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**Teaching with 21st Century Tools**
//__Establishing A Culture for Learning__: //

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. They will be provided with the skills and ability to use their device to create and maintain a Professional Community aligned with Common Core Standards, The Partnership for 21st Century Skills and the Teacher Competencies.


 * __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)
 * Google Site
 * Overview of Session 2
 * Evaluation

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 * Icebreaker: TPACK Framework**

//**Common Core ToolKit**// //The Common Core Toolkit: A Teacher Leadership Institute// program 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 -**

//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.
 * Alignment of Common Core State Standards -**
 * 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.

Domain 1: Planning and Preparation Domain 2: The Classroom environment Domain 3: Instruction Domain 4: Professional Responsibilities
 * Alignment of the Framework for Teaching -**
 * 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?**
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 * Activity:** Brainstorm what an Effective Online Professional Community looks like
 * 1) On post-its, individually write down your ideas of what an Effective Online Professional Community looks like.
 * 2) As a group, we will create a Wordlecloud of all of your thoughts
 * 3) Which words are bigger? Why do you think this is?

Purpose NYC EdTech
 * Building a Professional Learning Community:**
 * Part 1:**
 * Communicating with Blogs**
 * Create an Account
 * 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? 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.
 * Activity:** Take this Poll
 * 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. Purpose Next session: Using Web 2.0 Tools to Design Coherent Instruction
 * Creating
 * Building
 * Tagging or grouping
 * Following
 * cazoulay
 * iaconowork
 * ragogli
 * vlambrides
 * Sharing
 * with your PLC
 * with participants
 * Part 3:**
 * Building an Instructional Workspace with Google Sites**
 * Google Accounts
 * Lifegrantnyc.com
 * OPALgrant.com
 * Accessing Google Sites
 * Building Framework
 * Adding NYCEdTech Blog Link
 * Adding Social Bookmarking Resources
 * Activity:** Building your Online Community
 * Activity:** Building your Online Community

Reasons for Building a Collaborative Community/Learning CommunIty
 * 1) Staff Development
 * 2) Curriculum Development
 * 3) Resource Center
 * 4) Transparency
 * 5) Scheduling
 * 6) Inquiry
 * 7) Observations

Process for effective implementation:
 * Developing a Management team
 * Clear Goals/Objectives

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

Common Core Resources Instructional Expectations PD tasks Engagenyc

Evaluation