When I first started out, I was not really sure what I should develop a professional development program on. So, I started talking to other teachers, and the principal, to see what things they felt that they needed help with. Since I am at a small school (only 10 teachers) it was easy to make this a personalized experience.
Most teachers said that they were pretty familiar with Microsoft Office, or at least as it pertained to anything that they might use it for at this time. However, the one thing that all of them struggled with was how to use the technology that we have available, other than just having their students work on our mandated (and suggested websites).
So, after speaking with all of them and seeing who would actually be interested in a training session, I began to develop a session that would give them some ideas and resources. It includes some basics of PowerPoint, as well as other software that we have on our computers. From there, I went to websites and other tools that they could access for free to use in their teaching in the classroom.
I have not performed my session yet, but I hope that it will be beneficial and that even if they do not immediately implement the things that they learn, that they will feel comfortable coming to me with technology related questions in the future.
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