Learning Opportunity

Strategies for TPACK-based Instructional Coaching

Facilitator: Judi Harris
Date:October 18, 2011
Time:9:00 am to 3:30 pm MTN
Cost:
$195.00
Location: Edmonton (Hilton Garden Inn)
17610 Stony Plain Road
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Session Code: 12-TI-033
Focus: Leadership Curriculum Implementation and Pedagogy

Target Audience

Teacher Leaders, Instructional/Learning Coaches who have completed a previous TPACK-based workshop with Judi, or have in-depth knowledge of the TPACK construct.

About this Learning Opportunity

Most technology integration professional development (PD) begins with and focuses upon educational technologies' affordances: what they can help us to do; and constraints: their limitations. This approach, unfortunately, does not ensure that educational technologies will be well-integrated into instruction keyed to specific content-based learning outcomes. Rapidly disseminating notions of TPACK (the knowledge necessary to integrate technologies effectively into teaching and learning), however, are catalyzing a fundamental shift in the focus and implementation of technology-related professional development.  During this session, Judi will offer instructional coaches research-based strategies and tools for assisting and assessing teachers' TPACK development that are grounded in curriculum and pedagogy, and technological uses that support and are consistent with both.

Bring digital subject or grade resources that address your teaching/learning context to get the most out of this session.

In addition, a series of three 90-minute follow-up webinars with Judi will be offered to session participants in November 2011, January 2012 and February 2012 that will provide follow-up support to coaches who are implementing the strategies and tools introduced during the October 18th session.

This learning opportunity is subsidized as a result of a grant from Alberta Education to support implementation.

This session focuses on:

TPACK (Technology, Pedagogy and Content Knowledge) - Knowledge for effective technology integration that considers technology, pedagogy and curriculum in multiple contexts.

About the Facilitator

Judi Harris is a professor and the Pavey Family Chair in Educational Technology in the School of Education at the College of William & Mary in Virginia, where she coordinates the Curriculum and Educational Technology doctoral program.

Dr. Harris' research and service focus upon K-12 curriculum-based technology integration and teacher professional development. During the past 30 years of her work in educational computing, she has authored more than 225 research and pedagogical publications about technology integration and teacher professional development. She also co-edited and co-authored the Handbook of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) for Educators (Routledge, 2008), the first scholarly book about TPACK. Judi co-edits a quarterly TPACK e-newsletter and chaired the TPACK special interest group (SIG) and annual conference strand for the international Society for Information Technology in Teacher Education (SITE) for the past four years. She and her colleagues are working on the second TPACK Handbook, which is written for school-based practitioners.