Proposed+Agenda+for+Year-Long+Staff+Development+Activities


 * Helms In-Service/Professional Development Year-Long Agenda**
 * **Month** || **Module Topic** || **Content** || **Potential Participants** ||
 * August || SAT Prep || *Introduction to SAT Prep Strategies
 * Overview of Standards for 21st Century Learners and Technology Standards
 * Sample Strategy Lessons || All interested Faculty ||
 * September || I Respond Units || *Instructions for How To Use I-Respond Units
 * Use of I-Respond Units in Formative and Summative Assessments
 * Development of I-Respond Assessments || All interested Faculty ||
 * October || Cobb Virtual Library || *Cobb Virtual Library Resources for each content area || All interested Faculty and Staff ||
 * November || Standards Based Grading || *Overview of Practice
 * Research Supporting Practice
 * Implementation Process || All interested Faculty ||
 * December || Blogs || *Advantages of Blogs over Websites
 * How To Set Up a Blog
 * Implementing Setup of Teacher Blog || All interested Faculty and Staff ||
 * January || Webquests || *Why a Webquest?
 * Tying Webquests to Standards
 * Choosing a Webquest Template
 * Choose a topic for a Webquest || All interested Faculty and Staff ||
 * February || Wikis || *Can Wikis Be Good?
 * How to use a Wiki in your classroom
 * Wiki Set-up
 * Including a Wiki within your content || All interested Faculty and Staff ||
 * March || Narrated Powerpoints || *How to create a Narrated Powerpoint
 * How to create Narrated Slide Shows in other formats
 * Create a narrated lecture for your students to use in review and makeup || All interested Faculty ||
 * April || Creating Review Games – Jeopardy, Millionaire, etc. || *How to use as formative assessments
 * How to find free templates
 * Create a review game for your class || All interested Faculty and Staff ||