Summary of Staff Development

Summary of Staff Development

Name: Kirsten Carter, Ecole Swan River South School, Ryan Maksymchuk, Swan Valley Regional Secondary School, Janet Martin, Taylor School

Session: Microsoft Certified Peer Coaching© Facilitator Training
Delivered by:
Puget Sound Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology

Location: Princess Avenue Campus, Red River Community College
Hampton Inn & Suites
Winnipeg, MB

Date(s): August 21 to 25, 2006 and April 17 to 20, 2007,
dates inclusive

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Details: For a week in August 2006, as well as follow-up training for four days in April, 2007 to finish the certification process, we attended Microsoft Peer Coaching Facilitator Training in Winnipeg, MB.

Our time was spent receiving specific training on the Peer Coaching Process, as well as learning how effective Peer Coaching can be as a school-based Professional Development Model as well as its effectiveness in relation to current approaches to school-improvement.

As of the posting of this entry, our plan is to begin to use our new skills to develop The Peer Coaching Model in Swan Valley School Division in September of 2007. Our roles will be different in each school, but our common purpose will be to assist with the integration of technology foundation skills with both best teaching practices and lesson design.

Wikis In Plain English

via Bud The Teacher, check out this neat clip about what a wiki is (in case you were wondering)...

Find the clip here, and I also put up a link on the bottom of the blog, so that you can find it again...

Cheers,

Ryan

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