SAS+Performance+Area+A

=Planning and Preparation=

Benchmarks: Evidence (2010):
 * Standard A1 - Demonstrating knowledge of current trends in specialty area and professional development **
 * 1) Instructional specialist demonstrates thorough knowledge of specialty area and trends in professional development.
 * Professional Development
 * Apple Leadership Conference-Hong Kong Canadian International School (March 09)
 * Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)-Global Learn Asia Pacific, Malaysia (May 2010)
 * Personal Learning Network (PLN)-Consists of blog feeds, twitter and facebook social networking
 * SAS Professional Development Committee 2009-2010
 * Developed SAS Technology Scope and Sequesnce rubric for SAS staff
 * Continued work on the SAS technology professional development plan
 * Coordinator Atlas Rubicon Curriculum Mapping-Puxi Campus
 * Coordinator Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) testing-Puxi Campus

Benchmarks: Evidence (2010):
 * Standard A2 - Demonstrating knowledge of the school’s program and levels of teacher skill in delivering that program (09/10) **
 * 1) Instructional specialist demonstrates thorough knowledge of the school’s program and of teacher skill in delivering that program.
 * This year, the ES technology integration specialists worked together to rewrite the PreK - 5 technology standards based on the ISTE's NETS(student) technology standards. We worked as a team with our counterpart in Pudong and also met with Alicia to review our changes. We then shared our new standards with the MS and HS integration specialists (pending) and they will use them to revise their standards as appropriate. When these standards are finished, we will post them in Atlas.
 * [|Draft of Tech Standards]
 * [|Technology Crosswalk Document]

Benchmarks: Evidence (2011): Benchmarks: Evidence (2010):
 * Standard A3 - Establishing goals for the instructional support program appropriate to the setting and the teachers served **
 * 1) Instructional specialist’s goals for the instructional support program are clear and are suitable to the situation and the needs for the staff.
 * Tech PD has been offered since day one of the school year. We started with new teacher orientation the week prior to returning staff coming to school. Once staff returned tech PD was delivered team by team.
 * 2 Date Night with Your MAC sessions were offered again this year and they were a smashing success. We had 35+ peoople turnouts at both the fall and winter sessions. As always there was much positive feedback of these events
 * After school tech sessions were held throughout the fall as drop in sessions in the ES desktop lab on Mondays and Thurs. These concluded once attendance decreased to 1-2 people showing up and new and returning teachers were comfortable.
 * MAP Testing PD has been offered. One session served as a teacher introduction to the test, more recently we held a proctor training for teachers to learn how to lead the tests and set up the computers in the testing environment.
 * Ongoing PD is always delivered to teachers on an as-needed basis.
 * Standard A4 - Demonstrating knowledge of resources, both within and beyond the school and district**
 * Standard A4 - Demonstrating knowledge of resources, both within and beyond the school and district**
 * 1) Instructional specialist is fully aware of resources available in the school and district and in the larger professional community for teachers to advance their skills.
 * SAS Professional Development Committee 2009-2010
 * Developed SAS Technology Scope and Sequesnce rubric for SAS staff
 * Continued work on the SAS technology professional development plan
 * SAS Puxi ES Tech Blog

**Standard A5 - Planning the instructional support program, integrated with the overall school program (09/10)** Benchmarks: Evidence (2010):
 * 1) Instructional specialist’s plan is highly coherent, taking into account the competing demands of making presentations and consulting with teachers, and has been developed following consultation with administrators and teachers.
 * SAS Professional Development Committee 2009-2010
 * Developed SAS Technology Scope and Sequesnce rubric for SAS staff
 * Continued work on the SAS technology professional development plan

Benchmarks: Evidence (2011):
 * Standard A6 - Developing a plan to evaluate the instructional support program **
 * 1) Instructional specialist’s evaluation plan is highly sophisticated, with imaginative sources of evidence and a clear path toward improving the program on an ongoing basis.
 * This year we saw a big break though in tech planning. Grades 3 and 5 finally started using one of their planning periods at least once a month to plan around technology integration. In the past planning was done as requested by teachers/ tech facilitator or at planning meetings where there was little time to actually plan and book class times. In the past this led to teachers who were comfortable with tech doing quite a bit and those who weren't doing very little. This has evened the playing field tremendously and has led to teachers integrating technology more consistently throughout the grade level.