David+Gagnon

media type="file" key="Movie on 2011-02-26 at 10.13

> Aside for a bit of trouble from my computer with the video recording, our last task, defining how ICT affects the essential elements (in our case concepts). Which I found difficult to fully understand and comprehend. > > I still am not sure I fully understand and comprehend it!! > > Although I already knew this in the back of my head/unconsciously, I fully realized today during the task of giving feedback on the document "Role of ICT in the PYP", that enabling ICT in our school can be a real challenge when we don't have the proper support and understand from the leading management and if they don't use it and model it for the rest of the staff.
 * **Something that I wrestled with:**
 * **Same as I just said.**
 * **Any "a-ah" moment:**


 * My Action Plan (also attached here): [[file:Action_Plan.doc]]**

//What do we want to learn/achieve?//  || **Evidence of achievement of, or progress towards, goal** //How will we know what we have learned/achieved?//  || =Strategies to meet goal = //How best will we learn/achieve our goal?//  || **Date to be achieved**  || **People and resources needed**  || Transitioning from teaching ICT as a subject, to becoming an ICT resource that staff in the school can book whenever they want for support, training, development of new resources, etc. ex. BISS, WAB, ISB, Shanghai American, Concordia, Yokohama, IS Bangkok, Sinarmas (Jakarta), WAB (runs like that for 5-6 years)   || *   Reduction of number of lessons in my timetable with progression towards complete removal of ICT lessons. Completely free/flexible timetable by      September 2011    ||   Everyone needs to agree and be on board: Senior management Class Teachers ICT coordinator/teachers   || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Dedicating more time for Staff trainings || *  <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> Regular group trainings on a voluntary or mandatory base. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Otherwise by trying to dedicate more time for staff trainings after school. ||  <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Mid-April 2011    ||   <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">ICT coordinator <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Senior Management <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Grade teachers <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Specialist teachers (they may need trainings too!)   || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Getting and convincing each Grade coordinators to set up a blog or Moodle course for their Grades and use it actively ||  <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Every grade coordinator will have a blog or Moodle page up to interact with their students and parents. ||  <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">By using the available training time, having reached GOAL #2. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">If not, trying to dedicate more time for training. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Also needed is to persuade the senior management to make this mandatory and request every teachers to do this. ||  <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Mid-May 2011    ||   <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">ICT Coordinator <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Senior Management <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Class Teachers <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Specialist teachers   || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Make time for training staff on WIKIs so we can <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">improve the way we work collaboratively ||  <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Teachers will use WIKIs instead of using Word files for all their planning. ||  <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Training will be organized shortly to address this. Teachers will be asked to complete on-line tasks to assess their learning. ||  <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">March 2011    ||   <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Myself, projector, computers for staff to have hands-on time. || || ||  ||  ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Goal
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**GOAL #1:**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Regular meetings with grade coordinators or teachers for collaborative planning. Regular trainings, for groups or individual teachers.   ||   <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Convince senior management to free my timetable and join UOI lessons instead for ICT support in-class or in computer room.    ||   <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Smaller timetable by beginning of April 2011
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**GOAL #2:**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> Individual or group trainings on request.    ||   <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">By freeing my timetable, having reached GOAL #1.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**GOAL #3:**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">GOAL #4