The document outlines a staff development plan to train teachers on how to use the district's new AWARE program. The plan includes introducing AWARE through a video and teacher testimonials, demonstrating the program's features through a PowerPoint, and giving teachers hands-on time to explore AWARE and share their findings. The goal is to help teachers utilize AWARE to access student data and better prepare, adjust, and re-teach lessons. An evaluation survey will collect feedback on the training.

1. EDLD 5342 Week 4 Assignment
Integrating Technology Chart
District Instructional Technology Director-
Provide support and direction to enable staff, students, and the
community to successfully address the educational challenges of an
evolving technological society
Provide the most appropriate, cost effective, and innovative
technology solutions
Ensure that individual campuses have the most current technology
and the know how to use it
Provide campus trainings in the effective use of technology
Technology Department Campus Administration-
Head, Peer Facilitator,
& Tech Liaison- Principal-provides for
technology spending in the
budget, ensures that teachers
Provides assistance in using
are utilizing technology in their
technology to teachers and
students classrooms, and provides
training for staff.
Ensures all technology equipment
is functioning Counselors-ensures students
are taking the needed courses in
Submits work orders for technology and works with the
technology that is not functioning high school CTE program for
correctly recruitment purposes.
Upkeeps the school website
Teachers- Students- Community-
Require the use Take advantage Require a
of technology of the technology knowledge of
that is available technology from
by students
to them the school system
Model the use Explore the Support the
of technology technology school

2. Staff Development Plan
During week 3, I interviewed several stakeholders and discovered that our campus is pretty
efficient at using technology equipment during instruction (i.e. Curriculum on Wheels, document
cameras, promethean boards, Unitedstreaming). Teachers are becoming more and more open
to its use in the classroom; especially after seeing the impact using technology has on student
motivation and performance. However, one thing that I did realize that many teachers were
unaware of is how to use a new program called AWARE that our district has adopted. Being
able to fully utilize AWARE puts a plethora of information at our teacher’s fingertips. Teachers
can pull up information on student demographics, current and historical TAKS scores,
Curriculum Based Assessment scores, intervention information, and student specific information
(i.e. at-risk, GT, Sped, etc.). Therefore, I believe a teacher training in AWARE would be very
beneficial to all teachers. The following is my idea for staff development in using AWARE:
Session Purpose: Help teachers become familiar with AWARE program and it’s uses.
Learning Objectives to Be Addressed: Teachers will be able to use AWARE to: research
current and historical TAKS scores, Curriculum Based Assessment scores, demographic
information, student specific information (i.e. At-risk, GT, Sped, etc.), and intervention
information.
Grade Level: Facilitator: Location: Start Time: 3:30 End-Time: 4:30
6-8 Colencia Reed Library
Learner-Centered Purpose Description Steps Estimated Time
Activity
Introduction To familiarize Brief video 1.Facilitator will 5 minutes
staff with the about AWARE show a brief
AWARE video provided
program by the district of
what other pilot
schools have
said about
aware

3. Personal stories Motivate other Teachers who 1.Facilitator 5 minutes
teachers to use currently are asks volunteers
the program using the to share their
program experience
volunteer to
share their
2.Brief Q & A
thoughts session
AWARE Allow teachers Quickly go over 1.Facilitator 10 minutes
PowerPoint to see all of the highlights of goes over
benefits of using AWARE on PowerPoint
the program PowerPoint
presentation 2.Brief Q & A
session
Hands on period Allows teachers Teachers go to 1.Teachers 20 minutes
to explore the computers and allowed to go to
functions of research computers to
AWARE student explore the
information functions
2.Facilitator
asks teachers to
find specific
information
about a student
3.Teachers
record findings

4. Sharing Teachers gain Teachers share 1.Teachers 15 minutes
insight for each their thoughts report to small
other and ideas with a group to share
small group their findings
2.Facilitator
leads group
discussion on
how information
found in
AWARE can
assist teachers
in preparing,
adjusting, and
re-teaching
lessons
3.Ideas are
written on a
large post-it
note and hung
in the library for
display
Evaluation Get feedback Teachers 1. Facilitator 5 minutes
about the staff complete a distributes
development survey about the surveys to
and whether it presentation teachers
was useful
2. Teachers
complete the
surveys and
return them
Action Plan
Goal: All teachers and students will use technology effectively to engage in teaching,
learning, and communicating.
Objective: Motivate teachers to use technology in instruction and provide students with
access to increase student performance in all areas.
Target Group(s): Teachers, students, & parents
Activity/ Strategy Person(s) Timeline Resources/Estimated Formative
(Include 3) Responsible Cost Evaluation
Provide each Principal- March Provided that 95% of All teachers and
teacher with a Paula Sword 2011- teachers already have students should
promethean board, March access to all have equal

5. document camera, 2012 technology equipment, access to
and projector for the cost should be technology to
use in their approximately $6,000 ensure that all
classroom. to ensure all teachers students receive
have the equipment in every opportunity
their personal rooms. to be successful.
Giving the
necessary
Our Technology liaison technology to
would have to write a every teacher
grant for the needed allows them to
technology due to fully take
budget cuts. advantage of
using that
technology during
instruction to
prepare our
students for a
technology savvy
society. Students
are already using
technology at
home to download
music, play
games, and
communicate with
each other. Using
technology for
educational
purposes is the
next step. Student
motivation will
increase if they
have access to
technology.
Provide trainings Peer Weekly Computer lab Providing weekly
during Teacher Facilitators beginning Promethean board trainings in
University weekly Technology in August technology
in using and Copies of handouts benefits all
liaison
technology (i.e. continuing Cost = $ 0 teachers.
AWARE, throughout Teachers will
Eduphoria, the school learn how to use
Chancery, Mizuni, year different
promethean board programs, enter
use, how to use intervention
Unitedstreaming, information on
PowerPoints, their students,
Excel, Publisher, enter
etc.). documentation

6. like tutoring and
parent phone calls
into Mizuni, gather
reports, analyze
data, and many
more things.
Having the
trainings in a
computer lab
allows teachers to
watch the
presentation and
then log on and
learn through
exploration. If
they need help,
help is there.
Feedback in the
past has been
very positive on
Teacher
University.
Teachers create a All teachers August Computer lab By requiring each
website for and 2012 Teacher computers teacher and
students and administrators administrator to
parents to utilize create and
maintain a
website, students
and parents have
24 hour access to
things like: course
information,
contact
information, how
to schedule
teacher
conferences, etc.
Parents tend to
feel more in the
loop when they
can log on to the
internet and see
what their
students are doing
in class. Then, it
opens dialog
between the
parent and
student about

7. education.
Parents will be
more involved in
their child’s
education.
Offer monthly Peer Monthly Computer lab Offering the
training to parents Facilitators beginning Handouts opportunity for
in how to use Technology in August parents to keep
Parent Connect to liaison and ending up with their
keep up with their in June student’s grades
student’s grades at any time
increases their
involvement in the
education of their
child. Knowing
their parents have
access to their
grades, students
will feel more
responsible for
keeping their
grades up and
work harder in the
process. Parent
Connect opens up
another form of
communication
between the
school and the
parents.
Create a Technology August Access to a classroom Students need to
Technology Club Teacher 2011-June Supplies for building be involved in
for interested 2012 robots, rockets, roller something in
students to join Weekly or coasters, and other order to be
biweekly projects motivated to come
meetings to school.
Cost-$ 2,000 (grant for Offering a
club) technology club
gives interested
student the
chance to be a
part of something
special. Sparking
their interest in
technology in
middle school may
lead them to
choosing a career
in technology in

8. the future.