Internship PD Reflections

Date Reflection
8/23/2018 VoiceThread & Kurzweil PD w/Lauren
Turnout – 15 staff
Teachers/staff were able to ask questions at the
end, which helped a lot (individual questions
allowed for the teachers to feel more at ease)
Future – Create a sample (complete one); check
out the program closely – the classes were not
the correct ones on BCPS and had to put a ticket
in; Create a certificate for those that completed
9/17/2018 In 5th grade CIA – Xtra Math PD
Brought results with me regarding what the
teacher results look like.
Popped in during my planning time, which made
the time aspect of Ely’s condition of change much
more manageable.
Showed each teacher how to set their class up –
discovered a problem regarding giving numbers
and explained how to solve it for the teacher who
teaches double math.
Future – create and send out a cheat sheet of the
features of Xtra Math
9/26/2018 In 4th Grade CIA – Xtra Math PD
Showed my teammate how to sign up for Xtra
Math and what the results looked like.
Cut short due to ELA data and planning a lesson
Future – Plan a back-up time wise
10/3/2018 In 3rd Grade CIA – Xtra Math PD
Quick pop-in to check for any problem solving
due to teaching the teachers how to sign-up
previously so that they can start right away and
not wait until October.
Future – Have the teachers share some of their
data with administration. Bring a certificate
example printed to show what it will look like
(got this question from one teacher who had a
really difficult time visualizing).
10/9/2018 Xtra Math Cheat sheet – after delivering the PDs
in CIA regarding XtraMath, people asked for a
cheat sheet to outline the different elements of
XtraMath. Grades 2-5 used this resources and
began printing certificates and some even altered
a few students’ programs so that they can find
more success.
 Future – email a copy to the math action team so
that they can deliver to their teams in a more
efficient manner
10/10/2018 2nd Grade CIA – Xtra Math PD
Didn’t get written into the agenda and had other
important events pop up during my planning.
Wasn’t able to present during the CIA.
Future – meet up with 2nd grade at another time
to check-in regarding Xtra Math.
**Update – able to meet with all of the teachers
separately and got them signed up for Xtra Math.
Made sure to remind them to look at the Cheat
Sheet on Schoology that I posted on 10/9
10/16/2018 Feedback Forum Data tracking – shared a data
tracking resource through Schoology group for
the staff.
STAT teacher also copied and shared through her
DIP Day PD Day.
Received 2 likes on the post and multiple copies
by staff. 4 teachers made use of the feedback
tracking sheet that month.
Future – maybe copy one and put into mailboxes
for each teacher.
10/18/2018 1st Grade CIA – Xtra Math PD
Not necessary, since we changed it so 1st grade
will not start Xtra Math until after winter break.
11/19/2018 Hour of Code – 1 staff for STEM Night to co-teach
together
Created a certificate for the staff member
I loved that she was hesitant to do Hour of Code
with me, but willing to step up so that I had more
hands to lend during the STEM Night activity.
She ended up with a clear passion for coding by
the end and a plan to implement in her classroom
at times.
Before – No one was willing to learn the coding
from the Math Action Team, due to their lack of
comfort with technology (their words)
11/21/2018 Answer Garden, DotStorming, Voci, Powtoons
w/STAT
This professional development was held before
school and got a very positive outcome. I
provided breakfast and cupcakes, which people
were really appreciative of and did wonders at
getting staff to show. 11 people RSVP’d for the
PD and 10 showed. We provided a hand-out,
which had the resources listed with some other
details about them. We provided time for people
to explore each one and also ask questions as
they arose.
The feedback was very positive from this PD and
each member got a certificate to keep for their
own records of Domain 4.
Future – plan more PDs with incentives and
advertise more.