Elizabeth Town Area School District
Team Members: Todd Davis, Mike Sernoffsky, Nancy Weikel, Jeanette Norton, Jason Kingsborough, Melissa Anderson, Becky Bair Heather Geist, Katie Niven
Community: IU-13 Community Year 1, 2010-2011
Our district is anxiously awaiting the opening of a new building which will see classrooms equipped with SmartBoards, six laptop carts, two computer labs and a more stable network. While teachers are excited about this new technology they are also apprehensive because we have had little technology professional development. With budget situations as they are there will be no funds to provide additional coaches to support the teachers as they begin using their new tools. With this in mind our plan includes professional development to provide teachers knowledge of the tools available to them and how to use those tools for instruction. We plan on organizing the teachers into professional learning communities based upon the tools they would most like to learn so that they can participate in job embedded professional development that helps them recognize themselves as life-long learners. While working together, the teachers will provide support for each others’ learning and use of technology and promote effective educational practices for student learning.
About Action Research Projects
Action research is a process in which Powerful Learning Team members collaboratively examine their own educational practice systematically and carefully. Action research is:
- Disciplined inquiry into a problem or possibility within the school or classroom
- Collaborative and usually takes place in a community of practice
- Meaningful, positive, and reflective
- Data-driven, action-based, improvement-focused
- Transformative
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