Syllabus

toc =**Course Syllabus **=

**Audience **
This workshop is intended for all teachers in Montgomery County Public Schools.

**Course Description **
This workshop is created for a total of eight days with four hours of training each day. By the end of the eight day training teachers will leave knowing how to effectively use resources such as ActivInspire, Microsoft Office and Web 2.0 tools in conjunction with the Promethean boards they have in their classrooms. The goal is to increase the amount of hands-on and collaborative activities that are being taught in MCPS classrooms in conjunction with the 21st Century Classroom Expansion initiative started in 2008. The training will be repeated, and teachers with similar curriculum or grade level backgrounds will register for the course together. This way they will be able to collaborate with peers who are in similar classroom situations.

**Prerequisites **
While there will be a short review of each of the following, workshop participants should have a basic understanding of the following:
 * Promethean Boards
 * Microsoft Office
 * ActivInspire
 * The 2011 Elementary Integrated Curriculum or Middle and High School equivalents in order to create lessons that align with district standards.

**Materials Needed **
The following materials will be needed for the workshop:
 * Curriculum outline for your grade level/subject area.
 * Access to myMCPS (utilizing your MCPS login information).
 * Access to the Internet (Wi-Fi will be available).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">A MCPS-formatted flash drive (see the technology coordinator for your school)

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18px;">Workshop Goals and Objectives **
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">By the end of the workshop participants will be able to:
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Create lessons and activities using ActivInspire software.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Share lessons and activities they have created with colleagues.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Offer insight into improvements that can be made to the lessons and activities created by colleagues.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Locate and utilize pre-made ActivInspire lessons from myMCPS.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Develop a rubric to assess the ActivInspire lessons.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Utilize Microsoft Office products to create lessons and activities for the Promethean board.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Create Promethean Board assignments for students requiring student use of familiar Microsoft Office products.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Share their creativity with colleagues.
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Create a week of lessons to be used in their classroom.
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Practice teaching their lessons to their colleagues to increase their comfort with teaching using the technology.
 * 11) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Access, analyze and use Web 2.0 software provided through MCPS.
 * 12) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Create lessons using Web 2.0 activities that increase student collaboration and critical thinking.
 * 13) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Access, analyze and use Web 2.0 from outside of MCPS.

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Day 1: ActivInspire Basic Review and Promethean Board Review **

 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Welcome – Activator using ActivInspire, response systems, and Promethean Board that takes a survey of attendee’s comfort and capability with each.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Teachers (seated in pairs at computers in a lab) will watch as instructor models each aspect of the software that they are expected to use. They will then practice each step in sequence. Handouts will be provided as a reference.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Break-out groups will work at creating their own activities based on what they have learned and the MCPS curriculum.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Break-out groups will share the lessons and activities they have created with the large group.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Evaluation

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Day 2: Using ActivInspire Through myMCPS **

 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Activator – Create a list of what makes for a good lesson (both lessons requiring technology as well as those that do not).
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Using the list, develop a rubric that will be used for the remainder of the day to assess lessons that will be found and taught.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Using segmented handout as a reference, as well as instructor modeling, have teachers search for lessons related to their curriculum.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Allow teachers to meet in grade level or curriculum teams, find lessons and discuss.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Have teachers share 1 lesson per team with colleagues.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Have whole group discuss lessons in relation to the rubric created in steps 1 and 2.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Evaluation

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Day 3: Using Microsoft Office with Promethean Boards **

 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Activator – PowerPoint Jeopardy about Microsoft Office, Promethean Boards, and ActivInspire.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Discussion of ways that Microsoft Office products are typically used in the classroom, regardless of availability of Promethean Board/ActivInspire.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Instructor modeling of use of Microsoft Office on the Promethean Board.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Have teachers develop a PowerPoint/Excel Spreadsheet/or Word document to be used in conjunction with a previously developed ActivInspire lesson or a new lesson.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Have teachers share these within their grade level or curriculum teams.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Have teams create one activity using Microsoft Office products that requires students to use the program to complete an assignment.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Have teams share with large-group.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Evaluation

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Day 4: Using What You’ve Learned So Far **

 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Activator – Review answers to questions from exit cards from Days 1-3.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Break out into grade level and curriculum teams to create a week of lessons.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Instructor circulates and responds to questions that come up as work is being done.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Break-out groups teach lessons to another break-out group and choose the one they feel best exemplifies the learning they have done over the past 3 days of training.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Groups share their lessons with the large group.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Evaluation

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Day 5: Web 2.0 and Promethean Boards **

 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Activator – Web 2.0 Activator requiring teachers to guess which subject area each listed Web 2.0 program goes along with.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Instructor will demonstrate how to access the long list of Web 2.0 programs available through MCPS.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Teachers will spend time exploring the Web 2.0 list with a partner or individually and will create a list of 4 or 5 options that can be used to enhance previous lessons, or that they can envision using in their classroom.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Teachers will then integrate the examples into lessons.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">They will then share these lessons with colleagues.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The group will offer insights and critiques to their colleagues.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Evaluation

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Day 6: Web 2.0 and Promethean Boards Continued **

 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Activator –Voki asking attendees to think of ways that they might use a talking character in their own classroom.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Teachers explore a list of provided sources and choose one online lesson that is appropriate for use in their classroom.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Teachers will then make a recording using Voki explaining their lesson choice.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">After exploring grockit.com, teachers will utilize that to make a lesson from a youtube video.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Teachers will read about how Google Apps for Education is being used in classrooms and contemplate ways that it could be used in their own classes.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Teachers will create a prezi to explain their use of Web 2.0 in the classroom.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Teachers will incorporate one or more of these activities into lessons that can be used in their own room.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Evaluation.

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Day 7: Developing Lessons with Your Team **

 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Activator - Question and Answer Session. Review of the “Favorite Activities” from the week.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Break-Out session to meet with teams, explore tools, and develop activities and lesson plans to teach on Day 8 to other small groups.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Determine which lessons would benefit the most from being practiced in front of colleagues.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Save all lessons to a shared drive so that all teachers will be able to access all lessons created throughout the training.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Evaluation.

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Day 8: Getting Comfortable Teaching with the Technology **

 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Activator – Randomized grouping activity to determine which groups will present during the first rotation and which will present during the second.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Rotation 1: Groups present, other teachers sit in as “students” on the lessons
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Rotation 2: Remainder of groups present, other teachers sit in as “students” on the lessons.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Save all lessons to the flash drive for later use.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Workshop Evaluation via Survey Monkey.