PDD Refresher

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PDD Refresher

 

 

Overview

The NM Professional Development Dossier is a given now for teachers advancing up the levels ladder.  Since RETA instructors are key ingredients to many teachers' prepariation of dossiers, it is crucial that we, too, keep learning and growing. This session may clarify, identify, and fortify the basics and beyond of dossier success. 

 

"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn."  John Cotton Dana

 

Objectives

  • Identify dossier success factors  
  • compare correct and incorrect responses to prompts 
  • demonstrate awareness of strand pitfalls
  • explain how to troubleshoot off-target responses
  • interpret prompts in the light of teacher competencies

 

NETS for Teachers

  • 1c. promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.
  • 5b. exhibit leadership by demonstrating a vision of technology infusion, participating in shared decision making and community building, and developing the leadership and technology skills of others.
  • 5d. contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self-renewal of the teaching profession and of their school and community.

 

Tech Requirements

  • Internet access

 

 Resources and Asides 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Activities

 

Introduction - Did You Know?  (15 minutes)

In an informal clicker challenge, you will begin by testing your knowledge of facts and statistics about the NM Professional Development Dossier.  This will just be a way to focus and rev up discussion and point us in the right direction.

               PowerPoint Quiz

 

Activity 2 - You Are Not in Jeopardy! (30 minutes)

Using clickers, you will compete in teams for points in a Reverse-Jeopardy format!  Categories will be Strand Strength, General Info, Sir!, Chromosones (X & Y), Body, Shop, Izzit or Iddinit? and Do's and DETAI (Don't Even Think About It). We will discuss points as we go and glean wisdom from each other.

              Reverse Jeopardy

 

Activity 3 - America's Next Top Dossier (30 minutes)

You will work in rotating groups to critique and correct some common mistakes in dossier preparation.  You will meet for 7 minutes with one group to evaluate one prompt response.  Then, you will move to another group and repeat the process. 

 

  1. Contestant 1
  2. Contestant 2
  3. Contestant 3
  4. Contestant 4

 

Activity 4 - Panel Pro's - (15 minutes)

Participants will volunteer (or be commandeered) to sit on a panel to discuss reactions to common mistakes in the dossier (the last activity), field questions, or give advice. "If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it." Margaret Fuller

 

 

 

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