After finishing up my staff meeting sessions and giving feedback to one of the meeting coordinators I was working with, we decided to have a full staff meeting to review each of the technology sessions and present the next sessions for the remainder of the school year. Each of the meeting leaders gave a short overview of their sessions and the outcomes as well as an overview of the upcoming session they would be leading. I decided not to lead another session for a few reasons. First, I was very disappointed in the staff attendance and participation in the meetings. Second, my team is participating in a year long staff meeting on vocabulary and was not able to attend the technology meetings. My principal allowed me to skip these meetings in the first half of the year so that I could lead the technology meetings. I decided to join my team to complete the vocabulary training for the rest of the year.
The meeting went well and all staff signed up for one of the technology sessions. I was happy to hear the principal make a statement about the attendance at these meetings and how we all have a professional responsibility to attend them. I hope this will make a difference in the future.
Since I will not be leading a technology session and my team has not been able to attend the sessions I have been training them on the Mobi and Interwrite Workspace software during our team meetings. This has helped to keep me involved in staff development while including people that I know will benefit from the training. My team is very dedicated to trying new things and learning more about equipment we already have.
Even though I had difficulties through this process it has been a success. The majority of the staff has and will be trained on several different kinds of technology equipment/software. I would like to continue with technology staff development in future years. I have developed a closer relationship with our media specialist through this process and we are looking at ideas for next year.
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