Student Led Professional Development
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Cultivating Technology Leadership Skills
Creating student tech leaders is a two-fold process. To develop the technical skills necessary to support teachers, support is broken down into units made up of different activities. Themes like hardware support, software, application management, networking, web design, and troubleshooting are taught to the students in a self-paced online course during their class period. Modules are available even outside of the traditional school day to allow for a more self-paced and customized approach to technical education.
The second part of this model involves informal evaluation of students based on their completion of class units and hands-on practice with school hardware. Utilizing the Mouse Squad.org site also helps teachers see which students are “inspired” to learn more about certain niche skillsets that might interest them. These modules include topics such as game design, and robotics, and introductory programming modules. By observing students as they move through this program, those with exceptional initiative are provided “extra opportunities” on campus such as in-class support for teachers, sound and video engineering, and eventually one-on-one support during school PD events.
The second part of this model involves informal evaluation of students based on their completion of class units and hands-on practice with school hardware. Utilizing the Mouse Squad.org site also helps teachers see which students are “inspired” to learn more about certain niche skillsets that might interest them. These modules include topics such as game design, and robotics, and introductory programming modules. By observing students as they move through this program, those with exceptional initiative are provided “extra opportunities” on campus such as in-class support for teachers, sound and video engineering, and eventually one-on-one support during school PD events.