2. Sara Hunter, STEM Coach
@ICETeacherSara
Ed tech enthusiast, Kidblog evangelist,
passionate about working with teachers!
ISTE Emerging Leader 2013
Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers Academy
2013
7. Planning to Flip PD
● ISTE NETS for Coaches
● Collaboration with flippedpd.org founders Kristin Daniels
and Wayne Feller in Stillwater, MN, and Jen Hegna in
Byron, MN
● Setting purpose and mission
“To support the ZSTEM mission and teachers’ goals with integrating STEM into all
content areas through an effective use of time and technology resources with job-
embedded professional learning.”
8. Scheduling the Flip...
...and the non-negotiables
●Respectful of teachers’ time
●Consistent sub throughout the year for
minimal disruptions, with optional sub plans
●Coach’s classes still received direct
instruction
●5 Face-to-face meetings throughout the year
(September, October, November/December, February, April)
14. What does a FlippedPD
meeting look like?
●Greetings and Celebrations
●Reflect on goal/target progress and prior
communication
●Plan for next steps including tasks for coach
and teacher, schedule additional co-teaching
support
●End with “notes to self”
●All meeting notes recorded in Google Drive
doc by coach and teacher
15. What does a FlippedPD
meeting look like?
●Google Drive Doc for each teacher
●Literacy Coach participated in first face-to-
face meetings with teachers
●Teachers began to collaborate with one
another for projects
What happens in between meetings?
19. Where do we go from here?
● Continue our journey!
● Focused goals in
science/math
instruction
● Co-teaching support
● Small group meetings
● Embedded reflection
and data collection
● Celebrations and
sharing our stories
Why?
-Foster Innovation
-Competitive in a Global Economy
-See outdated icons with images of floppy discs for "save," a telephone for "phone," and a snail mail envelope for "mail" have oddly decorated their tablets and smart phone screen
-Think History has always had its' own channel
-Have never seen an airplane ticket
-Can't picture people carrying luggage through airports instead of rolling it
-Live in an era of self-proclaimed celebrities, and instant stardom, famous for being famous
Meet Your Individual Technological Needs - Instructional Technology Support - in your corner
Just In Time Training
Tech PD can't happen one a sit and get basis.
-implementing the flipped model into our professional development with Sara & Kathy
- Once a month meet with Sara & Kathy, sub is provided and will already have a Lifeskills/character development lesson plan to use.
- Between meetings, continue dialogue through Google Doc, media library, and additional meetings/demo or co-teaching lessons as needed
- we want our students to see the possibilities and innovate, we must show them how
- moving beyond traditional professional development into a personalized learning setting
-facilitate professional growth, learning goals
-support tech integration (looks different in each situation, seeing the puzzle pieces for how they fit your needs)
-transition slide into the five areas to focus on (the target/learning goal)
today - (survey of general needs)
-September (first meeting to assess specific needs and/or begin planning with use of Google Doc)
-ongoing (monthly meeting with a coach on personal or team projects)
-ongoing (we develop videos that share great ideas and teach specific skills)
- reflection and sharing will be an important component
- earn PGPs (RISE artifacts?)
building team skills
Data Sharing
Google APPS (students have GMAIL!!)
Backchannel Conversations
Web 2.0 Sites
Between Teachers
Between Students
--- GLOBAL aspects:
Skyping classrooms worldwide
PLNs with other content / grade level teachers
Sharing work world-wide - creating content for audiences intended outside of the classroom
Communicating with parents, other teachers, outside personal learning networks.
Videos, Websites,
New ways to share and gain information.
Utilizing EDM and Fusion resources to their fullest extent
Video, podcasting, web tools
Facilitating discussion and project work online
Freeing time to work with individual students
