{"id":718,"date":"2015-09-08T02:13:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T02:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/?p=718"},"modified":"2017-05-28T20:00:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T20:00:29","slug":"a-year-with-ruben-puentedura-redesigning-traditional-professional-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/2015\/09\/08\/a-year-with-ruben-puentedura-redesigning-traditional-professional-development\/","title":{"rendered":"A Year with Ruben Puentedura: Redesigning Traditional Professional Development"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past Wednesday\u00a0marked the third and final installment of \u00a0Ridley College<\/a>‘s year-long SAMR, EdTech Quintet, and TPCK professional development with Dr. Ruben Puentedura. \u00a0It was a year that required\u00a0ongoing faculty commitment to professional learning, a willingness to take risks in \u00a0classrooms, and a genuine curiosity about the ‘transformative’ (and often disruptive) impact of technology in 21st century curriculum design. \u00a0It was PD\u00a0that asked a lot from teachers, teachers \u00a0already ensconced in task forces, coaching assignments, activities and community service, IB training, and full course loads.<\/p>\n

When I first envisioned a partnership with Dr. Puentedura, my hope was that it\u00a0would spark a new community dialogue in our School, complete with a shared language for both teachers and administrators, about the role of technology in teaching and learning. My hope was\u00a0that it would further inspire us to take risks, create and innovate, and push our students to do the same. What I witnessed over the course of the year surpassed all expectations.<\/p>\n

Design<\/strong>: I think what helped to make this a\u00a0personalized and\u00a0rewarding\u00a0experience, was that teachers were active participants in their learning. \u00a0In many ways they shaped the design of their PD, tailoring it to their proclivities and interests. \u00a0Sessions\u00a0were structured to give teachers the freedom to choose what they wanted to research, restructure, or design. \u00a0The overall structure of the PD\u00a0was a blend of lecture, group inquiry, design, informal peer presentation, and Q and A. \u00a0In the first session in August, Dr. Puentedura presented his SAMR framework and the EdTech Quintet model and fielded our queries. \u00a0By that afternoon teachers worked\u00a0in breakout sessions and began\u00a0applying SAMR\u00a0directly to their chosen lesson or unit of instruction.<\/p>\n

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Innovate<\/strong>: The second session in November again gave teachers direct access to Dr. Puentedura. \u00a0In small imitate group settings, teachers shared their applications and outcomes with one another. \u00a0 Dr. Puenteudra provided personalized critique and feedback. \u00a0Teachers left these sessions with a renewed focus, new ideas, and ofttimes merged their projects across curriculum.<\/p>\n

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Reflect<\/strong>: Our last session this past week\u00a0had teachers voluntarily share their experiences in\u00a0a full faculty assembly. They reflected openly on the strengths and weaknesses of various steps and aspects of their action plans. \u00a0These sharing sessions provided an excellent overview of this year-long experiment. Special thanks to Ridley faculty\u00a0Gillian Fournier<\/a>, Allison Harding<\/a>, Scott Vernon, and Chris Gordon for their courage and willingness to participate in this tech “show and share” session. They brought SAMR to life and demonstrated what taking risks in the classroom can achieve. \u00a0The day closed with a final presentation\u00a0from Dr. Puentedura\u00a0about ‘designing for growth’ and\u00a0maintaining a culture of innovation and risk taking.<\/p>\n

It was truly a rich and vibrant PD series, and I am honored that I was apart of it. Great things are happening in our classrooms everyday and there is much we can learn from one another. We must make time for these conversations as they are vital to our growth and development as a community of learners. \u00a0As a school, we are now equipped with a shared language, experience, and reservoir of ideas and best practice. \u00a0While I am sad to say “Goodbye” to Ruben for now, I am grateful for his time and dedication to our\u00a0Faculty.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Puentedura has uploaded his presentation slides from his time at Ridley on his weblog. \u00a0Included here for your convenience are all three presentations.<\/p>\n

August 27, 2014. SAMR In The Classroom<\/a><\/p>\n

November 28, 2014. SAMR In The Classroom: Developing Sustainable Practice<\/a><\/p>\n

September 2, 2015. Technology in Education: Designing For Growth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This past Wednesday\u00a0marked the third and final installment of \u00a0Ridley College‘s year-long SAMR, EdTech Quintet, and TPCK professional development with Dr. Ruben Puentedura. \u00a0It was a year that required\u00a0ongoing faculty commitment to professional learning, a willingness to take risks in \u00a0classrooms, and a genuine curiosity about the ‘transformative’ (and often disruptive) impact of technology in … Continue reading “A Year with Ruben Puentedura: Redesigning Traditional Professional Development”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1],"tags":[29,36,35],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-redesigning-pd","category-uncategorized","tag-pd","tag-puentedura","tag-samr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}