COD 2015 - M288

Tech Tips for School Heads: practical ideas on how to effectively manage your teachers in implementing technology

School heads, vice heads or technology directors

1 sessions, start: 15-Aug

Course detail

Year: 2015
Level: Management
Language: English
Status: Postponed
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Maggie Brennan MA, Ms. Jennifer Verschoor
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ARS 200.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 15 August 2015 09:00 am 12:00 pm

Facilitator/s

Maggie Brennan

Maggie Brennan is an educational technology consultant working in the greater Buenos Aires area. She trains teachers in primary and secondary schools as well as Universities on how to use technology effectively in the classroom. She brings over 10 years of classroom teaching experience all her workshops. She has two master's degrees, one in Educational Technology from New York Institute of Technology and another in Teaching and Spanish from Iona College, also in New York State. The thesis she wrote on incorporating Podcasting into a Foreign Language Classroom was published in the professional technology journal, Networks. She was invited to present her thesis at the AERA conference in Vancouver. She has her undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison with a double major in Spanish and Communication Arts. Most importantly, she loves teaching and she loves kids, and that's what it's all about!.

Jennifer Verschoor

Jennifer Verschoor graduated from St. Andrew's Scots School. She holds a degree in Literary, Technical and Legal Translation as well as a Bachelor's degree in Educational Management, English Teaching and ICT in the Classroom validated by Trinity College London. She holds an MA in Virtual Environments and a Specialization in Education and ICT offered by the Ministry of Education in Argentina. She is the co-author of My First Digital Journey, an ebook published by The Round in December 2012. Currently she is working for the British Council in Argentina and Chile, ESSARP, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Cambridge English and SimpleK12 giving teacher training courses on the integration of ICT. She has been hired by SBS International to co-moderate TIC en el AULA, nominated for an ELTon Award in 2013 under the category Local Innovation.
School heads, vice heads or technology directors
The objectives of this course will be to familiarize school heads and directors with the following topics:
- Webtools for school heads – resources to make your job more efficient and effective.
- What to look for when observing teachers using technology, specifically, how to use interactive whiteboards effectively.
- How to use technology to manage more effective communication between teachers, parents and students, reducing the amount of time you spend managing those same relationships.
- “E-safety” – tracking websites, custom-made browsers, etc., to insure the safety of the students and teachers.
- Information on how other countries manage their technology and inform their community.
- Specific webtools and internet resources for school heads.
- Observation tools and techniques.
- Technology integration tips.
- Information and resources on best uses of technology.
- This course will be co-taught by two professional development trainers with a great deal of international experience. One is Argentinean and one is North American. Knowing how busy school heads are, the course is only 1 session of three hours, instead of the traditional 2 sessions. Therefore it will not be a workshop, but more of an informative presentation with links and additional resources provided.
A bibliography will be furnished upon request.
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