1. Implementing
Powering Up Students
Judy Byers Carlene Walter
http://schools.spsd.sk.ca/curriculum/techyteacher/

2. Timeline
November
Spring 2012 Fall October November
June 2012 - June
Applications 2012 Weekly 2012 Surveys 2012
Initial Weekly
accepted and Meetings & Action Powered Up
meeting with Meetings
school teams & PD Plans Students
School Teams & PD
identified Opportunities Submitted Begins
Opportunities

3. Setting a Vision
What are your long-term goals?
What are your short-term goals?

4. Establishing Goals
Where are you? Where are you going?
What is your staff’s What are your
instructional level staff’s goals with
with technology? Powering Up Students?

5. Establishing Goals
Determine Where Your School Is
• Have staff complete What is Your Instructional Level
With Technology? survey.
Determine Where Your School Is Going
• Create a school Action Plan based on data, in
conjunction with the school’s lead teachers (Tech
Sidekicks).

6. Establishing Goals
Determine The Direction
• Describe, in detail, a specific learning experience that
would take place in your classroom as a participant in
Powering Up Students.
• How do you envision teaching and learning in your
classroom would change as a participate in Powering
Up Students?

7. Putting Goals Into Action
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How can coteaching How can coplanning How can Tech
be structured to build respectful Sidekicks alleviate
share instructional tasks embedded in technology and
responsibility and curriculum instructional
foster support? actualization? issues?

8. Putting Goals Into Action
Co-teaching
Team Teaching
Complementary Instruction
Supportive Learning

9. Putting Goals Into Action
Co-Planning
• Gather key information about upcoming curriculum, projects and students’ needs
Before
Meeting
• Decide which co-teaching models will be used, how to group students, and which
instructional strategies would meet the students’ learning needs
During • Decide on “roles” during co-teaching
Meeting • Determine method for assessing students’ achievement
• Reflect on students’ achievement
• Plan, based on student data, how to adapt the instruction to meet the needs of the
After students.
Meeting

10. Determining Logistics
_ _
What are the
What peripherals will
procedures for the
you need?
use of the devices?

11. Survey Students
What devices
will the
students
bring?

12. Communicate
Expectations
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Learn Model Share

13. Communicate Expectations
Learn
• Utilize student devices in transformational technology instruction.
• Participate in ongoing professional development.
• Collaborate with other Powering Up Students teachers.
Model
• Co-teach with a school-based teacher to provide modelling of and
deepening learning of transformational technology integration with
student devices.
• Be a model classroom for teachers in your school, across the
division, and beyond.
Share
• Contribute to a blog to document your learning journey.
• Communicate with parents about Powering Up Students.
• Present at Teachnology.

14. Provide Continual Support
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Professional Planning and
Weekly Support
Development Sharing

15. Provide Continual Support
Weekly Support
• Thursday afternoon and Friday morning
• Instructional and assessment strategies and management issues
Professional Development
• Full-Day Professional Development before Roll-Out
• Action Planning, Logistics, and App Sharing
• LibGuides
• TechyTeacher
Ongoing Planning and Sharing
• Co-teaching
• Co-planning
• Blog

16. Prepare Students
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Expect
Share Model
Transparent
Expectations Appropriate Use
Learning

17. Prepare Students
• Share responsibilities and expectations
• Train routines and procedures
• Model appropriate use
• Teach specific apps which will be used often
• Give students time to explore

18. How will
the students
share
their
learning?

19. REMEMBER…

20. Do
• Have a vision for teaching and learning with technology
• Plan ahead
• Be flexible and make changes as needed
• Be strategic in placing devices in classrooms
• Equip teachers
• Prepare students
• Develop consistent procedures and policies

21. Don’t
• Put the cart before the horse
• Get caught up with the "hype"
• Focus only on the technology
• Go subject-wide at first
• Forget about next year - sustainability

22. Credits
• Clipart.com (purchased subscription)
• Shutterstock.com (purchased photos)