An ISTE 2014 Presentation: Flipping PD

Meghan Reid and Anita Lesage, pre-service teachers, along with their instructor, Eva Brown, from Red River College in Winnipeg, Canada present a Poster session at ISTE 2014 on Saturday, June 28, 2014, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m., Table 9. Come and learn with them as they share their leading and learning!

Technology, you cannot stop it. Creativity, you should not limit it. Do not let innovation scare you, it will only limit yours and your students’ possibilities. Flipping PD, or Flipping Professional Development, is our mission to create opportunities for every educator and every student to be able to embrace innovation and creativity into their learning and teaching.

Our focus is innovation through technology and global collaboration. An educator’s curriculum is more than just an outcome, it is how that outcome is going to come alive. How are you going to make that outcome become more than just knowledge? Students need more than just knowledge, they also need experience. There is a huge need for educators to acquire technology and global education skills in order to meet the requirements of the Literacy with ICT Continuum–A Model for 21st Century Learning K-12, to deliver ISTE Standards and to give students the education they need as outlined in the Horizon Report. That is where we come in. Teachers must be given time to acquire these skills with just-in-time professional development and not have to do all of the professional upgrading “after hours” on their own time. While many educators devote endless personal hours to learning, this is not always possible for all teachers, so time must be provided for educators to acquire this learning.

We are teaching teachers to infuse technology into any curriculum. We are using experiential learning through student-centered approaches, project based learning models that work. We are lifelong learners and we want to inspire everyone to be lifelong learners. Our goal is to model our lifelong learning to our students, to be on-the-cusp providing the best learning for our students so that they are prepared for jobs that do not yet exist and that they become globally competitive digital citizens. We are growing our passion for leading and learning. Come join us!

Business/Technology students experienced a Mystery Skype–inquiry, student-centered learning, in their ICT and Multimedia class this term.

Thank you to Jonathan Ferber and the eTV Department for creating the video!

Bernie Taronno along with his Intro to Construction Class 2014 take a break from building garden sheds.

All the TEP participants were invited to take their Certificate in Adult Education courses together as a cohort.  The first course, Introduction to Instruction, began mid-January with 17 faculty.  In March, the group will take their second course, Instructional Methods.  More TEP participants will join the second course as a few new faculty members had already taken Introduction to Instruction.  By June, 25 new faculty will have completed three CAE courses together in the first ever CAE/TEP cohort.

September-October 2013 TEP Session – highly interactive sessions draw on the participants’ current and previous experience –

The first group of faculty working through their Certificate of Education as a cohort.  They will complete three CAE courses by June –

Three new faculty, Lee (Piping Trades) , Patrick (Piping Trades)  and Jordan (Deaf Studies), work through a classroom management scenario –

Teacher Education students at Red River College learn to connect and share their learning.

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Teacher Education student, Carl Pfahl, leading the way and innovating education.

Watch the video below to see Eva Brown’s submission to the Educause ELI Annual Meeting on behalf of the Teacher Education Department at Red River College.

2014 Industrial Arts Metalworking Students are ready for welding instruction from Gord Price.

The Technical Vocational class is in the middle of a Cooperative Learning Jigsaw activity, where they are teaching the key elements of Cooperative Learning to one another.

The information session will be followed by questions and answers, along with a tour of the facilities used by Teacher Ed. students during their respective program. Come out and meet the instructors, walk the halls and get the answers to all your questions.