Professional Development Year-Long Agenda

For this project you will develop a potential agenda for one year. Complete the table below
remember this is a draft agenda not detailed descriptions of each module. You will develop the
first module in this course. At the bottom of the page you will find a sample agenda. You can
begin your agenda with any month.
Month Module Topic Content Potential Participants
August Module 1 Instruction on modules and the All teaching staff
school year planning calendar
Guiding learning goals for the
course presented
September Module 2 3 articles, 1 video, and sample All teaching staff
infographic
October Module 3 Infographic site-PiktoChart- All teaching staff
Create free account, tutorial
videos
November Module 3 continued Teachers create infographic All
introducing who they are-add
to LMS for class homepage
December Module 4 Work with PLCs to create and all
implement an infographic to
use in classroom
January Module 4 Continue with PLC work all
Article on classroom use
February Module 5 Article video on assessment all
March Module 6 Create lesson plan with All
infographic for assessment
Sample ELA lesson
April Module 7 Share successes with all
assessment with PLC
May Module 8 Complete all
questionnaire/survey
June
July
Sample Agenda
Month Sample Module Topic Sample Content Potential
Participants
August Online Professional * Instructions for accessing All teachers and
Development to Improve modules support personnel
Instruction * Overview of Standards for 21st
Century Learners, Tech Standards
* Sample connections to
GPS/curriculum content
September Resources to support * Print resources All adults
instruction or other work * Online resources
* Primary resources
October Using smart boards to * Specific software Math teachers
 support instruction * Teacher created programs
November Evaluating online * Sample sites English and
information * Website and information History teachers
evaluation tools
December Information search * Variety of search engines Science teachers
strategies * Variety of search strategies
January GALILEO resources * GALILEO resources for each All teachers
level and content area
February Research models * Variety of research models History and
Science teachers
March Reference citations * Various formats All adults
* Online citation machines
April Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts * Web 2.0 tools All adults