It is a pretty exciting time for me. I'm very excited about the decision our Board of Education has made regarding the provision of MacBooks to all our teaching staff, full time and part time, continuing and temporary contracts. The teachers must apply for the laptop, but the costs are being handled by the board over a 4 year lease program.The laptops will be ordered next week and the rollout will be held over much of a week before the Winter Break. I'll be coordinating training sessions on various pieces of software and web 2.0 tools from January through to June and we will have summer days during the July/August break.
The purpose of providing a laptop to our teaching staff to have available for them to use at any time of the day they wish is to enable them to support/enhance instruction in the classroom. The learning opportunities for staff though workshops and peer tutoring will help teachers, individually and collectively, as they become more familiar and confident in using this resource to support student achievement.
I'm even thinking of a "laptop camp" similar to the Hypercard camps we used to have many years ago.
This should be a very interesting project, one which I am happy to see get rolling before I retire.
The purpose of providing a laptop to our teaching staff to have available for them to use at any time of the day they wish is to enable them to support/enhance instruction in the classroom. The learning opportunities for staff though workshops and peer tutoring will help teachers, individually and collectively, as they become more familiar and confident in using this resource to support student achievement.
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