Professional Development for419 5/6 Business Technology Endorsement

Arkansas Department of Career Education

Day One

• Introduction, Lab Management, Ways Students Cheat Using Technology (1 hour)

• Introduce Frameworks (1 hour)• Reviewing Touch Typing (1 hour)• Online Living (1 hour)• Computer Basics (1 hour)• Ownership/Ethics in Business (1 hour)

Introduction (1 hour)

• This is the Three Days (18 hours) of professional development needed to gain 419 5/6 Business Technology Endorsement

• All 18 hours of Professional Development must be attended to receive a certificate of completion

• This professional development will include the content of 355910 Input Technologies (Grade 5) and 366910 Technology Communications (Grade 6)

• The minimum required amount of time to teach each of these courses is forty minutes per week or its equivalent during the school year

Lab Management

• Teachers must develop different rules for a lab setting• Classroom management must be looked at differently

in a lab setting• Presenter modeling of mini-lesson in a lab• Being a mobile instructor• Setup Edmodo (http://www.edmodo.com/)• Survey to determine the technology skills of the

workshop participants (http://www.fgcu.edu/support/techskills.html)

Ways students cheat using technology

• http://homeworktips.about.com/od/cheating/a/echeating.htm

• http://mashable.com/2012/09/28/students-technology-cheating/

• http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/story/262232/how-students-use-technology-to-cheat

Introduction to Frameworks (1 hour)

• 355910 Input Technologies• 366910 Technology Communications

Reviewing Touch Typing (1 hour)

• Web Based Programs for touch typing– http://www.sense-lang.org/typing/– www.goodtyping.com– http://www.typingweb.com/

• Timed writing test and introduce Gross Words A Minute (GWAM)

• Technique Checklist such as can be found at (e.g., http://www.edu.pe.ca/gray/class_pages/spcain/itc401/keyboarding_technique_sheet.pdf)

• What is a Digital Classroom?• Keyboard Layouts

– http://askatechteacher.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/time-to-start-keyboard-practice/

Online Living (1 hour)

• Sign up for Online Safety Education Kit through http://www.netsmartz.org/kit– http://www.commonsensemedia.org/– http://isafe.org/wp/– http://www.ag.arkansas.gov/programs/schools-ed

ucators-and-communities/keys-to-safety/• Introduce Ann Ware’s TechTips WareHouse at

http://www.techtipswarehouse.com/cba

Computer Basics (1 hour)

• Computer Systems / Storage– http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall

11/cos109/02inside.pdf– http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/s/stordev

i.htm• Operating Systems– http://www.bizymoms.com/computers-and-techn

ology/types-of-operating-systems.html

• File Management– http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~ttspeng/Basic_File_Ma

nagement.pdf

Ownership and Ethics in the Business World (1 hour)

• Copyright (http://www.copyright.gov/)• Plagiarism– http://plagiarism.org/– http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/

01/• Ethics– http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-business/– http://cbe.bentley.edu/

• Activities in frameworks

Day One Homework

• Complete the Digital Literacy component from the Microsoft IT Academy located at http://www.microsoft.com/about/corporatecitizenship/citizenship/giving/programs/up/digitalliteracy/default.mspx

Day Two

• Word Processing (4 hours)• Presentations (2 hours)

Word Processing (2 hours)

• Microsoft Office Training (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training-FX101782702.aspx)

• Review Letter, Memorandum, Report, E-Mail and Table formats (http://www.fbla-pbl.org/data/files/docs/FormatGuide.pdf)

Word Processing (2 hours)

• Demonstrate the use of font, point size, copy and paste, drag and drop, find and replace, spell check, and thesaurus

• Demonstrate margins, alignments, indent, tab stops, line spacing, paragraph settings, and page breaks

• Demonstrate onscreen document layouts• Make tables of information using column headings (e.g.,

authors with titles of books or movies with ratings and actors)

• Create a report, letter, memo, and flyer using word processing skills on any topic

• Use marked up copy to correct a document

Presentations (2 hours)

• Create a presentation for the first day of school, classroom rules, etc. with a minimum of– 10 slides– 2 transitions– 2 animations– 2 graphics– Theme must be changed from the default

• Using one of the following:– http://prezi.com/– http://www.animoto.com/– Apple Keynote– Microsoft PowerPoint

Day Three

• Spreadsheets (3 hours)• Course your students will take next year• Career Technical Student Organizations (1

hour)• Questions/Resources (2 hour)

Spreadsheets (3 hours)

• Demonstrate opening a spreadsheet• Discuss parts of a spreadsheet: active cell, cell, cell

reference, column, label, range, row, value, workbook, and worksheet (http://spreadsheets.about.com/od/excel101/ss/2010-06-26-Parts-Of-The-Excel-2010-Screen.htm)

• Demonstrate entering data: labels, values, and text• Demonstrate alignment, fill, freeze, and sort• Demonstrate creating graphs (i.e., line, pie, bar, and

column

Next Year (1 hour)

• After 366910 Technology Communications your students will take a one-semester class (377910 Information and Communications Technology)

• This course requires an instructor licensed as a secondary business teacher

• This class enhances what is learned in the 5th and 6th grade classes

Career Technical Student Organizations (CTSOs) (1 hour)

• Middle Level– Mid-Level Future Business Leaders of America (Grades 6-9)

• http://www.fbla-pbl.org/web/page/586/sectionid/586/pagelevel/2/fbla_middlelevel.asp

• Contact Sandon Williams at Arkansas Department of Career Education at sandon.williams@arkansas.gov about starting a local chapter

• High School– Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA)

• Most business students• http://www.fbla-pbl.org/

– Distributive Clubs of America (DECA)• Marketing students• http://www.deca.org/

Questions & Answers (2 hour)

• Any questions about the frameworks or the professional development over these three days?

Arkansas Teacher Websites• http://mrspjonesclass.weebly.com/• http://www.arbusinesseducators.com/• http://

www.oncoursesystems.com/school/webpage/11189042/949529• http://www.msd3.org/rwd/faculty/g_deese/keyboarding• http://

teacherweb.com/AR/RuthDoyleMiddleSchool/Cegers-Coleman/newsflash.aspx

• http://www.arkansasteachersandtechnology.com /• http://www.sgilley.com/• https://

sites.google.com/a/pottsvilleschools.org/samanthaprince/web20• http://www.protopage.com/westcott#Untitled/Keyboarding___ CTI

Questions about 419 Endorsement

Contact

Arkansas Department of Career EducationDivision of Business and Marketing

501-682-1768

Questions about adding419 Endorsement to your license

Contact

Arkansas Department of EducationEducator Licensure Unit

501-682-4342