10.+Professional+Development


 * __Professional Development Plan__

1. When is it provided and what are it's goals?** Professional development will be provided during planning periods throughout the day on the last Friday of each month. These will consist of small groups of teachers working in multidiscipline teams to learn how to utlize their laptops efficiently. In addition to learning how to use the laptops the following web applications will be discussed in order to show teachers new and innovative ways to integrate technology into their classrooms:

//September: Animoto October: Webquest November: Wikispaces December: Jing January: Google Docs February: RSS Feeds March: MovieMaker XP April: Glogster May: Voicethread and podcasts//

In addition to the monthly meetings one whole school professional development session will be held during the first in-service day of the year. This will consist of a three hour training on the features of the laptop and strategies for implementing technology into the classroom.

The technology professional development will be delivered by the technology team at the high school. This will consist of our technology specialist, the initiative team, and the administrators. This will be an opportunity for the technology specialists to address any common concerns snd for the staff to ask any questions they might have.
 * 2. Who delivers it?**

The professional development will be held at the high school in the LGI (large group instruction room) as well as the library. For the inservice days the LGI is logistically the best place to hold in-service, while smaller meetings can be held in the library for collaborative projects and planning period sessions.
 * 3. Where will it be provided?**