Teaching21stCenturyToolsSp2012

=**Teaching with 21st Century Tools **=

//__Establishing A Culture for Learning__: //

 * __Objective:__** Who am I on the web, and what does my classroom look like on the web? Participants will develop skills and use tools to become a 21st Century Educational Leader. Enhance teaching and learning in your classroom by creating and sharing best practices in your school building. Participants will receive the appropriate hardware to become 21st century educators. They will be provided with the skills and ability to use their device to create and maintain a professional presence for collaboration and communication among professionals. Participants will create a google site for instructional purposes.


 * Agenda: **
 * Welcome and Introductions
 * Goals and Objectives
 * Common Core Toolkit
 * Purpose
 * Alignment
 * Best Practices
 * Are you a 21st Century Educator?
 * Building your PLC (Professional Learning Community)
 * Blog
 * SocialBookmarking
 * Overview of Session 2
 * Evaluation

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 * Icebreaker: TPACK Framework**

//**Common Core ToolKit**// //The Common Core Toolkit: A Teacher Leadership Institute// prepares teacher leaders to meet the needs, challenges and demands of the modern day educational environment by incorporating the latest information technology practices into their daily routines. This program promotes effective integration of technology into their classrooms and provides them with the technology skills to implement the Common Core Standards and Danielson’s Framework for Teaching.
 * Purpose**


 * Alignment of Common Core State Standards - **
 * //College & Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing K-5:// Responding to Literature 11. Develop personal, cultural, textual, and thematic connections within and across genres as they respond to texts through written, digital, and oral presentations, employing a variety of media and genres. **
 * //College & Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading 6-12//: 11. Develop personal, cultural, textual, and thematic connections within and across genres as they respond to texts through written, digital, and oral presentations, employing a variety of media and genres. **
 * ** Speaking & Listening Standards 6-12; **
 * ** Comprehension & Collaboration 6-8; 1e. Seek to understand and communicate with individuals from different perspectives and cultural backgrounds. **
 * ** Comprehension & Collaboration 9-12; 1e. Seek to understand other perspectives and cultures and communicate effectively with audiences or individuals from varied backgrounds. **

__**Alignment of the Framework for Teaching -**__ Domain 1: Planning and Preparation Domain 2: The Classroom environment Domain 3: Instruction Domain 4: Professional Responsibilities
 * Priority Component 1e: Designing Coherent Instruction
 * Learning Activities
 * Instructional materials and resources
 * Instructional groups
 * Lesson and unit structure
 * Priority Component 2b: Establishing a Culture for Learning
 * Importance of the content
 * Expectations for learning and achievement
 * Student pride in work
 * Priority Component 3c: Engaging Students in Learning
 * Activities and assignments
 * Grouping of students
 * Instructional materials and resources
 * Structure and pacing
 * Priority Component 4a: Reflecting on Teaching
 * Accuracy
 * Use in future teaching

__**Best Practices - Navigating the DOE's online resources**__

Partnership for 21st Century Skills Common Core Toolkit


 * Activity:** Utilizing the web resources provided by the Common Core Library on [|http://schools.nyc.gov], examine the task, rubric, student work, instructional supports and resources. Comptare these to the Resources from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills CCT.
 * Break**


 * Are you a 21st Century Educator?**
 * Simple k-12


 * Activity:** Brainstorm what an Effective Online Professional Community looks like
 * 1) Using Wall-Wisher (Link), individually write down your ideas of what an Effective Online Professional Community looks like.

__**Building a Professional Learning Community**__ Purpose
 * Part 1:**
 * Communicating with Blogs**
 * Create a Professional Blog
 * Maintaining your blog as a Collaboration tool
 * Setting up Security
 * Posting Resource Link to your ARIS Connect

What part of Danielson's Framework does this activity speak to?
 * Activity:** Take this Poll

Purpose Delicious in the Classroom With Delicious you save, stack and share the web. Instantly save your favorite links, collect your discoveries in stacks, share what you find, and dig deeper into your favorite topics.
 * Part 2:**
 * Creating Resources with Social Bookmarking**

Saving links on delicious makes it easy to find them later on and then share them with anyone. The best way to save a link is to add a [|Delicious bookmarklet] to your browser toolbar so you can instantly save links as you’re bouncing around the web. Or, as you’re browsing Delicious, click "save" next to any link or stack you find interesting.
 * Creating
 * Building
 * Tagging or grouping
 * Following
 * cazoulay
 * iaconowork
 * ragogli
 * vlambrides
 * Sharing
 * with your PLC
 * with participants

__**Tools for Community Building:**__ PB Works WikiSpaces Nings ARIS Google Groups

__**Common Core Resources**__ Instructional Expectations PD tasks Engagenyc