Program Overview
The purpose of the Promising Practices online video library is to visually document the exceptional strategies and techniques educational organizations utilize to manage, support and integrate technology into the classroom. Key to these strategies is the exemplary practices in professional development that assists school staff in sustaining the success and momentum of school and district initiatives driven by promising practices in technology use and management. As this library continues to capture such practices, it is eTech Ohio's desire to continue receiving viable examples of effective practice that enhance the building of new infrastructure, advance inquiry in emerging technologies, build the case for technology by proven results in student achievement and promote innovative professional development communities throughout the State of Ohio.
These video vignettes provide the opportunity for educational staff to share their experiences and exemplary practices in managing technology for an educational organization, integrating technology into the traditional classroom environment, and high-quality professional development with a focus on technology.
The Promising Practices Video Library contains vignettes in the following topical areas:
- Enhancing and changing the work: Testimonies from school staff emphasizes the demonstrative enhancing of student work and the evolution of teacher delivery through the integration of technology.
- Transforming the school environment: Testimonies from school staff explores how the integration and effective use of technology has transformed school environment and culture.
- Empowering teachers and enabling students: Testimonies from school staff focuses on how technology has empowered teachers to delivery hard to teach subjects and enabled students to learn hard to understand content.
- Harnessing greater data-driven decision making: Testimonies from school staff concentrates on harnessing greater data-driven decision making at both the administrative and classroom levels.
- Building greater capacity: Testimonies provided by school staff reveals how technology integration has built a greater capacity for classroom teachers to deliver instruction in differentiated learning situations.
- Preparing student for higher learning and for the future workforce: Testimonies from school staff exhibits how technology prepares students for institutions of higher learning and the 21st century workforce.
- Influencing professional development: Testimonies from school staff displays how technology integration has influenced the nature and quality of professional development delivered to school employees.