Goals:

• Teachers will be comfortable using the XO laptop both on their own and for instructional purposes.
• Teachers will feel confident in their abilities to facilitate learning through the XO laptops.
• Teachers will be familiar with concepts “Building on Background,” “Learning Phases,” and “Scaffolding,” “Integrating Modalities,” and “Graphic Organizers”
• Teachers will have a working knowledge these concepts and be able to implement them in their classroom lessons

Essential Questions:

• How can the XO be used to enhance students’ learning?
• Why is technology literacy an important skill for both students and teachers?
• How can teaching strategies enhance your current styles, views, and ideologies of teaching?
• What is a teaching strategy? How can they be effectively implemented in the classroom?
• How can students act as knowledge-contributors in the classroom?

Enduring Understandings:

• Technology literacy is an important life skill for student success due to globalization.
• Students are knowledge-contributors. Everyone has a voice. (This is our critical pedagogy aspect, because it might challenge what they already hold as a view, which is teacher-fronted pedagogy.)
• By seeing myself as a learner and incorporating new pedagogical techniques, I will become a more effective teacher.

Syllabus and Lesson Plans

*Key: TT = Teacher Trainer HT = Haitian Teacher