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In an effort to provide meaningful professional development opportunities for our staff, Staci and I created a google form to collect data about the needs of our staff. We asked what day would best to meet (to improve attendance) and what topics they would like covered. We are using this data to create "Teacher Tech Talks" twice a month for 15 minutes after school in the spring.

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Interactive Promethean Board Activities
To make my small group times more interactive I created interactive promethean board games. This gave me the opportunity to vary my level of support. Some students require hand over hand support while other students are able to complete activities independently.

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Students used the listening center to listen to our shared reading story. This gave students an opportunity to interact with the story independently and to hear another reader's portrayal of the story.

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Students utilizing the pen feature of active inspire to trace numbers.  The students counted the number of chocolate chips on a cookie, then I used the highlighter to write the number that they counted to and they traced it with the pen.  Some students were able to do this independently while some needed hand over hand support.  One student was able to do this activity without the guide of the highlighter.  It was a fun and engaging lesson that was easily differentiated.

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We conducted out first PD for our staff on January 31st at Overbrook CDC. We focused on the basics of using the Promethean board to help teaching assistants to feel comfortable when the teacher is out and to give teachers some new tips and tricks to make their use of the Promethean board faster and easier. We had 10 participants (of our school with 7 teachers) who really enjoyed the PD.

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During circle time, my students engage with the morning message by moving the days of the week and the weather into our morning message template.

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Samantha Yates
sfyates@greenville.k12.sc.us
PreK Sped

I would like to implement a monthly technology PD for teachers at Overbrook to introduce new technology or to help them be more comfortable with the technology they are already using.