- Employ teaching/learning strategies effective for digital-age century learners
- Create an instructional unit that uses technology in a variety of ways to enhance student learning and achievement
Daily Exit Ticket
Monday Morning, July 19
- Morning Activities with Melissa Marggraf
- EduCaching (Eggs) Activity to Explore Kihei Charter School Core Themes, Ideas, and Principles
Monday Afternoon, July 19
Tuesday Morning, July 20
- Problem Solving Activity #1 + Frequent Reflection: Designing a Learning Space for
Digital-Age Learners - Cafeteria
- Setting the Scene: Introducing the Book - Computer Lab
- Foundations of STEM Across the Curriculum - Computer Lab
- Establishing Networking Mechanisms for Sharing Teaching and Learning Strategies
- Computer Lab
- Personal Blogs Using School Concept
- Classroom Blogs Using Blogger, WordPress, or other blogging software
- Examples:
- Examples of Wikis
- Collaborative Wiki: Moving Kihei Charter School from GOOD to GREAT
- Foundations of Constructivist Learning
- Cafeteria
- Puzzle #1 + Reflection - Cafeteria
- Puzzle Guidelines: Choose one type of puzzle (sudoku, pattern recognition, rubik's cube, construction puzzles, stick puzzles, disentanglement puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, lock puzzles, spot the difference puzzles, tangram puzzles, lateral thinking puzzles or logic puzzles) and work on completing this/these puzzles each morning and afternoon of the workshop. The purpose of this assignment is to think metacognitively about your thinking process while completing one type of puzzle. You will journal this experience each morning and afternoon and we will share our personal development as thinkers and puzzle solvers.
- Hands-On Puzzles
(Individual)
- Sudoku
- Ken Ken
- Jigsaw Puzzles
- Disentanglement puzzles
- Tangram puzzles
- Rubik'S Cube
- Hands-On Puzzles
(Two people)
- Online Puzzles
(Individual)
- Exit Ticket
Tuesday Afternoon, July 20
- Teacher-created Instructional Units
- Computer Lab
- Unit Components
- Unit Guidelines
- 3- to 4-week unit including
- essential/guiding questions for the unit
- a timeline for the unit
- an assessment strategy/tool for evaluating student performance
- alignment with Hawaii K-12 Standards
- integration of 2-3 Adaptive Curriculum Activity Objects (math and science teachers) or 2-3 interactive online activities (langauge arts and social studies teachers and teachers of special subjects)
- integration of a GPS/EduCaching Activity
- integration of an activity that uses Google Web 2.0 tools
- integration of an activity that uses other Web 2.0 tools
- incorporatation of links to online resources
- use of hands-on activities, problem solving, higher-order thinking, and other strategies modeled during our workshop
- use of real-world data, spreadsheets and graphs, case studies, thinking webs (Inspiration, bubbl.us, etc.) Wordle webs, blogs, wikis, and interactive puzzles
- Brainstorming and sharing instructional unit topics
- Collecting print and online materials to support instructional units
- Using Google Maps
in K-12 Classrooms
to Create Curricular Units
- Reviewing/Revising Wednesday's Agenda
- Exit Ticket
Wednesday Morning, July 21
- Collaborative Wiki: Moving Kihei Charter School from GOOD to GREAT - Cafeteria
- Viewing Idea Webs - Cafeteria
- Digital Photos of Participants - Cafeteria
- CommonCraft Videos
- Using Google Web 2.0 Tools
in K-12 Classrooms
to Improve Student Achievement
- Computer Lab
- Incorporating Google Web 2.0 Tools in Instructional Units - Cafeteria
- For Fun: Educational Jargon Generator (Example: envision visionary solutions)
- Puzzle #2 + Reflection - Cafeteria
Wednesday Lunch:
Watch the Google Apps Video - Cafeteria
Wednesday Afternoon, July 21
- Exit Ticket for Wednesday Morning
- EduCaching Activity: Sorting, Categorizing, Graphing
- Computer Lab
- Using Other Web 2.0 Tools in K-12 Settings - Cafeteria
- Puzzle #3 + Reflection - Cafeteria
- More on Using Google Web 2.0 Tools in K-12 Classrooms
to Improve Student Achievement
- Computer Lab
- Google Maps
- Google Earth
- Google Docs
- Google Mail
- Other Google Tools
- Planning Our Workshop Video to be Posted on TeacherTube - Computer Lab
- Reviewing/Revising Thursday's Agenda - Computer Lab
- Exit Ticket - Computer Lab
Thursday Morning, July 22
- Welcome - Cafeteria
- Individual Worktime and Individual Help on Instructional Units - Computer Lab
- Improving Student Achievement through Professional Learning Communities (PLC) and Professional Learning Networks (PLN) - Cafeteria
- Building and Growing a PLC and PLN within Kihei Charter School - Cafeteria
- Online Professional Resources Supporting PLCs and PLNs - Cafeteria
- Puzzle #4 + Reflection - Cafeteria
- Sharing Puzzle Experiences - Cafeteria
Thursday Afternoon, July 22
- Reflecting Kihei Charter School 2010-2011 Goals in Instructional Units
- Where Do We Go From Here?
- Refining and Actualizing School-wide Sustained Professional Development Goals (Face-to-Face and Online)
- Refining and Actualizing Personal Professional Development Goals (Face-to-Face and Online)
- Sharing Instructional Units in Small Groups
- Sharing Workshop Movie
- Collaborative Wrap-Up
- Personal Reflections: Reflect on your growth in each area of this workshop and specifically answers the questions of (1) how this workshop helped develop your thinking skills and teaching skills; and (2) how you will incorporate workshop strategies modeled over the last few days in your classroom; and (3) how you will persoanlly help move Kihei Charter School from GOOD to GREAT.
- Post-Survey
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