Problems+and+Solutions

__**Category: Schedule/Time:**__ Meaningful professional development that begins with ideas then follows with a few hours for them to develop those ideas for an upcoming topic/unit. Common planning periods More teacher prep time Longer school day, year, Inservice training Administrative buy in

Our Suggestions:
 * Collaboration with district and school based administration to plan professional development (team)
 * Develop a team which would include professional staff to plan professional development
 * Establish a full-time coach to support the school based efforts
 * Creativity with scheduling to allow for release time and collaboration between teachers
 * Collaboration days through the IUs to support personal professional development

__**Communication:**__
 * Monthly newsletter to parents
 * Webinar/podcasts with onsite alternative training for parents on various issues
 * Monthly meetings with local business, administration, teachers and students
 * During inservice day offer a fair to the community, school board and administration on what is going on in your classroom. Show off your projects

Our Suggestions:
 * Invite PDE mentors and/or TIMs to visit
 * Institute a job shadow day where teachers shadow IT and IT shadows a teacher

__**Professional Development:**__ -Administrative Technology training through use of admin boot camps, professional development and conference attendance. -More technology specific in-service days -Online PD and act 48 credit for PD -Technology professional learning communities
 * Model Lessons from 'master' teacher
 * Professional development day to plan collaboration and followup
 * Use Faculty meetings & department meetings to develop collaboration opportunities & share best practices
 * 'Train the teacher' model
 * Provide 'canned' presentations to spread topics to avoid re-inventing the wheel

__**Staffing:**__
 * Districts should have a full time technology coach encouraged and funded by PDE.
 * Allow teachers to visit and experience more progressive classrooms
 * Coach given administrative authority for curricular and professional development decision making.

Our Suggestions:
 * Full time coach
 * Higher technology employees that have an education background