Kristyn Curran will complete her Educational Technology internship at Waterloo Elementary School in Columbia, Maryland, where she has taught third grade for five years. During the 2014-2015 school year, she will lead professional development sessions for teachers on using Google Apps for Education and create a technology team to design grade-level websites using Google Sites. The professional development will focus on Documents, Forms, Presentations, and Spreadsheets and be held twice monthly before school. Additionally, she will support the technology team to build and manage websites for each grade level K-5 to better communicate with families.
Kristyn Curran will complete her Educational Technology internship at Waterloo Elementary School in Columbia, Maryland, where she has taught third grade for five years. During the 2014-2015 school year, she will lead professional development sessions for teachers on using Google Apps for Education and create a technology team to design grade-level websites using Google Sites. The professional development will focus on Documents, Forms, Presentations, and Spreadsheets and be held twice monthly before school. Additionally, she will support the technology team to build and manage websites for each grade level K-5 to better communicate with families.
Kristyn Curran will complete her Educational Technology internship at Waterloo Elementary School in Columbia, Maryland, where she has taught third grade for five years. During the 2014-2015 school year, she will lead professional development sessions for teachers on using Google Apps for Education and create a technology team to design grade-level websites using Google Sites. The professional development will focus on Documents, Forms, Presentations, and Spreadsheets and be held twice monthly before school. Additionally, she will support the technology team to build and manage websites for each grade level K-5 to better communicate with families.
Kristyn Curran will complete her Educational Technology internship at Waterloo Elementary School in Columbia, Maryland, where she has taught third grade for five years. During the 2014-2015 school year, she will lead professional development sessions for teachers on using Google Apps for Education and create a technology team to design grade-level websites using Google Sites. The professional development will focus on Documents, Forms, Presentations, and Spreadsheets and be held twice monthly before school. Additionally, she will support the technology team to build and manage websites for each grade level K-5 to better communicate with families.
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Kristyn Curran
Fall 2014
Internship Plan Waterloo Elementary School located in Columbia, Maryland will be the sight of my Educational Technology Internship. I am currently a third grade teacher at Waterloo and have been teaching for five years. I have been a member of a few committees at Waterloo but I have not held any leadership positions. This internship will give me the opportunity to support teachers and staff members within my school building as well as improve my leadership and technology skills. During the course of the 2014-2015 school year I plan to support teachers and other staff members in two major areas. As a result of the course work I have completed to this point in the ET program at Loyola, I felt that my school would benefit from professional development regarding the use of Google Applications for Education (GAFE). The GAFE houses many applications that are important and useful for teachers but at my school this free tool provided by Howard County Public Schools is dramatically under appreciated and under utilized. After meeting with my administrators at Waterloo, we felt that the staff would benefit from voluntary focused professional development sessions on the four major areas of the GAFE: Documents, Forms, Presentations, and Spreadsheets. These professional development sessions will be held before school (8:05-8:35), roughly twice a month between September and February (this could change based on the school calendar and other mandatory meetings). The first
meeting of every month will be an introduction to an application within the GAFE, while the second meeting will focus on classroom application and Q&A. In addition to the GAFE training, I will run a technology team at Waterloo. The members of this team will include one staff member from each grade level (K-5). The goal of the technology team will be to create and manage grade level websites using Google Sites. This is new for Waterloo because previously, grades were not required to have websites for parents and students to access. The meeting schedule for this team has not been set, however, a monthly meeting was suggested. During these meetings, I will support members with website design and document uploading. The creation of grade level websites will serve the needs of our school community because families are eager to know more about their childs schoolwork. Based on the courses, research and readings Ive completed thus far in the ET program I believe that I have the skills and pedagogy to make these professional development sessions meaningful for the staff at Waterloo Elementary School but also serve our greater school community.
