Instructional Technology Coaching Action Plan Template |INDIVIDUAL

Your Name
Sharon Verdu

PERSONAL COACHING STATEMENT
My current VISION of and STRENGTHS as an instructional technology coach is to assist other teachers in my department and discipline area (Health Sciences)
to explore how they can become a facilitator of learning in their classroom.



CDL MOOC-ED Unit



COACHING ACTIVITY

ACTION STEPS

What might you DO/PREPARE for this
coaching activity?

RESOURCES

List ideas, concepts and/or tools
you have explored for this coaching
activity from your weekly learning.


MONITOR EFFECTIVENESS

What evidence might you consider to
evaluate progress for this coaching
activity?


Unit One

Coaching | Stewarding
the Future in Digital
Learning & Teaching

OUTLINE how you will
engage in effective
communication and
collaboration with
those you coach .

1) Begin offering
short tech sessions
once a month on
the technology
byte that the tech
lit team is working
on.
To prepare for the session I need to be
knowledgeable on how to use the
technology tool. I need to be able to
identify ways that the tool might be
used both by the teacher and the
students.
I understand that I need to have
expertise but not act as THE
expert. I need to be able to craft
questions that will lead others to
explore more about what they
need answers to.
One way to evaluate progress is to
identify how many teachers begin to
explore new tech tools.




Unit 1 Reflection | What's one goal you would like to set for yourself the next time you coach (communicate and/or collaborate) with a colleague?
GOAL: Be able to show enthusiasm for the use of PLNs without being overbearing.




CDL MOOC-ED UNIT



COACHING ACTIVITY

ACTION STEPS

What might you DO/PREPARE for this
coaching activity?

RESOURCES

List ideas, concepts and/or tools
you have explored for this coaching
activity from your weekly learning.


MONITOR EFFECTIVENESS

What evidence might you consider to
evaluate progress for this coaching
activity?




2 | Extending Your
Personal Learning
Network | Becoming a
Connected Educator

NOTE any strategies
you plan to employ to
expand your PLN as
well as keep your
current PLN motivated.
How will you coach
others to expand their
learning networks to
meet their professional
development needs?
List any specific steps
or tasks that you might
find useful in your role
as a coach. This may
include planning for
any face to face or
synchronous meetings,
etc.

1) Find three resources to share
with my CTE department that
may be a resource for
professional development needs.
1) I have used Twitter to
participate in a
Twitterchat.
2) I have begun exploring
the use of an Education
board in Pinterest.
3) I have subscribed to an
educators blog that I can
begin reading for ideas.
1) I can document one
idea/blog/article that I found
through Twitter.
2) I could look at who might be
pinning some of my ideas on
Pinterest.




1) I think that this might be a
useful topic to explore in our
tech lit team at school.
Perhaps how we can
incorporate this in the school
over time.
3)

Unit 2 Reflection | In what way(s) did you grow in your relationships and PLNs this week?
I discovered an entire network of people through various sources!! It is almost overwhelming!




CDL MOOC-ED Unit





COACHING ACTIVITY

ACTION STEPS

What might you DO/PREPARE for this
coaching activity?

RESOURCES

List ideas, concepts and/or tools
you have explored for this coaching
activity from your weekly learning.


MONITOR EFFECTIVENESS

What evidence might you consider to
evaluate progress for this coaching
activity?




3 | Exploring
Frameworks | Guiding
Educators to Enhance
and Transform Digital
Learning and Teaching

HOW will you gently
assess the TPACK
/SAMR strengths and
areas of need or
improvement in those
you coach?


What methods will you
use to gather this
information?

What strategies might
you use during coaching
I need to learn more about TPACK and
SAMR.

Then I need to assess myself for areas of
strength and improvement in my own
practice.
I have read all of the resources
provided.

I did a brief search for other
resources.
I need to identify (in writing) five
good resources that will help me to
begin to use TPACK or SAMR.



to help grow others
TPACK?


Unit 3 Reflection | What did you learn about yourself as you explored the TPACK and SAMR models?
I have a lot to learn about these two models.









CDL MOOC-ED Unit





COACHING ACTIVITY

ACTION STEPS

What might you DO/PREPARE for this
coaching activity?

RESOURCES

List ideas, concepts and/or tools
you have explored for this coaching
activity from your weekly learning.


MONITOR EFFECTIVENESS

What evidence might you consider to
evaluate progress for this coaching
activity?




4 | The Four Cs|
Unpacking Digital Age
Skills
DESCRIBE how you
might promote the
implementation of
digital age skills in your
school?

I need to identify simple, short ways to
plant small seeds in the minds of other
teachers in my department.
I have used Animoto in my class
this week as a review tool for
students. The structure of the
assignment allows for students to
be creative, collaborate,
communicate (with each other
and myself as a teacher) and
think critically about what they
have learned so far in the HS2
course.
The number of technology activities
that I introduce from the tech lit
team and how many times a teacher
or teachers use the tool.

Unit 4 | Deep Reflection | What would you like to learn more about, related to the 4Cs?



Examples always help me to understand application. So it would be nice to find resources that show examples that I can relate to since I am a CTE teacher.





CDL MOOC-ED Unit



COACHING ACTIVITY

ACTION STEPS

What might you DO/PREPARE for this
coaching activity?

RESOURCES

List ideas, concepts and/or tools
you have explored for this coaching
activity from your weekly learning.


MONITOR EFFECTIVENESS

What evidence might you consider to
evaluate progress for this coaching
activity?



5 | Digital Citizenship |
Cultivating a Safe and
Responsible Digital
Culture
BRAINSTORM how you
will incorporate and
model Digital
Citizenship in order to
begin to build/
strengthen a culture of
digital innovation.


I would look at different components
for Digital Citizenship and determine
how I would approach the topic with
my students.
I think I would do the same
activity with students using a
Google search for their name. I
want to explore more about the
topic so I could develop a short
unit about Digital Citizenship
aimed towards students.
I would need to keep copies of
articles that I might use with
students. I also would have a unit
that I developed with activities.

Unit 5 Deep Reflection | What was the most challenging part of coaching Digital Citizenship for you ?
I think just beginning to realize the depth of responsibility regarding digital citizenship.












CDL MOOC-ED Unit




COACHING ACTIVITY
ACTION STEPS

What might you DO/PREPARE for this
coaching activity?
RESOURCES

List ideas, concepts and/or tools
you have explored for this coaching
activity from your weekly learning.

MONITOR EFFECTIVENESS

What evidence might you consider to
evaluate progress for this coaching
activity?




6 | Sharpening Your
Instructional Technology
Coaching Skills | Vetting
Digital Tools and
Resources
IDENTIFY a set of
strategies (i.e.,
questions/ checklists/
rubrics, etc.) that you
will share with others
to help build their
capacity to vet their
own selection of tools
and resources.
I would identify a set of rubrics
that might be used by other
teachers.
I like the idea of developing a
spreadsheet that answers the
questions for a selected rubric for
exploring the pros/cons of
selected technology tools
Identify teachers that might be using
certain tools and then show them
what those tools are able to do
beyone what they are using them for.

Unit 6 Deep Reflection | Have you changed any ideas you used to have on how to vet resources?
I have really begun to understand how to effectively evaluate technology tools.





PERSONAL Coaching Statement REVISITED | How has your personal coaching vision evolved from your initial thoughts in Week/Unit One?

My coaching statement has remained the same. But my vision of how I need to proceed with coaching digital technology use has expanded exponentially. I have gotten a lot of
ideas of how to approach people and how to model ideas without being forceful. Sometimes our best salesmen for new technology uses are our students.