Professional Development Module

Title of Unit
Curriculum Area
Developed By

Web Design using Google

Doc
Professional Development
Mariah Crew

Grade Level

Time Frame

40 minutes

Identify Desired Results (Stage 1)

Content Standards
Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership Teachers continuously improve their professional
practice, model lifelong learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional community
by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources.

Understandings

Essential Questions

Overarching Understanding

Teachers will understand that promoting and

demonstrating the effective use of digital tolls and
resources will

Overarching

What are the key

skills that I need to
know to use google
docs successfully?

Topical

Who will use the

google doc
collaboration tool?

Improve professional practice

Related Misconceptions

Teachers prefer emailing plans back and forth

Knowledge

Skills

Students will know

Students will be able to

-How to use google doc effectively as a collaboration

tool

Access the google document

Log in
Name the lesson
Type in the document at the same
time

Assessment Evidence (Stage 2)

Performance Task Description
Students will be able to create their lesson plan in the google document
Allow students the opportunity to participate in this training to strengthen
Role
their skills in google docs
Audience K-1 teachers
Goal

Teachers will meet in the department chair room after-school

Teachers will have the opportunity to collaborate with each other using
Product/Performance
google docs
Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership Teachers continuously
improve their professional practice, model lifelong learning, and exhibit
Standards leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and
demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources.
Situation

Other Evidence
Teachers will complete a survey
Observation of teachers

Learning Plan (Stage 3)

Where are your students headed? Where
Teachers have a broad range of technical skills levels
have they been? How will you make sure
the students know where they are going?
How will you hook students at the
Show the google doc video
beginning of the unit?
What events will help students experience
- Teachers will explore the essential question
and explore the big idea and questions in
The teachers will be provided with lots of modeling and hands on
the unit? How will you equip them with
practice
needed skills and knowledge?
How will you cause students to reflect and
Teachers will have a task to create and upload their very own lesson
rethink? How will you guide them in
plan and collaborate on the lesson plan
rehearsing, revising, and refining their
work?
How will you help students to exhibit and
Through guided discussion, teachers will ask questions about the
self-evaluate their growing skills,
different things that are using in the google docs
knowledge, and understanding throughout
the unit?
How will you tailor and otherwise
Teachers will be given access to a users guide
personalize the learning plan to optimize
the engagement and effectiveness of ALL
students, without compromising the goals
of the unit?
How will you organize and sequence the
Activities will be broken into three segments.
learning activities to optimize the
1. Hook and introduction
engagement and achievement of ALL
2. Reading and discussion
students?
3. Recall & Reflection
From: Wiggins, Grant and J. Mc Tighe. (1998). Understanding by Design, Association for Supervision and Curriculum
Development ISBN # 0-87120-313-8 (ppk)