PD

=21st Century Professional Development – Aligning PD with Teaching= Beth Rajan Sockman & Kathy Post Shouldn’t professional development emulate the way that we want teachers to teach? Unfortunately, PD is usually the opposite – lecture! In this interactive session you will do professional development through the content areas; you will learn by doing. You will explore the meanings of differentiation by creating comics, wiki pages, and verbal stories, and most importantly, experience a new PD method. The session will be most productive if you have a laptop.

=**Session WIKI: http:// psu121.wikispaces.com**=


 * Things to think about!**
 * Collaborate with the curriculum needs of the district. Create Webquest, Moodles, Nings, Photostories, create movies, etc. around those issues.
 * Use the technology that you want teachers to integrate AND cover the curricular needs.
 * **Privacy issues:** Use a protected environment, allow teachers to usernames or be anonymous. Take polls.
 * Allow 2 hours to go deep.

Contact information: Beth Rajan Sockman - bsockman@po-box.esu.edu Sample work of other teachers: http://webquest-esu.wikispaces.com/TheWorld! (Please NOTE the goal was NOT a beautiful site. However, teachers did see the value of technology and a quest.)