pd21
Supporting Innovative 21st Century Teaching
pd21 provides teachers with the technology skills training, integration strategies and classroom-ready resources needed to create student-centered 21st Century learning environments.
Skills-based staff development training tends to focus on developing isolated technology skills. Teachers may learn, and even master, technology skills, but they do so without developing relevant strategies for integrating it into their standards-based curriculum and instruction in order to support improved student learning.
Weaving technology training into the context of best practices activities provides teachers with the high-quality, relevant resources and experiences necessary to support improved 21st Century instructional practices and effectiveness in the classroom. Combining technology skills with integration training brings the focus of technology implementation back to where it belongs – to effectively engage, motivate and teach students.
pd21 provides:
- Anytime, anywhere access to practical, effective PD content, including technology skills tutorials, interactive workshops, instructor-certified workshops and access to a library of high-quality classroom-ready technology integration projects
- District-wide solutions that support systemic change
- Support for standards-based 21st century lesson design
- Job-embedded professional learning with a library of classroom-ready technology integration projects
Outcomes:
- Understanding key concepts in effective use of classroom technology
- Rapid transference of understanding into classroom use of technology-embedded lessons
- Progress monitoring of professional development activities to support systemic change
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