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 * Staff Professional Development Presentation.**

Staff Development Day, Term 4, 2011
 * Implementation: **

Staff professional development unit as part of an ongoing series of opportunities. Staff have completed varying levels of ICT competence and have already undertaken a variety of opportunities to develop their skills.
 * Year Level and Student Context **:

Having a 1to1 laptop program running throughout Years 9 through to 12, staff are aware of the expectation for self improvement and, to varying degrees, have taken ownership of their personal journey. In this matter, the college staff are representative of most organisations with early adopters featuring at about 30%, 55% making up those who would like training but expect the college to provide the time, opportunity and resources. The final 15% make up those who are waiting for the issue to go away and / or hoping that retirement will be soon.

English, Science and Mathematics staff have been preparing for the initial implementation of the Australian Curriculum in 2012. They have been eagerly awaiting the publication of resources and standards from ACARA but have not fully engaged with the understandings required for ICT embedding into the curriculum.

**Evidence:** Evidence can be found in the following locations: For the PREZI presentation used on the day - click here For the speech organisation used with the Prezi - click here For the staff feedback from the day - see below the speech organisation section. For snapshots of the live Curriculum Tool demonstration (filemaker) - click here

This item is a staff presentation on the embedded nature of ICT in the Australian Curriculum. designed to further explain, at a whole staff level, the expectations of the embedding of ICT into the curriculum and to justify the required effort in terms of benefit to students' educational objectives.
 * Item Overview: **

Duration is 90 minutes (QCoT certification).

Objectives are listed on the PREZI presentation.

**Reason for Inclusion:** As this university course is about pedagogical leadership, both at the classroom level and at the whole school level, this component offers a variety of emphasis from the two previous components. This also provided an opportunity for me to share with my colleagues, my most recent professional development opportunities.

**Development and Planning and Curriculum Links:** The objectives of the presentation centred around providing an opportunity for staff to interact with the ICT objectives in the Australian Curriculum and to have an opportunity to discuss how this might look in their developing units. Quotations were taken directly from the online Australian Curriculum syllabus documents.

The presentation was designed to model how teachers could use online tools for specific presentation in the classroom with groups of students in an interactive way.

**Teaching and learning approach:** The core of the presentation was prepared using Prezi.com with links to other useful resources. Our usual presentation mode for staff development days is a standardised Powerpoint file which is made available for staff to review on the College servers.

An outline of the presentation can be found here and the actual PREZI used can be found here.

**My Learnings:** I found that explaining the concept of the TPACK framework to my colleagues forced me to consider practical applications of the framework outside of my experience set. Some of the staff at the college have personally struggled with their personal ICT skills set and, whilst they quite openly describe themselves as very effective educators, have little personal time for professional development in ICT. Even so, the improvements in the use of ICT throughout the school has been quite noticeable, with a marked improvement in attitudes to teachers with high usage of ICT in their classes. (Previously, it was seen as a distraction from "real" teaching by some who could be described as pedagogical fundamentalists.)

Using the TPACK framework as a model has given these teachers a reference point to enter into this important discussion. Seeing their pedagogical values upheld and supported by technology rather than being threatened by it has given them some of the necessary vocabulary to discuss moving forward with their learning.

**Further Reflections and Information:** The ICT choices in this presentation, although obvious choices, have provided enhancements to the opportunities in the classroom for some of these teachers. A number of staff have personally approached me to let me know that they are now experimenting with PREZI in their lesson preparation.

Our Special Needs coordinator has expressed the view that the "share this presentation" function would be particularly useful for our students with special needs.