YCSD Middle School Staff Development

Sun Associates is facilitating a technology integration staff development for four teams of teachers from Strang Middle School. This webpage will contain resources shared and distributed at the sessions as well as, we hope, examples of actual teacher projects created during these sessions.

General Overview for Teacher Participants

This staff development will help you explore your best teaching approaches and how technology can enhance them. Emphasis will be on integrating technology into inquiry and project based learning and teaching - in any subject area. You may already be using the wealth of information, and the communication and collaboration opportunities made possible by the Internet, but you will see examples and learn strategies for optimizing its potential and revitalizing your teaching.

Over the course of the three sessions this spring, will explore the lesson or curriculum unit of your choice and learn to utilize technology applications in new ways. For example, you may find ways to brainstorm and visualize ideas with your students using Inspiration, examine exploratory and collaborative ways to gather, plot, analyze and report data using an Excel spreadsheet, or help students demonstrate their learning with PowerPoint.

You will explore strategies for integrating technology with the purpose of:

There will be three hands-on sessions conducted during the 2002-2003 school year:

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