I am in the beginning of my final project for my graduate program, my internship. At the end of last school year I came up with my plan and went over it with my principal and graduate adviser. I decided to organize and lead staff development for the fall/winter for my staff. In June I gave out a survey to see what tech topics teachers were interested in and received some decent feedback. With a co-worker of mine we came up with 5 tech sessions, one of which I will be leading. In September of this school year we met with the principal to go over the plan again and then I led a staff meeting to introduce the topics and give a brief explanation of each session. Whew, well that was all just the beginning.
After everyone signed up for the session they were most interested in, I realized that one session had twice at many staff members signed up and we were going to half to split the meeting into two sessions. Thankfully, one of the session leader was flexible enough to take over the second session of website management. Then, the tricky part happened. As I started splitting the group, people emailed me that they would prefer to be in the other group, or they needed to be in a group with a co-worker. I didn't think that was a problem until I tried lay it all out and keep both groups equal. I also discovered so many people picked one topic because they really didn't want to learn anything new. This is frustrating because my whole plan is exactly the opposite, I want everyone to learn something new and create something they can use with this new knowledge. While I understand that many teachers are overwhelmed, it bothers me but doesn't surprise me that the staff feels this way. I finally got it all figured out and sent the list of participants out to the principal.
The first staff meeting is set to begin next week. I have been gathering some tutorial information and creating some documents to introduce my session, the Mobi Interwrite tablet. Unfortunately, I discovered this week that the electronic pens that go with the 2 Mobis I have are not working. I contacted the tech support and we discovered they needed to be replaced and were no longer under warranty. Uhhh! I got in touch with a salesman from the company and it turned out the pens were not very expensive, $38 each and my school had funds to pay for them. Yes, something is working out. I was also able to borrow 2 Mobis from co-workers to use for my meeting. Let's hope the meeting goes relatively well!
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