby unleashing positive traits and attributes in the people at work. To use the strengths of what you have, to get the people working with you to inspire, motivate and foster commitment in the people around them."  A great sign of leadership is using the strengths of the people around you, their passion, and there are so many passionate people in the Surrey School District but none as much as the people in this school.

 So our plan is to share what we already are doing in our school and to help others in the school build their PLNs and start their journey of learning.  Please come with us as we start our learning planned for two years or more.  To your right are the different departments and what they are saying about their learning. Take care.  We begin in September and I for one am excited!!  
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Pro D Day – 21^st Century Education

Morning Session:

Time:                         9:00 – 10:00 am. – In Library

Presenter -                Nicole Painchaud & Jennifer Spain –

Presentation:            What is the 21^st Century Learner and Teacher

·      What is the 21^st Century Learner?

·      What skills should the 21^st Century Learner have?

·      How should the teacher of today teach the 21^st Century learner? ?

·      engage hands-on activities for teachers to see how they can incorporate the 21^st century skills.

·      Learning about Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy

Time:  10:30 – 12:00 – In library

Presenters:  See Below

Presentation:  Web 2.0 Tools in Relation to Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy

See some of the technology that can be used with Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy.  Presenters will demonstrate the tools with student exemplars and showcasing the benefits of the tool.  Each presentation will include an explanation of how this tool is used in the classroom, for learning and/or assessing.  Listeners will select two tools to explore in depth in the afternoon sessions.   Each presentation is 10 minutes long.

Ryan Neufeld:  Twitter and sharing with students

Robert Dewinetz:  Fakebook, Timer online, and more.

Roger Haywood – Learning 360, Discover Ed, and CBC News Online

Lisa Leonard and Jewell Thai – Glogster

            Jacqueline Alvarado Cruz – , ToonDoo

Jennifer Spain – Voice Thread, iTunes, Twitter Assignment and Storybird

Sarah Garr – Webnode.

Nicole Painchaud – Edublog and Wikis

Lunch:  From 12:00 – 1:00           

Time:                     Afternoon 1:00 – 1:30

Presentation:        Training session of Web 2.0 tools - Choose the tool you wish to learn from the morning presentations.  Handouts of instructions will be given in the sessions.

            B116 – Jennifer Spain – VoiceThread

            B111 – Nicole Painchaud – Make your own Wiki

            B123 – Ryan Neufeld  & Robert Dewinetz– Twitter

            B110 -   Jacqueline Alvarado Cruz  and Lisa Leonard- Glogster

            Library – Roger Hayward - Learn 360, and Google Searching

Time:                      1:45 – 2:15

Presentation:          Web 2.0 Tools Workshop

B116 – Jennifer Spain & Jacqueline Avarado Cruz – Webnode

            B111 – Nicole Painchaud – Make your own Edublog

            B110 – Ryan Neufeld – Twitter

            B123 -  Robert Dewinetz – Fakebook and more

Time:                2:15 – 3:00

Presentation:    Department Meeting to discuss what was learned or free computer time in room B111

People involved in the grant.

Our Leadership Grant group is on it's way with a list of people with research questions.  See below.  We're excited as well as anxious to begin.  Some of us are already on Twitter and plan to post observations of our findings in Twitter.  If interested we are creating a Sullivan Heights Twitter to follow, but most of us are going to tweet our finds as well individually.  Soon to come, in September, a list of Tweet names and web addresses of the participants in our voyage of learning and discovery.

Teacher	Department	Inquiry Question
Susan Rogerson	Career and Planning10	How do we make sure students have the knowledge and the ability to understand the permanence of the Internet highway and the awareness of how to interact in a responsible and safe manner while online?
Nicole Painchaud	Information Technology	How can E-Portfolios on Facebook show higher levels of thinking and learning? How can E-Portfolios on Facebook be used for authentic assessment?
Ryan Neufield	Phy Ed.	How can Twitter be used more effectively with students in our learning environment?
Jeff Vaughan		What if our only assessment goal was to have students own their education, what would happen?
Jennifer Spain	Languages	How do Web 2.0 tools affect the role of the teacher and engagement of the students in different areas of second language study?
Teachers taking part in the Barrie Bennett group	Various	How do graphic organizers change the manner of teaching by the teacher and learning by the student? To what extent does the use of the same graphic organizer in different curricular areas help the student achieve mastery of that learning tool?
Robert Dewinetz	Social Studies	How can Ipad Apps motivate and facilitate collaborative critical thinking?
Roger Hayward	Library and Law	In what ways can we give the google generation the tools to navigate and develop web skills for the Information highway?
Shelley Blackwell	Home Economics - tourism	To what extent does interview assessment engage students in self-directed learning?
Heidi Neilson	Social Studies/English	How does the use of feedback instead of grades affect student performance in Geography and English? To what extent does giving students the opportunity to revise work multiple times (with teacher feedback) help improve students’ overall writing skills? To what extent does encouraging students to use technology, such as word processing programs, Inspiration, or the internet for research improve their overall product?
Sue Fuller and various SEA’s in the department	BASES	How can using Web 2.0 tools and live feeds from various locations enrich the learning and capabilities of BASES students in their understanding of the world at large?
Bryan Bucci		Web 2.0 tools
Jacqueline Alvarado Cruz		Web 2.0 tools
Various teachers	Science	How can fully utilized document readers enhance the learning of students during science experiments?
Shelley Blackwell Karen Barry	Home Economics	Will Document Readers give higher comprehension of food and sewing demonstrations compared to using the demonstration mirror?
Bal Ranu, Nicole Painchaud Jen Spain Jeff Vaughan Robert Dewinetz Ryan Neufeld	Network of Performance Based Schools  (http://npbs.ca )	To what extent will student achievement improve when using feedback and performance assessment guidelines and tools instead of straight marks to assess and monitor the level of student comprehension of the learning outcomes in Math, English, Home Economics, Social Studies and Information Technology?
Heidi Nielsen Erin Pacheco Lori van Niekerk Nicole Painchaud Bal Ranu Bryan Bucci	Developing Readers	School Question:  How will the Developing Reader’s team small manageable steps and model them to staff to impact staff to buy in to literacy initiatives? Individual classroom question: How will sharing learning intentions and using descriptive feedback impact my students engagement in their learning?