Technology Professional Development

Technology Development helps both experienced teachers and new teachers integrate technology into instruction to develop students' higher-level thinking skills and enhance learning.

It is the goal of the Instructional Technology Department to supply our educators with real-world comprehensive staff developments.

Staff Development is viewed as a learning process. It cannot be accomplished in one individual workshop, but rather multiple learning interactions that progress in difficulty and complexity as mastery is accomplished.

Using Apple's Classrooms of Tomorrow research as a framework for the district's staff development, each workshop is categorized. ACOT identifies FIVE stages which educators progress through as they integrate technology into the curriculum.

The district has focused on implementing the Intel® Teach to the Future Program. This program helps both experienced teachers and new teachers integrate technology into instruction to develop students' higher-level thinking skills and enhance learning. Participating teachers receive extensive instruction and resources to promote effective technology use in the classroom. Teachers learn from other teachers how, when, and where to incorporate technology tools and resources into their lesson plans. In addition, they experience new approaches to create assessment tools and align lessons with educational learning goals and standards. The program incorporates use of the Internet, Web page design, and student projects as vehicles to powerful learning.

WCASD teachers have participated in 16,880 hours of Intel training creating:

• 422 Curriculum Units containing:
  • 1.76 GB (1,760,226,148 bytes)
  • 5,066 Files in 4362 Folders