Belle Plaine Professional Development

Today staff members from Belle Plaine and HLV spent the afternoon learning technology skills they will use in the classroom to enhance and support learning.  Sessions staff could attend included Digital Citizenship, Google Forms, Google Sites, and Twitter.  Teachers will use these skills to increase communication with students and parents and provide additional ways to introduce skills and concepts to students in a variety of ways that will appeal to students who all learn in various ways.  Throughout the remainder of the school year, teachers will be designing web-sites, Blogs or Twitter accounts to enhance communication and many will be using Google Forms to assess learning in the classroom.  Some of the staff are already incorporating some of these skills.  It will be very exciting to see the new ways BP teachers use technology to increase the learning of all students.