Since Michelle and I both work in the middle schools in our district, we have decided to have our own shared vision and focus on the same topics as we co-plan and meet with teachers throughout the week. We set aside time in our Friday chats to talk about the upcoming week and decide what topics/technologies that we are going to focus on in our meetings and discussions with teachers. This way we can bring our two buildings along together in the process and each teacher is receiving equitable training and information.
Our focus this coming week is going to be on collaboration and making sure that the teachers are aware of and utilizing the resource folder that we have created in Google Drive and are continuing to update with new information. We have created a folder in Google Drive called Student Collaboration and we have been asking our teachers to share how they are utilizing technology to allow students to collaborate. We have been assembling their responses into the folder so they can see the tools used to collaborate and how it was integrated into the curriculum.
Next Friday is our second institute day and we are also getting ready to have teachers share their knowledge and expertise with each other in some creative PD ways. We will share more about this in our next blog post.